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BARB have released their figures for the week ending 26th May.

http://www.barb.co.uk/viewing/weekly-to ... 1305060126

SKY Box Office events for the week total just 32,000.

Surely this can't be right however I'm not finding much online to suggest figures where higher.

chad wrote:BARB have released their figures for the week ending 26th May.

http://www.barb.co.uk/viewing/weekly-to ... 1305060126

SKY Box Office events for the week total just 32,000.

Surely this can't be right however I'm not finding much online to suggest figures where higher.

Not right mate! They do not release them!

chad wrote:BARB have released their figures for the week ending 26th May.

http://www.barb.co.uk/viewing/weekly-to ... 1305060126

SKY Box Office events for the week total just 32,000.

Surely this can't be right however I'm not finding much online to suggest figures where higher.

With ppv they can actually tell how many buy it! But they never ever do . Barb figures are taken from a sample of viewers.

How many do you think it did?

It's apparently done very well.

If i hear anything concrete i will post it up.

G0mez wrote:It's apparently done very well.

If i hear anything concrete i will post it up.

That's what I would have expected. From what I remember, Khan Vs Mcloskey did around 50,000 PPV's on primetime or whatever the channel was and that was with a last minute switch from Sky.And that fight wasn't even in the same ballpark as Froch Vs Kessler 2. Sky gave this fight a big build up so was expecting at least around the 500,000 mark.

Newport Daz wrote:

G0mez wrote:It's apparently done very well.

If i hear anything concrete i will post it up.

That's what I would have expected. From what I remember, Khan Vs Mcloskey did around 50,000 PPV's on primetime or whatever the channel was and that was with a last minute switch from Sky.And that fight wasn't even in the same ballpark as Froch Vs Kessler 2. Sky gave this fight a big build up so was expecting at least around the 500,000 mark.

Khan still is a pretty big draw though to be fair. He's been in the public eye for so long now.

if it is say 500k PPVs bought, then that generates £7.5m in cash.

the rumours ive read on forums, twitter, press etc is that both guys got $2m +


surely they will get a percentage of that big cash pot too

Going by previous figures, we'd be safe to assume that the fight did at least 200K PPV sales in the UK.

Basically...... no one knows?

ScottDetonator wrote:Going by previous figures, we'd be safe to assume that the fight did at least 200K PPV sales in the UK.

I would say this is closer than the 500,000 estimates. Remember, Denmark had it PPV too, and at a much more expensive price. It was also shown all over the World. It generated a lot of cash.

Just to be a pedant - SKY do release PPV figures sometimes. But only when it's a huge success..


Read into that what you will.

Pug1 wrote:Basically...... no one knows?

Everyone is guessing, which is quite funny

Apparently it's around the 300k mark (thats the word doing the rounds in Sky anyway)

airdrie diamond wrote:Apparently it's around the 300k mark (thats the word doing the rounds in Sky anyway)

You're not Jim White are you? DD

jessi wrote:

Pug1 wrote:Basically...... no one knows?

Everyone is guessing, which is quite funny

I think it had about 17K buys, and most of them were us.

Newport Daz wrote:

airdrie diamond wrote:Apparently it's around the 300k mark (thats the word doing the rounds in Sky anyway)

You're not Jim White are you? DD

Probably should've added that's what I've been told by someone who works for Sky! Certainly not Jim White!

Reasonable numbers if so.

Newport Daz wrote:

airdrie diamond wrote:Apparently it's around the 300k mark (thats the word doing the rounds in Sky anyway)

You're not Jim White are you? DD

Jim White is too busy getting sloshed to give a shit about PPV numbers!

300k at £15 a pop would be another £4.5m into the pot for Sky/Matchroom/Froch/Kessler. Nice work if it is 300k.

I heard 275k, which isn't great but isn't bad under the circumstances seeing as it ran against the Champions League final.

Do we think a third one would be as succesful or more succesful ?

or would a ward rematch be successful, i think this fight still stinks due to Wards style but proberly would sell well if it was on at a reasonable time and a better undercard than the last time

Alba wrote:Do we think a third one would be as succesful or more succesful ?

or would a ward rematch be successful, i think this fight still stinks due to Wards style but proberly would sell well if it was on at a reasonable time and a better undercard than the last time

Froch bossed Kessler in the last fight. I'm not too sure Kessler has another toe-to-toe war left in him. Froch Vs. Kessler III doesn't excite me as I wouldn't view it as a 50/50 fight. It'd be more like 70/30 in favour of Froch.

I would love to see Froch Vs. Ward on British soil but not again over in America. Ward beat Froch easily first time and I'm sure the same would happen again in Vegas. Bring Ward to the UK out of his comfort zone, and put him in front of 20,000 rabid Froch fans, now that would be interesting. I would like to see Froch close out his career by moving up to Light Heavyweight. There is not much left for him to do at Super Middleweight.

Glyn Leach wrote:I heard 275k, which isn't great but isn't bad under the circumstances seeing as it ran against the Champions League final.

I don't think Sky will be overjoyed with that considering the huge build up they gave it. It's all about Haye-Fury now on PPV...

Makes you realise just how big a fight Hatton v Mayweather was. Different economic climate back then I know but it did almost a million buys in the uk. Still even with just shy of 300k sky will still have made a few quid.

dbf wrote:Makes you realise just how big a fight Hatton v Mayweather was. Different economic climate back then I know but it did almost a million buys in the uk. Still even with just shy of 300k sky will still have made a few quid.

I said that on here. Someone actually thought it would be the biggest PPV EVER! Some people really get carried away with the hype...