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Posted: **13 May 2024, 07:52**

Boxerbeetle wrote: ↑12 May 2024, 15:50
Loynesy wrote: ↑12 May 2024, 15:43 Yep - absolutely. I was going to go but a mate invited me to see Bruce Springsteen in Dublin. We will watch it together. It's hardly a fortune.
Cost isn't the point, I'm sure most of us can easily afford it. It's the principle for me. Boxing in the UK should never have opened the PPV floodgates, especially when the broadcasters are blatantly ripping the piss with it. They even show adverts throughout, ffs.

The adverts are a pisstake.

If you are paying that amount of money for PPV, you should be spared the amount of ads you get with your PPV.

In China we will get the fight probably on delayed coverage but Canelo and the big American fights are shown free, gratis and for nowt on their TV channel there and live! It is probably the case in a lot of the planet, the UK might be one of the few countries where the fight is going on air for £25 and PPV.

Posted: **13 May 2024, 11:17**

Loynesy wrote: ↑13 May 2024, 04:08
Boxerbeetle wrote: ↑12 May 2024, 15:50
Loynesy wrote: ↑12 May 2024, 15:43 Yep - absolutely. I was going to go but a mate invited me to see Bruce Springsteen in Dublin. We will watch it together. It's hardly a fortune.
Cost isn't the point, I'm sure most of us can easily afford it. It's the principle for me. Boxing in the UK should never have opened the PPV floodgates, especially when the broadcasters are blatantly ripping the piss with it. They even show adverts throughout, ffs.
BB - agreed it may not be about the actual amount of money it costs and if you have your principles I fully respect that. Whether we like it or not, that's just the new business model. As a counter argument, a lot more top level fights are happening than in a long time because they are being better remunerated due to PPV.

I think a lot of top level fights have been blocked/ postponed until irrelevancy due to ppvs, tbh. Look at the sorry state boxing was in until Saudi money came along

Posted: **13 May 2024, 11:19**

I’ll be watching via my IPTV sub. If I didn’t have that, I’d have no issue coughing up 25 quid for a massive fight with a stacked card on at a reasonable time.

Posted: **13 May 2024, 11:42**

For all my principles, by no means can I guarantee that I won't get pissed up on Saturday afternoon and end up ordering it anyway

Posted: **13 May 2024, 11:45**

BB - look forward to online chatting as the fight is happening.......

Posted: **13 May 2024, 13:42**

Definitely buying it, couple of pals round, plenty to watch on the undercard. Can’t wait.

Posted: **13 May 2024, 14:15**

Boxerbeetle wrote: ↑12 May 2024, 15:35 Why do we even need PPV when Saudi is bankrolling the whole fvcking thing anyway? Boxing fans are taken for mugs.

The Saudis still need to get a return on their investment

Posted: **13 May 2024, 14:23**

Kilburn wrote: ↑13 May 2024, 13:42 Definitely buying it, couple of pals round, plenty to watch on the undercard. Can’t wait.

Yeah its not bad value, especially if you split it with mates. You don't get much for £25 these days, a round in a pub can be more.

Posted: **13 May 2024, 16:07**

Yes. It's a big enough fight to justify the expense

Posted: **13 May 2024, 16:37**

Absolutely not

Posted: **13 May 2024, 16:42**

I pay 50 quid a year for my channels 'all in'. so ill be watching it on there....

Posted: **13 May 2024, 18:12**

Frostieballs wrote: ↑13 May 2024, 02:39
SeanBrennan wrote: ↑12 May 2024, 16:28
Frostieballs wrote: ↑12 May 2024, 14:29 Yes I will buy.

It’s a fight I’ve wanted to see for years.

£25 irks me - but it’s 3 pints where I live.

Given the scale of the event, I’d probably pay up to about £40.
not prying but where do you live? £8 a pint is very expensive mate.

I am also buying it
Brighton mate. We are in the £6.50 to £7 range for a pint here, so you’d get a bit of change from £25.

However, I paid £33 for 3 negronis yesterday afternoon that we drank in under 5 minutes.

Last week I paid £22 for two Burger King meals, £25 for fish and chips and spent £10 a day in Starbucks.

This is a huge fight, featuring a P4P great for all the heavyweight championship baubles. There is loads of beef/intrigue/unknowns going in. It has a 200 page thread on here!

Why wouldn’t I pay £25?

The sporting quality of the contest is largely irrelevant to me in this scenario. It’s all about the drama and watching it unfold in real time with loved ones around me!

good post and thanks for the detail. My nephew relocated there last year and got married there last week, he's a full time drag artist now and it's a lot more tolerant than my little county!

Posted: **13 May 2024, 19:03**

Bercli wrote: ↑13 May 2024, 14:15
Boxerbeetle wrote: ↑12 May 2024, 15:35 Why do we even need PPV when Saudi is bankrolling the whole fvcking thing anyway? Boxing fans are taken for mugs.
The Saudis still need to get a return on their investment

The Saudis are losing money hand over first on these sporting events, it isn't about profit.

Posted: **14 May 2024, 02:36**

Am I shite.

I have means to watch it live but,

I need to be up at 7am Sunday for golf.

Posted: **14 May 2024, 06:21**

i'm still undecided but ultimately i think my relatively recent disdain for fury will make me watch it so i can watch him get tooled

Posted: **14 May 2024, 09:38**

I'll buy it. My eldest son and my wife both want to see it, so a rare opportunity to get the main big telly on a Saturday night.

Posted: **14 May 2024, 11:14**

plenty of local pubs showing in my area, rather go and invest that £25 in five pints and watch there

Posted: **14 May 2024, 11:20**

mike john wrote: ↑14 May 2024, 11:14 plenty of local pubs showing in my area, rather go and invest that £25 in five pints and watch there

thats a good point, what time will the Fury fight be on, anyone?

Posted: **14 May 2024, 11:26**

Counter-puncher wrote: ↑14 May 2024, 11:20
mike john wrote: ↑14 May 2024, 11:14 plenty of local pubs showing in my area, rather go and invest that £25 in five pints and watch there
thats a good point, what time will the Fury fight be on, anyone?

11pm

Posted: **14 May 2024, 11:39**

The Gratest wrote: ↑14 May 2024, 11:26
Counter-puncher wrote: ↑14 May 2024, 11:20
mike john wrote: ↑14 May 2024, 11:14 plenty of local pubs showing in my area, rather go and invest that £25 in five pints and watch there
thats a good point, what time will the Fury fight be on, anyone?
11pm

feck that then

Posted: **14 May 2024, 11:49**

Probably later than 11pm. They tend to over run.

I'll be at a mate's. I'll bring the drinks.

Tizer.

Posted: **14 May 2024, 11:55**

definitely feck that

Posted: **14 May 2024, 12:12**

https://www.fanzo.com/en

Good site here to find places showing it.

Think I'm going to watch it in the pub, nobody I know is watching the fight at theirs, or wants to watch it - so I will find a boozer with people watching it and go there.

My Mrs hates boxing which makes it a massive buzzkill.

Posted: **14 May 2024, 12:16**

Will be spending £25

Posted: **14 May 2024, 12:26**

quickeyg wrote: ↑14 May 2024, 12:16 Will be spending £25

how many weeks pocket money is that for you ?

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