Originally posted by Jsmooth9876
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Boxing fans don't know **** about business.
People say this type of dumb **** all the time for any PPV they don't see getting 500k or sometimes even 1M PPV buys. But the reality is that if you incentive the fighters purses via a reasonable guaranteed + points on buys and frugally market the fight according to your expectations of what the fight can do in revenue its probably not so hard to break even or make a profit on a lower level PPV like Crawford vs Postol. I doubt enough money is going to be spent on Crawford vs Postol for it to bomb.
When you really run into trouble with PPV's is when you have a high guaranteed purse & the fight doesn't do good PPV numbers. Manny vs Tim III would be the perfect example & I believe the rumor is (via Steve Kim, who's a TR right hand man) Bob lost $10M on that fight due to the disastrous combo of a high guarantee for Manny + low PPV numbers.
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Originally posted by Mr.Fantastic View PostGood!! They shouldn't be paying millions and millions of dollars for fights. It's the boxers and the promoters that are asking for a lot these days.
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Originally posted by Eff Pandas View PostBoxing fans don't know **** about business.
People say this type of dumb **** all the time for any PPV they don't see getting 500k or sometimes even 1M PPV buys. But the reality is that if you incentive the fighters purses via a reasonable guaranteed + points on buys and frugally market the fight according to your expectations of what the fight can do in revenue its probably not so hard to break even or make a profit on a lower level PPV like Crawford vs Postol. I doubt enough money is going to be spent on Crawford vs Postol for it to bomb.
When you really run into trouble with PPV's is when you have a high guaranteed purse & the fight doesn't do good PPV numbers. Manny vs Tim III would be the perfect example & I believe the rumor is (via Steve Kim, who's a TR right hand man) Bob lost $10M on that fight due to the disastrous combo of a high guarantee for Manny + low PPV numbers.
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Originally posted by Jsmooth9876 View PostFking HBO couldn't pony up the money for this to be on their regular channel now loads of people are gonna miss a hell of a fight. Who the heck is gonna order this besides the hardest of hardcore fans? Boxing is a fking train wreck... Politics,Ducking,mismatches,and cheap networks killing the sport
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Originally posted by Jsmooth9876 View PostYeah now we gotta pay $50 for a fight that we used to get for our regular subscription to HBO... They should have put Ward-Brand on PPV and paid for Crawford-Postal lol...
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Originally posted by Mr.Fantastic View PostI'm not paying for it. Boxers like Crawford and promoters like Arum deserve a flop if they're going to be asking tons of money. I love boxing but I'm tired of the shit it's pulling.
You have clear #1 and #2 in the division, both undefeated, fighting for a unified championship.
Arum is hopking for only 75K PPVs to break even. If a fight this good can't get 100K, then the sport is ran by casuals.
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