Comments Thread For: The Upside of Pay Per View

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By Cliff Rold - This weekend, we get the latest installment of what are now annual major pay boxing shows on Mexican holiday dates. Cinco De Mayo and Mexican Independence Day weekends are, for boxing fans, dates circled on the calendar...
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[Bronx2245]

Boycott the Canelo, Pacquiao, and Cotto PPVs. If the fighters aren't fighting who you want to see, stop buying their fights! The best fights of this year have not been PPV fights! Thurman vs. Porter was on network TV! Why should I have to pay for Crawford vs. Postol or Canelo vs. Smith, especially since I'm already an HBO subscriber? Canelo vs. Smith is no better than GGG vs. Brook, and I doubt it measures up to Salido vs. Vargas! BOYCOTT!

[MDPopescu]

Boycott the Canelo, Pacquiao, and Cotto PPVs. If the fighters aren't fighting who you want to see, stop buying their fights! The best fights of this year have not been PPV fights! Thurman vs. Porter was on network TV! Why should I have to pay for Crawford vs. Postol or Canelo vs. Smith, especially since I'm already an HBO subscriber? Canelo vs. Smith is no better than GGG vs. Brook, and I doubt it measures up to Salido vs. Vargas! BOYCOTT!

I simply can't: I live outside U.S. and I have to watch these fights on streams anyway...

[Bronx2245]

I simply can't: I live outside U.S. and I have to watch these fights on streams anyway...

Do you have to pay for those streams? If not, then stream on brother. But if you're buying streaming from GBP, then please don't!

[World Champion?]

Boycott the Canelo, Pacquiao, and Cotto PPVs. If the fighters aren't fighting who you want to see, stop buying their fights! The best fights of this year have not been PPV fights! Thurman vs. Porter was on network TV! Why should I have to pay for Crawford vs. Postol or Canelo vs. Smith, especially since I'm already an HBO subscriber? Canelo vs. Smith is no better than GGG vs. Brook, and I doubt it measures up to Salido vs. Vargas! BOYCOTT!

Well said, let's see what happens after this week.

[Bronx2245]

Well said, let's see what happens after this week.

If Canelo nets better than 500K, the PPVs will continue!

[Vitar]

Save your money for feasty Kovalev-Ward. Boycott the junky PPV.

[-Kev-]

I don't even know if i'm going to stream this, that's how bad it is. What makes it so bad is the drop in challenge i'm used to seeing Canelo in. Canelo is so young and has fought so many names already, that fighting a no name hurts him at this point

[Scipio2009]

Speak how you feel, I'm not buying the PPV but I am heading out with my brothers, paying $60 at the door ($20 a head), and enjoying the fight at my usual sports bar (Rosado-Monroe is an okay fight, "JoJo" Diaz is on the bill, and Alvarez-Smith should end up being a good fight for however long it lasts).

After the fight, it'll be time to hit a club or just bar hop.

[Scipio2009]

Boycott the Canelo, Pacquiao, and Cotto PPVs. If the fighters aren't fighting who you want to see, stop buying their fights! The best fights of this year have not been PPV fights! Thurman vs. Porter was on network TV! Why should I have to pay for Crawford vs. Postol or Canelo vs. Smith, especially since I'm already an HBO subscriber? Canelo vs. Smith is no better than GGG vs. Brook, and I doubt it measures up to Salido vs. Vargas! BOYCOTT!

Golovkin-Brook is a much worse matchup than Alvarez-Smith, and that's without much question (Liam Smith isn't a bum, both fighters are basically going to walk into the ring the same size, and both guys come forward to fight).

Funny thing about boycotts though is that I'd see it as being fair to guess that you weren't on here, calling for a boycott of Golovkin-Lemieux though. ($100 ticket to both event and, without much question, this weekend's Alvarez show is better value that the Golovkin PPV)