Comments Thread For: Bob Arum reluctant to place Teofimo Lopez-Subriel Matias on PPV

[DClefthook]

We POLICE what we want to police. We don't police what we don't want to police. Period!

[Sheikh]

If they did that the numbers would be awful. If you're going to do pay-per-view it has to be cheap no more than 20 bucks but anyways this fight is not at that level

[maguirre]

Poor Bob. I feel for him.

It's not only him brother. The ppv numbers released by PBC fans are fake. What makes you think a ppv buyer would prefer to buy $70-$100 over something cheaper?

[BlackRobb]

Ole Hook Nose should blame greed, not piracy. Fewer people are willing to pay $80 for a PPV that may or may not live up to hype. Times are tough now. Three bags of groceries or a crappy fight on PPV is not much of a choice for most people.

[BirdSong]

most people buy things in a sale as in give them a price reduction as an incentive to buy is a 25 dollar ppv not an option here????

[BrankoB]

I can't get my head around the idea that the Superbowl, Stanley cup final etc, etc,etc are not PPV. But in boxing a run of the mill fight should be at an exorbitant PPV price in the mind of Bob Arum and others. Get your act together and get sponsors and sell seats like all the other sports do. In my view it would be impossible to be a boxing fan and see most of the fights without "stealing" PPVs.
So, if PPV's are well policed I will just quit watching. That would be cutting off your nose to spite your face Mr Arum.

You are right. It would be impossible to be a boxing fan, see all the fights you want to see and pay the ppv money they are asking. It does not compute.

In the last 20 years, two significant things have changed. Dodgy, low quality, unreliable streams have become a lot more watchable - quality is better, they stay up for a while before you have to reload.

More ordinary shows like the proposed one are on ppv and they are asking for way too much money because boxing divas are demanding too much money and refusing to fight each other for less.

So the outcome is this - people stop paying $200 or $300 for seats where you cannot see any decent action anyway, they stop paying $60 or $80 for good quality streams and start watching everything for free. If as Turki suggests, they start selling everything for $20, many, many more people would pay the price to watch good quality, reliable stream on their large screen TV rather than dodgy streams in front of their PC.

[PBR Streetgang]

It's not only him brother. The ppv numbers released by PBC fans are fake. What makes you think a ppv buyer would prefer to buy $70-$100 over something cheaper?

I was being sarcastic (we should have a sarcasm font on this site); I have no sympathy Ol' Bob (nor any other promoter).

PPV has gotten out of hand. I will purchase them from time to time but the stars have to align for that to happen (either good price point or stacked cars on an evening when I don't have cheaper alternatives). They rarely align.

[maguirre]

I can't get my head around the idea that the Superbowl, Stanley cup final etc, etc,etc are not PPV. But in boxing a run of the mill fight should be at an exorbitant PPV price in the mind of Bob Arum and others. Get your act together and get sponsors and sell seats like all the other sports do. In my view it would be impossible to be a boxing fan and see most of the fights without "stealing" PPVs.
So, if PPV's are well policed I will just quit watching. That would be cutting off your nose to spite your face Mr Arum.

I don't know why you're focusing on Mr Bob Arum alone. His ppv prices are not even "exorbitant" compared to PBC's. He's also been suggesting that prices be cut even lower. Nobody else does. And he rarely does ppv fights and prefers to do it by subscription. That's why reports of ppv numbers exceeding 100,000 (100k) is hard to digest. It may even be drastically lower. I don't even know why lots of people still believe in reported numbers like 300,000 to 800,000.

[losetodo]

Boxing is

[losetodo]

Boxing is dead
, period. Got to admit it