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With Allegedly's bill, the Klitchsko fight and the Khan fight I would be surprised if this comes in at £15. Hopefully I'll be proved wrong!

It will be a £15 pound package.

If the Khan fight, Klit/Chisora fight, and a Warren bill got shown, then I would break my exile from PPV and buy this motherfucker.

Dioufy wrote:If the Khan fight, Klit/Chisora fight, and a Warren bill got shown, then I would break my exile from PPV and buy this motherfucker.

Yes, this would be one bill I would be happy to pay for.

Not sure I can see it happening? That's a lot for Sky to fork out for.....plus won't the Chisora and Warren bill clash?

Now that is what you call a PPV. Unfortunatly, I think we will be moving to the next level price wise. The yanks are paying £30ish is it?

I'm worried about Sky moving to the next level too. I can't see that it would be easy for Sky, Allegedly, Possibly K2 and GBP to all agree a split of a ppv of £15. I'm guessing maybe £25 for this, being applied as to £5 for each countries bill and the rest to Sky. If this turns out to be a success then that's the end if the £15 ppv, triple header or not.

I could be proved wrong and Sky just think this triple header will sell big time at £15 a pop, with enough of a pot to divide all round, but I doubt it.


As for the night itself. I wouldn't be surprised to see the night start off at Liverpool, cross over at 10 for Klitschko back for a fight or two at Liverpool, then over to Vegas.

They don't have to divide it around, all they have to do is pay them a flat fee for broadcast rights. That's how it's always worked. That's why they sometimes make "big" overseas fights PPVs and why often you get them included in your SKY sub. They are obliged to show you sports for "free" as you're paying them a fairly hefty sub and on top of that, a SKY sports sub.

Obviously they would hope to recoup more than that cost in PPV sales.

Cheers. I'm just confused as, using Haye as an example, I though he was not paid a flat fee but £x out of every £15 ppv sold. I assumed something along those lines would happen here.

bfchunk wrote:Cheers. I'm just confused as, using Haye as an example, I though he was not paid a flat fee but £x out of every £15 ppv sold. I assumed something along those lines would happen here.

That is a different situation.

He's the fighter/promoter in that instance and has a contract with SKY for them to show his fights on PPV. As part of that contract, he has an agreed split with the company that televises the PPV.

The flat fee that SKY pay is not to the fighter, but to the company that broadcasts the fight - They OWN the broadcast rights.

Overseas is complex because HBO, for example, do not have the rights to broadcast outside the US - They sell the live feed to whoever wants to pay what they're asking. Likewise, SKY will sell the feed or rights to Showtime or HBO or German TV (as they did with the Mag 7 show, but German TV were actually on-site, broadcasting).

This is the one of the sticking points with K2 promotions and Hayemaker - They wanted a 50/50 split right across the board, but Haye said no - You have German TV money and I'll have UK - Knowing full well that if the fight did 2 million buys, he would probably get £10 million alone from SKY. German TV is not PPV, nor are either brother PPV so they get a flat fee from TV for televising - Obviously it would be a couple of million more than foreign TV would have to pay but this is why it's not as straightforward as saying - X gets £x, Y gets eY, lots of different things are factored in - TV rights, PPV sales, ticket sales etc etc. Anyway, I digress from your original question.

Would be surprised if it was more than £15. That's usually the standard price!!!

I reckon they will bump it with the VAT increase coming up.