Shawn Porter Believes PPV Fight Against Errol Spence is Next

[Ruthless-RKO]

“I think we got Errol Spence next. We’ll see,” Porter told reporters in Oxon Hill, Maryland, before Sergey Lipinets defeated Lamont Peterson.

Porter had another nugget before taking his ringside seat: “Oh yeah, it’s a pay-per-view fight.”

Many fight fans will grown at the PPV price tag, but it’s an intriguing bout between two aggressive fighters in their prime.

The roles have reversed in the Porter-Spence rivalry. In September, Spence entered the ring to call out Porter after Porter captured the WBC title in a signature win over Danny Garcia.

But after Spence retained his IBF belt in a unanimous decision victory against Mikey Garcia on March 16, Spence didn’t seem interested in a fight with Porter.

Spence prefered Manny Pacquiao, a much more lucrative bout, and took a shot at Porter by saying he can’t sell out a family dinner.

Now, Spence will probably be hoping Porter brings a lot more fans to the venue if a bout between the two comes to fruition.

[oogiebe]

Of course it's PPV worthy. We don't really know the value until after the fight. There's been some other 'big fights' that turned out to be let downs for one reason or another, including a bitten ear. I don't believe this will be one of them.

[ValMar]

Why not ?

[jamamb]

ppv is probably needed to get these guys in the ring with spence, thurman especially has been pretty open about not fighting him....one of the most openly avoided guys out there

[SenorPipino]

If Spence-Garcia did about 400,000 PPV, a Spence-Porter fight wouldn't hit 300,000.

Unless fighters are true superstars, I'm a big believer in needing a Latino (I.e. Mexican) in one corner to attract a substantial amount of buyers.

Watch how badly Crawford-Khan does.

[Ruthless-RKO]

ppv is probably needed to get these guys in the ring with spence, thurman especially has been pretty open about not fighting him....one of the most openly avoided guys out there

True. PPV guarantee’s more money from them through buys. They need to sell the fight though.

FOX did a good job with Spence-Garcia.

[skanksta]

I think of a PPV as "can't miss" fight between two (usually unbeaten) superstars like DLH vs Floyd, Canelo vs GGG or a national treasure (UK or Mexico) type thing a la Tyson vs Bruno, Hatton vs Mayweather, anything Chavez.
So no.

But in the modern world, it's any proper relevant fight between two big names - so sadly yes.

[SenorPipino]

I think of a PPV as "can't miss" fight between two (usually unbeaten) superstars like DLH vs Floyd, Canelo vs GGG or a national treasure (UK or Mexico) type thing a la Tyson vs Bruno, Hatton vs Mayweather, anything Chavez.
So no.

But in the modern world, it's any proper relevant fight between two big names - so sadly yes.

PPV isn't anything like it once was.

It was once reserved strictly for Superfights. Same as closed-circuit.

Not it's just a means to cover exorbitant purse demands.

[tiny_acres]

I think of a PPV as "can't miss" fight between two (usually unbeaten) superstars like DLH vs Floyd, Canelo vs GGG or a national treasure (UK or Mexico) type thing a la Tyson vs Bruno, Hatton vs Mayweather, anything Chavez.
So no.

But in the modern world, it's any proper relevant fight between two big names - so sadly yes.

PPV isn't anything like it once was.

It was once reserved strictly for Superfights. Same as closed-circuit.

Not it's just a means to cover exorbitant purse demands.

You nailed it

[skanksta]

Indeed.

AJ gets away being "a PPV fighter"

PPV should be, Loma vs Tank, AJ vs Fury/Wilder and Crawford vs Spence.

And that is pretty much it.

In a few fights time - Beterbiev/Bivol/Gvodzyk/Krusher unifications deserve it in quality terms, but (no offence) unpronounceable East Europeans just don't have the star power and only Beterbiev is exciting enough to justify PPV.

[gilgamesh]

I don't know if it's PPV worthy or not, but I doubt it would sell as well as Mikey vs Errol did. The Latino fight fans are an enormous portion of the Boxing fanbase, and without their interest in their guy in the Main Event I don't think it'd be nearly as big of a draw.