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10k in attendance @ MEN & 100 million watching on PPV tonight
Posted: 25 Aug 2018, 13:30
by SAPFO
Youtube stars KSI vs Logan Paul - Who?
This is 'Rocky' for my 10 year old. Load of bollocks, but anybody have any clue how it hits these numbers?
Re: 10k in attendance @ MEN & 100 million watching on PPV tonight
Posted: 25 Aug 2018, 13:33
by Boxerbeetle
They’re massive with the yoof, innit
Re: 10k in attendance @ MEN & 100 million watching on PPV tonight
Posted: 25 Aug 2018, 13:35
by Stuarty
Can't quite get why they're so popular. My 10 year old boy watches the pricks and asked me to buy the fight for him. There's no way I'm buying it but he can try Kodi and I'll have a look as there's nothing else on.
The two of them come across a right pair of fuckin helmets! Each to their own I suppose....
Re: 10k in attendance @ MEN & 100 million watching on PPV tonight
Posted: 25 Aug 2018, 13:45
by nickcat0
My son tells me that "youtubers" are massive celebrities for today's youth.
I suppose if back in the 70's or 80's, people like McEnroe and Connors; Coe and Ovett; Revie and Clough; or McCartney and Lennon had decided to settle their diffeRences in the ring, it would have drawn a crowd. This is today's equivalent.
Re: 10k in attendance @ MEN & 100 million watching on PPV tonight
Posted: 25 Aug 2018, 14:05
by mickey1975
Pewdipie has FOUR BILLION hits on YouTube....
Re: 10k in attendance @ MEN & 100 million watching on PPV tonight
Posted: 25 Aug 2018, 14:06
by Nightmare Roy
They are what marketers call social influencers, it's amazing some of these helmets earn £10m plus a year out of their Youtube channels.
Re: 10k in attendance @ MEN & 100 million watching on PPV tonight
Posted: 25 Aug 2018, 14:26
by tobyh5
mickey1975 wrote: ↑25 Aug 2018, 14:05
Pewdipie has FOUR BILLION hits on YouTube....
Which is the modern way of bullshitting figures to make them more impressive. Lots of views for sure, some videos getting 9million, most getting 3.5-6million. Add them all up and it probably does hit that four billion number but its the same people viewing it. Plus some people watch more than once and count as a hit each time.
It is like saying 1.4billion people watched Eastenders last year. No, 7m watched each episode, and there was 200 episodes.
Re: 10k in attendance @ MEN & 100 million watching on PPV tonight
Posted: 25 Aug 2018, 14:38
by Stuarty
Nightmare Roy wrote: ↑25 Aug 2018, 14:06
They are what marketers call social influencers, it's amazing some of these helmets earn £10m plus a year out of their Youtube channels.
Good gig if you can get it! My boy is watching it on his iPad just now. I've not had a look at it yet. One of my mates said Michael Buffer is doing the ring announcing

Re: 10k in attendance @ MEN & 100 million watching on PPV tonight
Posted: 25 Aug 2018, 14:40
by Nightmare Roy
Stuarty wrote: ↑25 Aug 2018, 14:38
Nightmare Roy wrote: ↑25 Aug 2018, 14:06
They are what marketers call social influencers, it's amazing some of these helmets earn £10m plus a year out of their Youtube channels.
Good gig if you can get it! My boy is watching it on his iPad just now. I've not had a look at it yet. One of my mates said Michael Buffer is doing the ring announcing
Yeah good luck to them, who ever the fcuk they are, apparently they are earning purses like Mayweather tonight, fcuking nuts! Still beats doing drill music for fcuk all and getting stabbed up.
Re: 10k in attendance @ MEN & 100 million watching on PPV tonight
Posted: 25 Aug 2018, 14:43
by Stuarty
Nightmare Roy wrote: ↑25 Aug 2018, 14:40
Stuarty wrote: ↑25 Aug 2018, 14:38
Nightmare Roy wrote: ↑25 Aug 2018, 14:06
They are what marketers call social influencers, it's amazing some of these helmets earn £10m plus a year out of their Youtube channels.
Good gig if you can get it! My boy is watching it on his iPad just now. I've not had a look at it yet. One of my mates said Michael Buffer is doing the ring announcing
Yeah good luck to them, who ever the fcuk they are, apparently they are earning purses like Mayweather tonight, fcuking nuts! Still beats doing drill music for fcuk all and getting stabbed up.
I watched a programme on that shít recently

Fuckin scrotums the lot of em
It was the folks family after they'd been killed saying 'he wasn't in to gangs' etc... Then there's a rap video of the goon with a bulldog and a bag of talcum powder giving it the big I am!
Re: 10k in attendance @ MEN & 100 million watching on PPV tonight
Posted: 25 Aug 2018, 14:52
by SAPFO
I’ve got my 10 yr old telling me the 2 time former HW champion Shannon Briggs is there. I told him he’s a drug cheat, and he’s been shite for my lads whole lifetime. He said “I don’t care, I wanna see his next fight”....
... could 100 million kids force Camp Eddie to pit AJ vs the YouTube sensation Shannon Briggs?
Fackin kill me now
Re: 10k in attendance @ MEN & 100 million watching on PPV tonight
Posted: 25 Aug 2018, 15:03
by Stuarty
SAPFO wrote: ↑25 Aug 2018, 14:52
I’ve got my 10 yr old telling me the 2 time former HW champion Shannon Briggs is there. I told him he’s a drug cheat, and he’s been shite for my lads whole lifetime. He said “I don’t care, I wanna see his next fight”....
... could 100 million kids force Camp Eddie to pit AJ vs the YouTube sensation Shannon Briggs?
Fackin kill me now
My ten year old just ran in the room 10 mins ago asking if I knew who Briggs was
I told him Lennox Lewis and Vitali Klitschko made him their bitch and he is a roid nut

Re: 10k in attendance @ MEN & 100 million watching on PPV tonight
Posted: 25 Aug 2018, 15:11
by Exoddus
My siblings an I grew up on VHS tapes of Van Damme and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Kids these days grow up watching these idiots on YouTube. I don't understand it either. Just people being over overexuberant shouting at the camera while doing stupid stuff.
Re: 10k in attendance @ MEN & 100 million watching on PPV tonight
Posted: 25 Aug 2018, 15:22
by maverick23
There’s no way it’ll get 100m buys! That would make it the highest grossing fight ever I think.
From what I read from the promoter they were looking at getting at least a couple of million buys which is still crazy!
Re: 10k in attendance @ MEN & 100 million watching on PPV tonight
Posted: 25 Aug 2018, 15:29
by Stuarty
I walks in to the spare room and my boy is standing shadow boxing in front of the mirror watching it! Yet when I try and get him to watch fights he has the attention span of a fuckin goldfish!
There was some prick with a big jacket on rapping in the ring there

Brrrap brrrrap blud
Re: 10k in attendance @ MEN & 100 million watching on PPV tonight
Posted: 25 Aug 2018, 15:34
by jlh
750k watching it on one the YouTube channels. Costing £7.50. Not bad at all.
That's only watching. More will have paid but are only going to watch when main event starts.
Re: 10k in attendance @ MEN & 100 million watching on PPV tonight
Posted: 25 Aug 2018, 15:37
by lillywhite14
nickcat0 wrote: ↑25 Aug 2018, 13:45
My son tells me that "youtubers" are massive celebrities for today's youth.
I suppose if back in the 70's or 80's, people like McEnroe and Connors; Coe and Ovett; Revie and Clough; or McCartney and Lennon had decided to settle their diffeRences in the ring, it would have drawn a crowd. This is today's equivalent.
These lot had serious talent and were masters in their worthwhile field.
Today’s yoots seem dumber than any previous generation. Bloggers and vloggers held up as idols...something has gone majorly wrong!
I kind of hope one of them gets hurt
Re: 10k in attendance @ MEN & 100 million watching on PPV tonight
Posted: 25 Aug 2018, 15:39
by Stuarty
lillywhite14 wrote: ↑25 Aug 2018, 15:37
nickcat0 wrote: ↑25 Aug 2018, 13:45
My son tells me that "youtubers" are massive celebrities for today's youth.
I suppose if back in the 70's or 80's, people like McEnroe and Connors; Coe and Ovett; Revie and Clough; or McCartney and Lennon had decided to settle their diffeRences in the ring, it would have drawn a crowd. This is today's equivalent.
These lot had serious talent and were masters in their worthwhile field.
Today’s yoots seem dumber than any previous generation. Bloggers and vloggers held up as idols...something has gone majorly wrong!
I
kind of hope one of them gets hurt
Want to see one of them cry

Re: 10k in attendance @ MEN & 100 million watching on PPV tonight
Posted: 25 Aug 2018, 15:46
by Ruthless-RKO
Badou Jack was at the weigh in too
Re: 10k in attendance @ MEN & 100 million watching on PPV tonight
Posted: 25 Aug 2018, 15:50
by SAPFO
Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑25 Aug 2018, 15:46
Badou Jack was at the weigh in too
Badoo Jack in involved, along with Eubank Jr, and Maywether Snr my lads says
Re: 10k in attendance @ MEN & 100 million watching on PPV tonight
Posted: 25 Aug 2018, 15:56
by sweetscience
I walked passed MEN Arena at 1pm today
100s of gimps waiting around the tradesman entrance, 7 hours in advance
they weren't little kids either, all circa 18/20 year old
id couldn't containment disappointment in them, whilst shouting out 'loooossseerrrs' ala Lloyd in Dumb & Dumber
Re: 10k in attendance @ MEN & 100 million watching on PPV tonight
Posted: 25 Aug 2018, 16:08
by BobD'Mello
Nobody doing a RBR?

Re: 10k in attendance @ MEN & 100 million watching on PPV tonight
Posted: 25 Aug 2018, 16:33
by KiwiRider
It would be OK if it got the yoof into proper boxing. But it won't.
Try explaining to your 13 year old about the belts and who is champion, and watching their eyes glaze over...

Re: 10k in attendance @ MEN & 100 million watching on PPV tonight
Posted: 25 Aug 2018, 16:39
by Boxerbeetle
KiwiRider wrote: ↑25 Aug 2018, 16:33
It would be OK if it got the yoof into proper boxing. But it won't.
Try explaining to your 13 year old about the belts and who is champion, and watching their eyes glaze over...
To be fair, it is a bit ridiculous when you need to go into a 10 minute explanation when someone asks who the heavyweight champ is

Re: 10k in attendance @ MEN & 100 million watching on PPV tonight
Posted: 25 Aug 2018, 16:43
by KiwiRider
Boxerbeetle wrote: ↑25 Aug 2018, 16:39
KiwiRider wrote: ↑25 Aug 2018, 16:33
It would be OK if it got the yoof into proper boxing. But it won't.
Try explaining to your 13 year old about the belts and who is champion, and watching their eyes glaze over...
To be fair, it is a bit ridiculous when you need to go into a 10 minute explanation when someone asks who the heavyweight champ is
Or 175 posts over 7 pages on a boxing forum
Ya have to laugh, otherwise it's depressing.