Worst PPV in the history of the world?

[oliverfennell]

This was PPV? Really? Jesus wept.

http://boxrec.com/show_display.php?show_id=613828

[Brute]

If people will pay to watch it they will keep doing it.

[Beltane]

Boxa and camp Khodar's mission statement is to "never give a sucker an even break" and sadly some poor folk and clubs still purchased this PPV dross.

Eventually the PPV well will run dry for camp Khodar as more and more people wise up.

[oliverfennell]

Christ, how much "wising up" is required when you have do no more than look at the bare records to see this event barely deserved a TV broadcast of any kind, let alone a PPV.

[hearns]

This was PPV? Really? Jesus wept.

http://boxrec.com/show_display.php?show_id=613828

Briggs v Green was pretty bad. Or do we only bag Nasser/Mundine promotions. If dumbasses keep paying to see these events then they deserve what they get. Some people actually pay to see Wrestling. Iknow people who watch Home and Away and Neighbours.
Someone made a quid the other night, we can only hope the guys getting punched in the head got their fair share.

[Hounddawg]

This was PPV? Really? Jesus wept.

http://boxrec.com/show_display.php?show_id=613828

Briggs v Green was pretty bad. Or do we only bag Nasser/Mundine promotions. If dumbasses keep paying to see these events then they deserve what they get. Some people actually pay to see Wrestling. Iknow people who watch Home and Away and Neighbours.
Someone made a quid the other night, we can only hope the guys getting punched in the head got their fair share.

Yeah but everyone's sick of that ol chestnut, and the undercard was very decent, how do you come to the conclusion that they're in the same mix, or deserve to be mentioned in the same breath, 1 was potentially a great, great card before the washup, and another looked and was the worse looking matched PPV card that i've ever seen.

A spade is a spade in my book, and i would still have chosen to watch Green vs Briggs and all of it's 29 seconds then give some tool bag who can't fight a lick any encouragement to continue in a sport that he has no business being in.

So whats your point.

[adamheight]

heard from a very good source this promotion did very good PPV numbers, especially in NZ. plus the door did ok at 3,000 aswell. someone on another forum said there were only 1,000 in attendance. Anyone who was there would know it was a lot more than that.

[Marlin]

They are notorious for handing out free tickets though, and most of the fighters are paid in tickets.

[jasonb]

I couldn't tell you exactly how many people were there, but I would estimate a couple thousand. I heard....again...only heard this from another promoter who was talking to someone I was seated by, that only a few hundred tickets were sold and they gave out almost 2000 tickets. The PPV numbers were supposedly very good....60,000 buys I believe is what was mentioned to me.

Oz was great. And I have to say that Alex is the nicest fighter I have ever met that I was set to fight. Someone told me that the Samoans are all like that....super nice, and then they try to kill you. lol

[Rogue]

heard from a very good source this promotion did very good PPV numbers, especially in NZ. plus the door did ok at 3,000 aswell. someone on another forum said there were only 1,000 in attendance. Anyone who was there would know it was a lot more than that.

NZ are full of suckers.... easy sell and given the amount of bull shit main stream media cook up about anyone who is muscly and an all black- wanting to box.... cash cow bling bling $$$$$$

[hearns]

Quote: " 1 was potentially a great". Before the fight, Lewis refused to train Briggs, he told Briggs "Mate it's over, in your state i can't have any thing to do with this fight". Fenech walked away when he saw Briggs getting KOed in sparring sessions. When Briggs approached Mundine and Nasser for a "payday'' they told him not until you get better.The NSW authorities refused to allow the fight on doctors advice. Tabcorp suspended betting on the fight after a flood of money betting on a first round KO. Are you getting the picture yet?

The Topic is Worst ppv in the history of the world. Now you may have enjoyed the 29 second debacle..good for you, as i said some people pay to watch WWE.

Quote: "some tool bag who can't fight a lick any encouragement to continue in a sport that he has no business being in"........In the 1960s we used to go to Sydney Stadium to watch a mate Les Hayes fight prelims. Les was the best streetfighter i ever saw, but a very ordinary boxer. He played League for Eastern Suburbs and liked to test himself at boxing as well. Footballers have been dabbling in boxing well before you were born. Do you really think SBW fights because he needs the money. He knocked back 2 mill so he could be an All Black FFS.
MY POINT: Answering the topic.... Worst PPV in the history of the world?..... Mine is Green v Briggs. 29 seconds of absolute bullshit. A fight that was never ever going to last 3 minutes.

What's your point? Apart from being a hater and bagging anything with Mundine attatched to it.

[Hounddawg]

It was a statement, not a question???? Ollie is stating that it's the worst PPV in the history of the world, and i agree. I could have told you who was going to win every fight, IMO thats not a PPV event.

You brang the focus on Green, not me, i simply pointed to the fact that while the main was a debacle, it's undercard was far more worthy than the entire card that was on offer the other night. You are a Mundine supporter????? You should really fit in here mate

Thanks for the info on league boys, i myself played a fair bit of League, and as a kid did both boxing and League, if not for the Ol man filling my head with shitt like Boxing's dead, no money in it,future in it, I might have continued, i've attempted to go back a couple of times since a 10 year layoff of contact sport, being still only 31, but smoke close to 30 a day these days, while i figure i might win the first round, i think i'd be farked(Carl Webb style) for the other 3

My point is why compare Boxa to Green Machine, it comes across as a lack of knowledge, the 2 ain't even the same ball park, but people like yourself keep comparing them. And i have no problems admitting that Mundine and Khoder are a plague on boxing, and will turn far more people of the sport here, than bring people to the sport, you can hate on Green Machine all you want, but if all you have is Briggs, shouldn't you be mad at Briggs, instead of Green, all evidence supplied by yourself clearly points the blame squarely on Briggs, and i already read the same statements months a go and was able to determine that 1 mate clearly took advantage of another mate........case closed.

If you would like i could stick both parties last 5 cards up on the forum in contrast, for both you and myself to disect, and determine if they belong together in the same sentence?

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[hearns]

My bad, always thought a question mark after a statement meant asking a question.
My tip for the next Boxa promotion is, sell every thing you own,borrow every dollar you can and get on to Fightbet and clean up, beats working.
A Mundine Supporter? First met Tony and Lyn over thirty years ago. I respect Tony greatly and as a result I have always been prepared to cut Anthony some slack. He makes me cringe with some of his statements but i always thought the kid had talent to burn from day one.
Not a Green Machine hater, I was dissapointed when Danny took on the Briggs fight when he knew the result,
for mine Briggsy is a warrior and deserved not to go out in that fashion.

Not really interested in debating who has the better promotion resume, I would rather you try to remember what Australian was doing PPV promotions 10 years ago when most free to air fights featured imported opponents with un pronouncable christian and surname and Aussie boxing was on it's knees.

[Hounddawg]

Yeah I know, Kostya Tszyu kept boxing alive thru those bleak years.They were the days when you would go to a pub on a sunday arvo and it felt like a friday night in the CBD......it was packed.

Got to love Kostya

[caveman]

kostya was a true champ,thats y places were packed, the thing is,he still has the respect of everyone for being the great fighter he was,others will never have that feeling

[oliverfennell]

The Topic is Worst ppv in the history of the world. Now you may have enjoyed the 29 second debacle..good for you, as i said some people pay to watch WWE.

At least with the WWE you get a guaranteed 3 hours of entertainment and, while not a sport, it does boast the best in the world at what they do. Not a single boxer on that card could claim to be that.

[oliverfennell]

My bad, always thought a question mark after a statement meant asking a question.

Yes, it was a question, because knowing this sport I wouldn't be surprised if there had been a worse one somewhere in the world. I certainly can't think of one, though.

And I back Hounddawg in that the Green-Briggs comparison is no good. So you're saying that was a crap PPV because the main event lasted less than a round? Well the main event of this one only lasted a round, so what's your point?

[Brute]

The Topic is Worst ppv in the history of the world. Now you may have enjoyed the 29 second debacle..good for you, as i said some people pay to watch WWE.

At least with the WWE you get a guaranteed 3 hours of entertainment and, while not a sport, it does boast the best in the world at what they do. Not a single boxer on that card could claim to be that.

Don't you mean 3 hours of pantomime including the costumes?

[adamheight]

oliver please tell me u have never paid for WWE on PPV?

[oliverfennell]

The Topic is Worst ppv in the history of the world. Now you may have enjoyed the 29 second debacle..good for you, as i said some people pay to watch WWE.

At least with the WWE you get a guaranteed 3 hours of entertainment and, while not a sport, it does boast the best in the world at what they do. Not a single boxer on that card could claim to be that.

Don't you mean 3 hours of pantomime including the costumes?

And what are movies?