Comments Thread For: Golovkin's Promoter Rejects Talk of PPV Doing Poorly

[Cinci Champ]

does that also apply for the deontay wilder bashing? or its just "haters" when triple g is on the hot seat?

i like triple g. whatever is said is usually directed at those around him, he doesn't even talk.

but when posters clown wilder for being a can crusher, do you defend him? if not why.

ya sorry no one is falling for the ggg is clueless crap like everyone wanted to believe with manny he knows exactly what his team is saying and his team is telling him exactly what to say even down to him saying big drama show

[Progrssive_Jedi]

I love people are hung up over PPV numbers

If PPV was a mark of Boxing greatness, the Floyd Mayweather Jr. Would be hands down the Best Ever, and not by a little, by a lot. He would be twice as good as anyone else.

Alas, people box in the ring.

And although GGG isn't pulling big PPV yet, he is well liked and he is a star.

Cross over appeal in this new PPV market isn't gonna be easy.

But GGG has a good shot at pulling it off.

He just needs to keep getting those wins,meet those belts, and every time an A-listed ducks him, plaster that **** all over the Internet.

does that also apply for the deontay wilder bashing? or its just "haters" when triple g is on the hot seat?

i like triple g. whatever is said is usually directed at those around him, he doesn't even talk.

but when posters clown wilder for being a can crusher, do you defend him? if not why.

Are people trying to avoid him like the plauge. There is a difference when you are a guy who is feared and you can't get the so called champs to fight you (you have to get the sanctioning body to mandate it), and when you choose to fight b fighters.

I don't know a whole lot about Wilder, but if he is avoided like GGG, then of course he gets a pass. You can't make cowards fight him.

No one is asking Canelo to go to SMW or LHW to fight guys, although he rehydrated to 170.

I wish the Golovkin fans would stop crying. U guys asked for this. Now ur acting like a buncha *****es. Smh.

STFU. The is nothing to cry over. I'm happy as ****.

GGG is rising up.

And fear alone may be enough for him to unify an entire weight class.

How many guys have unified 4 belts without breaking a sweat.

Ideall these cowards would fight him, but GGG has got might ****ers scared.

Guys who fight him all have something to gain, but nothing to lose.

[vitali1999]

If Golovkin spray painted him self black and won all his fights by decision instead of knockouts then he would generate over a million ppv buys everytime. But he's not a sell-out. Poser. Hail to the new king

[Scipio2009]

I don't know why people the Floyd fanatics were acting like this was such a flop even at 100k. The budget was so low they wouldn't have lost that much money anyway.

.... counting all of the fighter's purses, K2 was in the hole nearly $4m. You add in the costs of renting the venue (MSG), the marketing budget for the promotion, licensing/promoting costs, etc and you're easily in the hole over $5m before bringing any money back in.

100k PPV buys, based on the rough guesses about PPV splits, puts $2.5m into the pot. 21k tickets sold at MSG (notice how no one is actually announcing what the actual gate was) is said, by K2, to have added $1m to the pot.

Even with that, the show is still $1.5m short of a potential break-even point. (doubt that the international TV rights for a 17:1 fight were all that high, and I doubt that sponsors were beating down K2's doors either).

[wlliam]

I support GGG and im a big fan but no way in he11 was i gonna cough for a fight that belongs on regular HBO..me not buying the PPV was my way of saying "fk off HBO!" lol

The thing that bothers me is their model of starving fans from the fights we want to see but expect us to pay for those matchups...fk that. IMO HBO may have gotten a little desperate rushing GGG onto PPV, sure they have CaneloCotto upcoming but really no big fights of that magnitude at least for awhile. GGG vs the winner will do decent. KovWard is a big fight but i doubt itll pull in big #s its a big fight but it really shudnt be on PPV, i feel thatll be a similar case where they force that into PPV and do meager #s. The PPV well looks to be drying up for HBO for the time being. Thats actually good for the fan dont get me wrong im strictly talkn about the PPV market, HBO has been putn on the more significant, quality matchups this year.

[wlliam]

.... counting all of the fighter's purses, K2 was in the hole nearly $4m. You add in the costs of renting the venue (MSG), the marketing budget for the promotion, licensing/promoting costs, etc and you're easily in the hole over $5m before bringing any money back in.

100k PPV buys, based on the rough guesses about PPV splits, puts $2.5m into the pot. 21k tickets sold at MSG (notice how no one is actually announcing what the actual gate was) is said, by K2, to have added $1m to the pot.

Even with that, the show is still $1.5m short of a potential break-even point. (doubt that the international TV rights for a 17:1 fight were all that high, and I doubt that sponsors were beating down K2's doors either).

gawd! Who cares!?

[SchoolTheseCats]

If Golovkin spray painted him self black and won all his fights by decision instead of knockouts then he would generate over a million ppv buys everytime. But he's not a sell-out. Poser. Hail to the new king

Big drama show, I thought casuals love knockouts and only tuned in to see floyd lose? So they tuned in because he black and decisions everyone? Face it he not as hyped as y'all claimed he was taking over the sport as y'all claimed and going have to step up his competition and venture out that deada$$ mw division

[Scipio2009]

gawd! Who cares!?

Golovkin supposedly being this massive star was why a fight with Andre Ward wasn't worth considering, and also why a fight against Erislandy Lara wasn't worth their time, or why Golovkin is unwilling to give up anything for a possible fight against the Cotto-Canelo winner.

The fact that Golvokin's big PPV coming out party was unable to even pull 100k PPV homes (while also generating a gate that K2 has failed to feel confident enough to actually announce) deads all of that talk.

Golovkin is a 33-year old career middleweight, whom HBO has committed 3 years and 9 boxing broadcasts to, who has shown himself to not be a draw (and will likely never be a draw, tbh).

Golovkin is in no position to call any shot, and it's about time that people acknowledge it.

[Eastlos]

Truth be told, Lil G PPV numbers hurt his @ss. Canelo bend over backwards to fight Cotto why does 3G things he won't have to do the same? A side dictates the terms of who they fight is known fact if Lil G thinks he doesn't have to abide by them then forget him. Canelo doesn't need Lii G is the other way around. The Middleweight division doesn't have **** besides Canelo n Cotto for big money PPV and if 3G think he's bigger then call him bluff dude brings nothing to the table his PPV numbers prove that ****, *** him and his big drama show

[zzat]

People can say they don't care about numbers all they want but these days we hear a lot fighters say things like:

• "Boxing is a business"
• "He doesn't bring anything to the table"

So, when a fighter like GGG sells 150K on PPV it's disappointing.

Also, stop justifying this flop by bringing up other flops.