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Re: Mayweather Wants The PPV To Be £100 in The UK, Says Hearn

Posted: 31 Jul 2017, 17:54
by ShadrachSimmo
rossij8 wrote:Please make it £100

I'm not going to buy it even if its normal price

I'd probably watch it eating my breakfast on sky plus if its free but that's it
Be better if it was a ton that could guarantee even a lot of casual fans not getting it.

Re: Mayweather Wants The PPV To Be £100 in The UK, Says Hearn

Posted: 31 Jul 2017, 18:47
by Boxerbeetle
I think they're vastly overestimating the popularity of this event tbh - I don't think it's going to sell particularly well over here. The UFC fans in the UK aren't used to PPV, and most of the ones I've spoken to acknowledge that the fight is a joke, as do hardcore boxing fans. And a lot of the casual boxing fans I've spoken to are still bitter about staying up til 6am watching Mayweather score a boring win over Pacquiao (obviously not realising that he's fought a negative style for the past 10 years or so), and are unlikely to pay to watch him again.

Re: Mayweather Wants The PPV To Be £100 in The UK, Says Hearn

Posted: 31 Jul 2017, 19:31
by Taansend
asdfjkl wrote:Anyone paying over 5 dollar to watch this obviously doesn't know anything about boxing.
But ok, who am I.
You're a shitbag who thinks Dillian Whyte is a coward.

And that person who "obviously doesn't know anything about boxing" still knows more than you :lol:

Re: Mayweather Wants The PPV To Be £100 in The UK, Says Hearn

Posted: 01 Aug 2017, 00:40
by asdfjkl
Taansend wrote:
asdfjkl wrote:Anyone paying over 5 dollar to watch this obviously doesn't know anything about boxing.
But ok, who am I.
You're a shitbag who thinks Dillian Whyte is a coward.

And that person who "obviously doesn't know anything about boxing" still knows more than you :lol:
Well, if you think you know better, then proof it on PTBF. Atm you're just another random guy admiring me from a distance in a crowd screaming bullshit.

Re: Mayweather Wants The PPV To Be £100 in The UK, Says Hearn

Posted: 01 Aug 2017, 03:11
by mickey1975
Boxerbeetle wrote:I think they're vastly overestimating the popularity of this event tbh - I don't think it's going to sell particularly well over here. The UFC fans in the UK aren't used to PPV, and most of the ones I've spoken to acknowledge that the fight is a joke, as do hardcore boxing fans. And a lot of the casual boxing fans I've spoken to are still bitter about staying up til 6am watching Mayweather score a boring win over Pacquiao (obviously not realising that he's fought a negative style for the past 10 years or so), and are unlikely to pay to watch him again.
I disagree. The interest is massive.

Re: Mayweather Wants The PPV To Be £100 in The UK, Says Hearn

Posted: 01 Aug 2017, 03:41
by Boxerbeetle
mickey1975 wrote:
Boxerbeetle wrote:I think they're vastly overestimating the popularity of this event tbh - I don't think it's going to sell particularly well over here. The UFC fans in the UK aren't used to PPV, and most of the ones I've spoken to acknowledge that the fight is a joke, as do hardcore boxing fans. And a lot of the casual boxing fans I've spoken to are still bitter about staying up til 6am watching Mayweather score a boring win over Pacquiao (obviously not realising that he's fought a negative style for the past 10 years or so), and are unlikely to pay to watch him again.
I disagree. The interest is massive.
Oh yeah, there's a lot of interest - but I'm just not sure that interest is necessarily going to translate into sales as well as they are expecting.

Re: Mayweather Wants The PPV To Be £100 in The UK, Says Hearn

Posted: 01 Aug 2017, 05:24
by Matt W
Not a chance in hell I'll be paying for this shower of sh1te.

Re: Mayweather Wants The PPV To Be £100 in The UK, Says Hearn

Posted: 01 Aug 2017, 07:45
by ILikeBeer
Whoever thought this fight was going to be £100 was an idiot.

Probably just a few "fans" who have never watched boxing before, got interested in the fight, and assumed PPV worked the same in the UK as in the USA.

Re: Mayweather Wants The PPV To Be £100 in The UK, Says Hearn

Posted: 01 Aug 2017, 07:49
by MarkMcBurney
Crease wrote:
fightfan95 wrote:I heard that the most Sky would charge would be £25
They didn't for Mayweather vs Pacquaio and it really doesn't get much bigger than that.
MayPac was £25 on Sky...

Re: Mayweather Wants The PPV To Be £100 in The UK, Says Hearn

Posted: 01 Aug 2017, 08:04
by Crease
MarkMcBurney wrote:MayPac was £25 on Sky...
:maybe:

I'm nearly sure that I got it for £19.95 - wasn't there a deal or something if you booked it early or something like that?

Re: Mayweather Wants The PPV To Be £100 in The UK, Says Hearn

Posted: 01 Aug 2017, 10:13
by Nightmare Roy
Crease wrote:
MarkMcBurney wrote:MayPac was £25 on Sky...
:maybe:

I'm nearly sure that I got it for £19.95 - wasn't there a deal or something if you booked it early or something like that?
It was £20 if booked early £25 on the day if I remember rightly.

Re: Mayweather Wants The PPV To Be £100 in The UK, Says Hearn

Posted: 01 Aug 2017, 11:38
by MarkMcBurney
Nightmare Roy wrote:
Crease wrote:
MarkMcBurney wrote:MayPac was £25 on Sky...
:maybe:

I'm nearly sure that I got it for £19.95 - wasn't there a deal or something if you booked it early or something like that?
It was £20 if booked early £25 on the day if I remember rightly.
I'm almost certain it was £25 in advance, £29.95 on the day/night...

Re: Mayweather Wants The PPV To Be £100 in The UK, Says Hearn

Posted: 01 Aug 2017, 12:38
by Boxerbeetle
MarkMcBurney wrote:
Nightmare Roy wrote:
Crease wrote: :maybe:

I'm nearly sure that I got it for £19.95 - wasn't there a deal or something if you booked it early or something like that?
It was £20 if booked early £25 on the day if I remember rightly.
I'm almost certain it was £25 in advance, £29.95 on the day/night...
Same.

Edit: A quick Google search suggests I was wrong :lol: Seems it was £20 in advance and £25 on the day.

Re: Mayweather Wants The PPV To Be £100 in The UK, Says Hearn

Posted: 01 Aug 2017, 13:49
by chrisnew86
May Pac was also sold on a per viewing card basis and not per household . I had a load of people round for the fight so had it on in both rooms, cost me almost 50 notes :lol:

Re: Mayweather Wants The PPV To Be £100 in The UK, Says Hearn

Posted: 01 Aug 2017, 16:05
by TheCobra
I think this fight will sell well in the UK. I've got a few fairly distant mates into UFC and they're buying into this hype enough to want to watch it. I'm sure there are enough meathead casuals in the UK for this to do pretty well.

Re: Mayweather Wants The PPV To Be £100 in The UK, Says Hearn

Posted: 02 Aug 2017, 11:24
by ILikeBeer
chrisnew86 wrote:May Pac was also sold on a per viewing card basis and not per household . I had a load of people round for the fight so had it on in both rooms, cost me almost 50 notes :lol:
Worth every penny.

Re: Mayweather Wants The PPV To Be £100 in The UK, Says Hearn

Posted: 04 Aug 2017, 03:43
by chrisnew86
ILikeBeer wrote:
chrisnew86 wrote:May Pac was also sold on a per viewing card basis and not per household . I had a load of people round for the fight so had it on in both rooms, cost me almost 50 notes :lol:
Worth every penny.
Tell me about it mate. Than god for Kodi ;-)

Re: Mayweather Wants The PPV To Be £100 in The UK, Says Hearn

Posted: 04 Aug 2017, 04:07
by ILikeBeer
3132DW wrote:Undercard -
Badou Jack v TBA
I've been interested in seeing TBA fight for a while. The problem is, he never turns up as scheduled.

Re: Mayweather Wants The PPV To Be £100 in The UK, Says Hearn

Posted: 04 Aug 2017, 04:27
by Stuffs
ILikeBeer wrote:
3132DW wrote:Undercard -
Badou Jack v TBA
I've been interested in seeing TBA fight for a while. The problem is, he never turns up as scheduled.
Sets the scene nicely for TBE v TBA though, a TMT Show with TMNT and USMNT on the undercard.

Re: Mayweather Wants The PPV To Be £100 in The UK, Says Hearn

Posted: 04 Aug 2017, 04:33
by SaadOffTheDeck
Peterson/bey & porter/dulorme are on the free portion of the undercard.

Re: Mayweather Wants The PPV To Be £100 in The UK, Says Hearn

Posted: 04 Aug 2017, 04:42
by ILikeBeer
Stuffs wrote:
Sets the scene nicely for TBE v TBA though, a TMT Show with TMNT and USMNT on the undercard.
Date and Venue TBC.

Re: Mayweather Wants The PPV To Be £100 in The UK, Says Hearn

Posted: 04 Aug 2017, 06:41
by Ossyrules
As Conor nicely put

"F*ck Floyd Mayweather"

Re: Mayweather Wants The PPV To Be £100 in The UK, Says Hearn

Posted: 04 Aug 2017, 07:26
by Stuffs
:clap:
ILikeBeer wrote:
Stuffs wrote:
Sets the scene nicely for TBE v TBA though, a TMT Show with TMNT and USMNT on the undercard.
Date and Venue TBC.