Boxing PPV's in 2016

[Ruthless-RKO]

That's a wrap..

April 9, 2016 – Pacquiao-Bradley III: ~400K PPV buys
May 7, 2016 – Alvarez-Khan: ~450K-600K PPV buys
July 23, 2016 – Crawford-Postol: 50K-60K PPV buys
September 17, 2016 – Alvarez-Smith: >~300K PPV buys
November 5, 2016 – Pacquiao-Vargas: ~300K PPV buys
November 19, 2016 – Ward-Kovalev – 160,000 PPV buys

[jujigatame]

Hopefully this means we get Kovalev/Ward II on standard HBO. They must have taken a bath on that PPV considering they had to pay out $7m in guaranteed purses for the main event, plus whatever other costs there were in putting the card on. I just hope Ward doesn't price himself out of the rematch now that it's obvious the fight isn't as huge a moneymaker as they thought.

Canelo and Pacquiao (and Mayweather if he unretires) are the only guys who can still draw on PPV. If Floyd stays retired, GGG/Canelo and MAYBE something like Pac/Thurman or Pac/Crawford are the only fights for 2017 that could do a big buyrate.

[Boxing Prospect]

Time to accept the PPV model is dead, huge money paydays are a thing of the past and the model of just whacking stuff on PPV has canabalised it's entire audience.

[ValMar]

Time to accept the PPV model is dead, huge money paydays are a thing of the past and the model of just whacking stuff on PPV has canabalised it's entire audience.

Excuse me, I can not agree with you. Can you imagine Joshua vs Fury ? It would be over a million PPV.

[Ruthless-RKO]

let's not forget Golovkin-Brook did over 500k here in the UK. I think the big fights can be made, and those are the fights that will draw. This year was supposed to be GGG/Canelo, easily over 1m buys. Khan/Brook in the UK easily does over 1m buys in the UK.. Wilder/AJ + or Wilder/Fury just about breaks the million mark. GGG/Ward would do 500k + IMO.

Although not talked about much, Box Office UK is ahead of HBO and Showtime ppv

[ValMar]

These fights would make more than 500 000 (in UK), surely :
Joshua-Haye
Joshua-Klitschko
Joshua-Parker
Joshua-Ortiz
Joshua-Povetkin
Joshua-Wilder
Haye-Parker
Haye-Wilder
Haye-Povetkin
Haye-Ortiz
Bellew-Usyk
Golovkin-Saunders
Golovkin-Eubank
Brook-Alvarez
Brook-Pacquiao
Brook-Khan
Brook-Thurman
Brook-Spence
Flanagan-Lomachenko

If Tyson Fury is back, you can expect at least three fights would make more than 1 million.

[mullenman]

These are awul numbers compared to McGregor ppv numbers. Time for real 50-50 fights where people want the win by knockout and not this boring Floyd and ward snozzze fests

[greg]

..never considered these numbers important, relevant..never compared them..

[SaadOffTheDeck]

Hopefully this means we get Kovalev/Ward II on standard HBO. They must have taken a bath on that PPV considering they had to pay out $7m in guaranteed purses for the main event, plus whatever other costs there were in putting the card on. I just hope Ward doesn't price himself out of the rematch now that it's obvious the fight isn't as huge a moneymaker as they thought.

Canelo and Pacquiao (and Mayweather if he unretires) are the only guys who can still draw on PPV. If Floyd stays retired, GGG/Canelo and MAYBE something like Pac/Thurman or Pac/Crawford are the only fights for 2017 that could do a big buyrate.

Doubtful the fighters would cut their pay. I don't think Jay z cares about making money. If he did. Occasionally showing his face would be a start.

[klitoris]

The real reason is that boxing PPVs in North America are overpriced.
Paying $70 for Kovalev and Ward is too much even for hardcore boxing fans.

[SaadOffTheDeck]

The real reason is that boxing PPVs in North America are overpriced.
Paying $70 for Kovalev and Ward is too much even for hardcore boxing fans.

I bought it, but it's my last one. I spend $60 a month on the UFC and they offer a much better product.

[bigman1968]

These fights would make more than 500 000 (in UK), surely :
Joshua-Haye
Joshua-Klitschko
Joshua-Parker
Joshua-Ortiz
Joshua-Povetkin
Joshua-Wilder
Haye-Parker
Haye-Wilder
Haye-Povetkin
Haye-Ortiz
Bellew-Usyk
Golovkin-Saunders
Golovkin-Eubank
Brook-Alvarez
Brook-Pacquiao
Brook-Khan
Brook-Thurman
Brook-Spence
Flanagan-Lomachenko

If Tyson Fury is back, you can expect at least three fights would make more than 1 million.

Joshua will get 500,000 ppv fighting me-))))

[ValMar]

These fights would make more than 500 000 (in UK), surely :
Joshua-Haye
Joshua-Klitschko
Joshua-Parker
Joshua-Ortiz
Joshua-Povetkin
Joshua-Wilder
Haye-Parker
Haye-Wilder
Haye-Povetkin
Haye-Ortiz
Bellew-Usyk
Golovkin-Saunders
Golovkin-Eubank
Brook-Alvarez
Brook-Pacquiao
Brook-Khan
Brook-Thurman
Brook-Spence
Flanagan-Lomachenko

If Tyson Fury is back, you can expect at least three fights would make more than 1 million.

Joshua will get 500,000 ppv fighting me-))))

Me, too..........

[SaadOffTheDeck]

Joshua could be the biggest star in boxing and he's unknown in the states.

[ValMar]

Joshua could be the biggest star in boxing and he's unknown in the states.

He is well known in UK, quite enough for him.

[SaadOffTheDeck]

Joshua could be the biggest star in boxing and he's unknown in the states.

He is well known in UK, quite enough for him.

Ya think?

[ValMar]

Joshua could be the biggest star in boxing and he's unknown in the states.

He is well known in UK, quite enough for him.

Ya think?

Yes...What about you ?

[SaadOffTheDeck]

He is well known in UK, quite enough for him.

Ya think?

Yes...What about you ?

[nfc90210]

Time to accept the PPV model is dead, huge money paydays are a thing of the past and the model of just whacking stuff on PPV has canabalised it's entire audience.

Given how big Conor McGregor has been drawing this year (it's been reported that McGregor/Diaz II did in the region of 1.6 million PPV buys) I don't think we can say that PPV is dead. If you have something that people want to watch they will pay for it in large numbers. I think the truth is that boxing didn't have fights that enough people were willing to pay for.

[Enlightened-One]

let's not forget Golovkin-Brook did over 500k here in the UK.

Eddie Hearn was interviewed by Fight-Hype at the Jack-DeGale press conference and he conceded that Golovkin-Brook only did 400K+ not the 500K+ that was previously reported. He said the following:

“The Brook-Golovkin numbers were good in the UK, 400,000+, but I expected more… but sometimes we [the boxing community] live in a bubble, where we don’t realise what the general public are thinking.”

“It’s a bit like Kell Brook versus Errol Spence, we go ‘Oh what a great fight!’ but if you walked down any street in England or maybe in the US and say ‘Kell Brook is going to fight Errol Spence’, they’d say ‘Who’s Errol Spence?’”

“I think Golovkin vs. Jacobs, if that’s promoted properly and Tom [Loeffler] does a great job, I think that could do good numbers. Whether it does 250K… 300K…”

“[Matchroom] build big big undercards for their pay-per-views, especially when Joshua’s fighting… Joshua-Molina did well over 400K buys. It was three rounds, Molina didn’t do a lot, he got outclassed and knocked-out badly. So if that was it, I’d be strung up the next day in the centre of London and burned on a steak. So what you do is, you put Whyte-Chisora on [the undercard], you put Scott Quigg on, you put Luiz Ortiz on, you put Katie Taylor on…”

“So all of a sudden, by the time Joshua comes on, you want the people at home to be sitting there going ‘What a night! I hope Joshua goes in there and knocks him out in two rounds, so we can go to bed or go out… And what does he do, he goes in, he looks a million dollars, [scores a] knockout and everyone goes ‘What a night!’”

So at least we know that if Matchroom promote a PPV containing a stacked fight card, we can bank on the main event being a mismatch!

It’s also interesting to see the Golovkin-Brook UK PPV buy-rate revised from 500K to 400K.

[ElJefe]

let's not forget Golovkin-Brook did over 500k here in the UK. I think the big fights can be made, and those are the fights that will draw. This year was supposed to be GGG/Canelo, easily over 1m buys. Khan/Brook in the UK easily does over 1m buys in the UK.. Wilder/AJ + or Wilder/Fury just about breaks the million mark. GGG/Ward would do 500k + IMO.

Although not talked about much, Box Office UK is ahead of HBO and Showtime ppv

Khan/Brook would do nearer to 500k than 1 million imo. Probably around 600-700k. Froch/Groves 2 was MASSIVE but 'only' did 900k. I'm not sure Khan/Brook sells out Wembley like Froch/Groves 2 did, never mind hit 1 million PPV buys.

[davie]

That's a wrap..

April 9, 2016 – Pacquiao-Bradley III: ~400K PPV buys
May 7, 2016 – Alvarez-Khan: ~450K-600K PPV buys
July 23, 2016 – Crawford-Postol: 50K-60K PPV buys
September 17, 2016 – Alvarez-Smith: >~300K PPV buys
November 5, 2016 – Pacquiao-Vargas: ~300K PPV buys
November 19, 2016 – Ward-Kovalev – 160,000 PPV buys

Probably the 2 most interesting match ups got the lowest buys, meanwhile people will shell out to watch Pacquiao and Alvarez fight anyone.

Did GGG not feature on a ppv?

[davie]

These are awul numbers compared to McGregor ppv numbers. Time for real 50-50 fights where people want the win by knockout and not this boring Floyd and ward snozzze fests

The 50-50 fights did the worst numbers. American people presumably just want to watch Floyd, Canelo and Pacquiao beat nobodies