Best and worst selling UK PPVs according to BARB

[Ruthless-RKO]

Surely Primetime stuff will be really low.

Was Earl vs Bennett on Primetime or some other short lived PPV channel? I remember Tyson vs McBride being on the same channel.

Wasn't Dynamite Dean Phillips vs Kevin Bennett also on some Pay Stream?

The Klit's had a few fights on Primetime.

Primetime started with the Super Six I believe.

[stujones]

Did Setanta have a PPV arm then.... I can remember ordering some horror PPVs shows before the Super 6 on some obscure channel.

I have on DVD somewhere.
Earl vs Bennett
Tyson vs McBride
Hopkins vs Hakkar

Think there were others also.

and I called them PPVs!!! What was the channel?

Primetime also had some shockers - and yes I bought them!
Holyfield vs Botha

Something tells me Holyfield vs Sherman Williams might have also been on Primetime. Possibly even Holyfield vs Neilsen (I didn't order that one if it was on PPV).

At least Primetime took into account the fight with the pricing.

[hitman_hatton1]

I remember Lewis Tyson being massive in the press here too.

i thought that would be top 5 still.

and lennox lewis seals his place in history forever.

calm down darkey lad.

[stujones]

When you think about it - clearly now Dillion Whyte is a PPV name..... a non world champion, a guy who didn't wins the lonsdale belt for keeps - but now he can fight no names and be PPV.

When you think of Hamed (one of the biggest stars in the History of the sport in terms of endorsements etc)... I believe 6 of his world title fights were not on PPV..... actually it is 7. People forget that the Collins vs Benn leg of Tyson vs Holyfield was NOT on PPV - it was on Sky Sports.

Hamed vs Robinson, Alicea, Lawal, Medina, Molina, and Cabrera were definately on Sky Sports. Not 100% on Hamed vs Johnson - pretty certain that was a PPV, although I always thought that Hamed vs Hardy was the first UK PPV.

[mickey1975]

Surely Primetime stuff will be really low.

Was Earl vs Bennett on Primetime or some other short lived PPV channel? I remember Tyson vs McBride being on the same channel.

Wasn't Dynamite Dean Phillips vs Kevin Bennett also on some Pay Stream?

Earl-Bennett

[Boxerbeetle]

The Klit's had a few fights on Primetime.

Primetime started with the Super Six I believe.

I think Froch-Taylor was the first Primetime PPV? I definitely remember buying it, I had to watch it on my tiny laptop and nearly knocked it over during the last round

[veriton]

pretty sure glenn catley v dingan thebola and kelly oliver v sebastian rothmann was a PPV

[hitman_hatton1]

Not 100% on Hamed vs Johnson - pretty certain that was a PPV, although I always thought that Hamed vs Hardy was the first UK PPV.

johnson fight was ppv.

i watched it round a neighbours house.

[adamwillan]

Not strictly tv but Fury vs Parker must be the lowest ppv

[jameswilson]

I think Froch-Taylor was the first Primetime PPV? I definitely remember buying it, I had to watch it on my tiny laptop and nearly knocked it over during the last round

That fight most definitely was not picked up by UK tv at all. I’d imagine you would have been streaming the showtime footage. We had to listen on BBC radio and then watch delayed footage on one of the itv channels the next day. That fight was the Saturday night before I joined the navy so I remember it vividly. To this day I’ve no idea how Mick Hennessy promoted such an exciting title fight as Froch v Pascal on ITV1 and then can’t get any tv whatsoever for the 1st defence.


Froch v Kessler 1 was however on Primetime.

[jameswilson]

Not strictly tv but Fury vs Parker must be the lowest ppv

Shame such a small audience could see shades of Ali.

[Boxerbeetle]

That fight most definitely was not picked up by UK tv at all. I’d imagine you would have been streaming the showtime footage. We had to listen on BBC radio and then watch delayed footage on one of the itv channels the next day. That fight was the Saturday night before I joined the navy so I remember it vividly. To this day I’ve no idea how Mick Hennessy promoted such an exciting title fight as Froch v Pascal on ITV1 and then can’t get any tv whatsoever for the 1st defence.


Froch v Kessler 1 was however on Primetime.

I distinctly remembered paying a tenner for Froch-Taylor so I just googled the fight out of interest - looks like it wasn’t Primetime after all, but a one-off online PPV setup by Hennessy.

[dbf]

Think ITV 4(?) showed Froch Taylor delayed, possibly on the Sunday Evening the day after the fight.

[stujones]

That fight most definitely was not picked up by UK tv at all. I’d imagine you would have been streaming the showtime footage. We had to listen on BBC radio and then watch delayed footage on one of the itv channels the next day. That fight was the Saturday night before I joined the navy so I remember it vividly. To this day I’ve no idea how Mick Hennessy promoted such an exciting title fight as Froch v Pascal on ITV1 and then can’t get any tv whatsoever for the 1st defence.


Froch v Kessler 1 was however on Primetime.

Froch vs Taylor was on a Internet PPV thingy live and on ITV the day after the fight.

[stujones]

Earl-Bennett

Yes Earl vs Bennett was on Setanta when it was a PPV channel and I can remember people being really annoyed that they also showed Tyson vs McBride - which was either the week or the night before - as part of the same PPV and they only announced that AFTER people (like me) who bought Tyson vs McBride. I was doubly annoyed because they sacrificed much of the Earl vs Bennett undercard for Tyson vs McBride.

I'm also certain that was the TV punditary debut of Steve Lillis.

But I also think, but far from sure, that Phillips vs Bennett (successful title defence for Bennett) was on some internet stream where you had to pay for it. Was it Britishboxing.net or was it Eugine Maloney - or am I just dreaming that.