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bripez wrote: ↑22 Dec 2018, 09:10 Gutted as there are fights in both cards I would like to see, but I won’t be buying either as they are not PPV level in my opinion.

I might be being simplistic here ...... but with these cards they get the PPV money plus advertising and sponsorship money.

A PPV card might get 200,000 viewers and a “free” show might get 2 million viewers.

They would lose the PPV subscription money, but surely the advertising revenue would increase to cover this?

Coco wrote: ↑22 Dec 2018, 09:09

maverick23 wrote: ↑22 Dec 2018, 09:00

mickey1975 wrote: ↑22 Dec 2018, 08:06
Josh has all the Leeds fans across the country buying, Quigg never had that fan base.

When Warrington was with Sky his viewing figures when he headlined were low compared to other Sky shows (much lower than some).

Whilst his fanbase has grown since then I can’t see 250,000 Leeds fans buying the fight particularly when there’s a competing show that’s had far more publicity.

Warrington does great with ticket sales, less for an overall following

mickey1975 wrote: ↑22 Dec 2018, 09:33

Coco wrote: ↑22 Dec 2018, 09:09

maverick23 wrote: ↑22 Dec 2018, 09:00

When Warrington was with Sky his viewing figures when he headlined were low compared to other Sky shows (much lower than some).

Whilst his fanbase has grown since then I can’t see 250,000 Leeds fans buying the fight particularly when there’s a competing show that’s had far more publicity.

Warrington does great with ticket sales, less for an overall following

Because football fans in general don’t like Leeds.

dalcumly wrote: ↑22 Dec 2018, 06:41 I've no love for FW but as he'd already announced his show for tonight well in advance ( by the way not a PPV event). Hearn's much later announcement of his show (also not PPV worthy) was nothing more than a cynical ploy to disrupt the Manchester event financially, as part of his campaign against FW.
Whatever else Hearn thinks he's doing, he's abusing the trust of boxing fans in the UK. To ask the public to choose between 2 PPV events 3 days before Christmas is just selfish. One PPV was bad enough but to add to the situation is a disgrace.
It looks like the Hearn show is winning the pre-publicity war as far as the general media is concerned, and I can imagine Hearn sitting drinking his coffee this morning with a permanent sneer on his face.
FW is just as bad, and the two of them deserve each other, but its us , mere mortals, who are caught in the crossfire. They are killing the 'fatted calf' before our very eyes.
Professional boxing cannot survive without the public , live and on TV, paying up , and attracting the businesses buying advertising space because of the numbers.
My only consolation is the fact that all the 'big' promoters eventually fade out - Solomons, Levene, Duff, FW, Hearns ...........

Boxerbeetle wrote: ↑22 Dec 2018, 07:06 Yeah PPV sucks, especially when the card doesn’t even come close to warranting it. But the only way to stop it is to not buy.

dalcumly wrote: ↑22 Dec 2018, 13:21 Just as another aside, to prove how vindictive Hearn can be, he has never forgiven Frampton for leaving, even though Frampton is no longer with McGuigan.

Stuarty wrote: ↑22 Dec 2018, 07:16 Sky should just have a monthly subscription boxing channel. Maybe offer the big events as a PPV to non subscribers. I'd probably buy in to that. Say a tenner a month just for that channel. 120 a year. That actually more than what you'd pay buying every PPV but if they concentrated on their content and produced more quality shows along with the bigger shows I wouldn't mind paying out.