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Recently, there have been many off record allegations of artificially inflated PPV numbers.

And i thought to myself what would be the best way of laundering money, along with live tickets gates?

I mean, not just for boxing or other sports, but any show bizz spectacles.

Nobody's counting them, right?

crow wrote:Recently, there have been many off record allegations of artificially inflated PPV numbers.

And i thought to myself what would be the best way of laundering money, along with live tickets gates?

I mean, not just for boxing or other sports, but any show bizz spectacles.

Nobody's counting them, right?

Who gives a flying fornicate? Seriously!?!

This is a forum to discuss the sport of boxing… and you’ve raised a nonsense thread about money laundering and other fraudulent practices in the context of televised events in general? What a load of fúckíng búllshít!

The cable and satellite providers count them, they just don't care past their 50% cut and the numbers come in from different spots all over the country. Direct Tv and Comcast certainly couldn't care less about each others numbers. That's why a true figure is hard to report.

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:The cable and satellite providers count them, they just don't care past their 50% cut and the numbers come in from different spots all over the country. Direct Tv and Comcast certainly couldn't care less about each others numbers. That's why a true figure is hard to report.

How are promoters/fighters/network getting paid then if there is no exact numbers ?

boxing_rocks wrote:

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:The cable and satellite providers count them, they just don't care past their 50% cut and the numbers come in from different spots all over the country. Direct Tv and Comcast certainly couldn't care less about each others numbers. That's why a true figure is hard to report.

How are promoters/fighters/network getting paid then if there is no exact numbers ?

They get paid by the carriers exactly on those buys. That doesn't mean Comcast and their competitors would bother to tally it all up for everyone. like all business those checks can come at different times from dozens and dozens of different companies. So the promoter can say whatever they want, it's not like they're getting that money days later when they speculate buys.

Bob Arum alluded to the inflation of PPV numbers in this hilarious interview:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yE_tsPatoBU
(FF to 6:00, but you'll be denying yourself of some laughs )

Joe Boxer wrote:Bob Arum alluded to the inflation of PPV numbers in this hilarious interview:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yE_tsPatoBU
(FF to 6:00, but you'll be denying yourself of some laughs )

It takes a crook to know another.
Arum ranks at just about the very top of crooks rankings. And he blurted out the truth:

"900.000 PPV for UFC is the real number, instead of 1.700.000 announced"

So the system is in place not just for boxing.
How about the rest of showbizz?