Kubrat Pulev vs. Hughie Fury - 27 October 2018

[Boxerbeetle]

So half?

I'm thinking more around the 1 million mark.

the 1.4 figure is a weekly channel viewing of Sky Sports Box Office channel, so that figure would likely be the people that bought it and then anyone of them that tuned in to the replays.

That's interesting. How many buys do you think WIlder-Fury will do on BT? I can't see it doing more than 250k.

I’d be amazed if it even did that.

[Ruthless-RKO]

So half?

I'm thinking more around the 1 million mark.

the 1.4 figure is a weekly channel viewing of Sky Sports Box Office channel, so that figure would likely be the people that bought it and then anyone of them that tuned in to the replays.

That's interesting. How many buys do you think WIlder-Fury will do on BT? I can't see it doing more than 250k.

I honestly think it will do around that figure. Had it been in the evening UK time, it would have done much higher figures but it's going to on around 4am.

[nitro5912]

Much more than Ajs numbers then?

You cannot compare the 2.

One is on free tv, one you have to pay £20 for.

V Parker AJ had 1.4million buys at 20quid.

Comparing Hughie to that would be his YouTube fight which was a disaster.

How many would AJ get if on free TV? And by free I mean not sky, ppv or BT sport?

I explained this very thing on my above post.

By the way, Joshua vs. Parker did not do 1.4m buys. That figure was taken from BARB, which counts average weekly viewership.

How can you have an average when it is a one off event on PPV. These don't happen weekly.

Ok so if that isn't buys, then it 1.4m viewers average which is higher than Hughie v the same opponent which was also PPV.

I'd imagine the amount of viewers that watched AJ v povetkin is higher than what is stated as how many had 1 buy on one screen but had multiple people watching.

[Ruthless-RKO]

How can you have an average when it is a one off event on PPV. These don't happen weekly.

Ok so if that isn't buys, then it 1.4m viewers average which is higher than Hughie v the same opponent which was also PPV.

I'd imagine the amount of viewers that watched AJ v povetkin is higher than what is stated as how many had 1 buy on one screen but had multiple people watching.

Like you said, it's a one off event, but it's replayed. The BARB report is a weekly report of how many viewers it reached.

Earlier I said average, I used the wrong word.

So as I said, let's say AJ-Parker did 1 million buys, if half of those same people that bought the PPV, let's say missed the undercard and wanted to watch it, they'd watch the replays on Sunday, which would be in the same week as the 'one off event'. That's why the weekly reach is higher.

BARB states the week ending 11th November, the weekly reach was just over 600k views. That the Usyk-Bellew week. Who knows, the fight might have done 500k or even 300k ppv buys... I know anyone that may have bought it would have gone back to watch the fight, maybe to analyse? score it again?

[jameswilson]

It always seems to be that BARB figure that is quoted when someone breaks the PPV record tho. Off the top of my head it was Hatton Mayweather, then Mayweather v PAC, then Joshua v Klitscho and then Mayweather v McGregor which were the record holders. In each case the barb figure was the one quoted as the figure.

I obviously take your point that someone can buy it and watch it on repeat after watching it live but if your gonna say ‘no way did Joshua klitschko do that many’ then you have to say the same about the Mayweather ppvs as well because they are using the same source to say how many buys or views it did.

[Ruthless-RKO]

It always seems to be that BARB figure that is quoted when someone breaks the PPV record tho. Off the top of my head it was Hatton Mayweather, then Mayweather v PAC, then Joshua v Klitscho and then Mayweather v McGregor which were the record holders. In each case the barb figure was the one quoted as the figure.

I obviously take your point that someone can buy it and watch it on repeat after watching it live but if your gonna say ‘no way did Joshua klitschko do that many’ then you have to say the same about the Mayweather ppvs as well because they are using the same source to say how many buys or views it did.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay-per-view

Looking at the UK PPV list.. most figures from the past 10 years are taken from BARB, which is clearly incorrect, as BARB don’t record PPV Buys. If you notice only a select few have a real reference for example Haye-Bellew 1.. Any figures which has the reference taken from ‘BARB’ is incorrect.

Not gonna lie, I actually did a lot of research to find most of the real numbers, like the Haye-Bellew 1 figure.

Any BARB figures are slightly inflated, no doubt. It’s a shame Sky don’t report their figures.

Mayweather US figures are accurate. The UK ones, again like you said are more than the actual figure. I heard May-Pac did 1 million. I’ve read Joshua-Klit did more than 1 million. Most of these can be guesses.

The way I look at it, the BARB figures just show us that the PPV buys are DEFINATELY lower than the BARB figure.