Thread: Boxing only channel

Originally Posted by Galaxy.

I'd buy it, got to be than whats usually on the box!

How much would you pay Galaxy? Max that is.

Even At Per-subsciber,The Push Would Be To Stay Current and Blur the lines, IMO Water Down the Contents.I would watch bio's On anyone from Ben Lopez,Harold Brazier,Paquiao...But Overtime Its Spinks Kleenex Commercials & Roy Jones Jr. 2 For 1 DvD Ad'sFor His wanna be hip hop Videos & F.Maywither On MTV's "Crib's".
No MMA,Wrestling,ETC. Only 24 Hr. Boxing=Name Your Price!

whats wrong with the fight network its shows nothing but fights and the odd wrestling events but tonnes of boxing as well as MMA.
its an awsome channel.

Originally Posted by Doot

whats wrong with the fight network its shows nothing but fights and the odd wrestling events but tonnes of boxing as well as MMA.
its an awsome channel.

Hey Doot ,was up?The Only Problem with The fight network is that I don't have it.How long Has It Been around and where?Do You Pay Only For that one channel or is it part of a "Package" deal?
If I Had a chance to sudscribe to a boxing network for a monthley fee,that's all I want.Down here if you want MMA You have a total Of Eight Times during the week.And I Mean Cards,Not just fights.If you want Wrestling,You have a total of 5 different franchise's (WWE owns 3) and they show on five different nights total.
In Short,a "boxing network" Should Be That.Boxing.Boxing Is In A Major transition over the last decade.I LOve This sport,I LOve The Fighters,the individual life stories.I lOve the history of boxing and I think were in danger of losing alot that makes it so different from other sports...and IMO the truest and finest sport I will ever know. sorry,I Get ardent at times.

Booze, you and I share the same thing in common, I only have HBO and Showtime for the same reason. At one point, I asked if I could get a reduced rate if they got rid of HBO 2....Showtime 2... Cinimax and TMC. All I wanted was standard HBO and Showtime. I wanted them only for boxing. But of course, it's more expensive to have just 2 channels than it is to have 17.

If a boxing only channel meant that I would get to see current fights from all over the world I would buy it in a heartbeat. One of the things I hate most about the posts here is that I don't always know who the people are talking about. There are some really good fighters out there and I feel like I'm missing out when I've never been privileged enough to see them fight.

Originally Posted by slk123

Booze, you and I share the same thing in common, I only have HBO and Showtime for the same reason. At one point, I asked if I could get a reduced rate if they got rid of HBO 2....Showtime 2... Cinimax and TMC. All I wanted was standard HBO and Showtime. I wanted them only for boxing. But of course, it's more expensive to have just 2 channels than it is to have 17.

If a boxing only channel meant that I would get to see current fights from all over the world I would buy it in a heartbeat. One of the things I hate most about the posts here is that I don't always know who the people are talking about. There are some really good fighters out there and I feel like I'm missing out when I've never been privileged enough to see them fight.

Slk,Aren't you around the orleans area.Trade fights.Seek Knowledge?

All you have to do is get people to realize it will make a lot of money. At best a big fight will only get 1 million buys at $50 a clip. Don't let the news fool you, boxing has a huge global fan base. So the money would break down like this:

1million at $50 an order = 50million dollars for one fight 15 such fights a year $750million off of ppv per year

or

100million globally (modest estimate) at $40 a year for boxing channel encompassing all ppv fights and some news/old fights = 4billion dollars a year made from station.

Makes sense to me.

Originally Posted by Punisher136

All you have to do is get people to realize it will make a lot of money. At best a big fight will only get 1 million buys at $50 a clip. Don't let the news fool you, boxing has a huge global fan base. So the money would break down like this:

1million at $50 an order = 50million dollars for one fight 15 such fights a year $750million off of ppv per year

or

100million globally (modest estimate) at $40 a year for boxing channel encompassing all ppv fights and some news/old fights = 4billion dollars a year made from station.

Makes sense to me.

You seriously think 100 million people would subscribe to a boxing channel. Dude you are crazy

Originally Posted by slk123

Booze, you and I share the same thing in common, I only have HBO and Showtime for the same reason. At one point, I asked if I could get a reduced rate if they got rid of HBO 2....Showtime 2... Cinimax and TMC. All I wanted was standard HBO and Showtime. I wanted them only for boxing. But of course, it's more expensive to have just 2 channels than it is to have 17.

If a boxing only channel meant that I would get to see current fights from all over the world I would buy it in a heartbeat. One of the things I hate most about the posts here is that I don't always know who the people are talking about. There are some really good fighters out there and I feel like I'm missing out when I've never been privileged enough to see them fight.

Yes, I hate that I am not more aware of all the good global fighters as well. With HBO and Showtime I am generally confined in my knowledge of fighters because they are usually US marquee fighters, many are on the way down by the time the name is established....
I know that there are TONS of quality fighters in Europe and South America but I'm not aware of them usually. ESPN keeps me updated on American mediocrity and irrelevant fights as well as a dedication to Ali and Tyson fights that is perverse.
I also have VS and the spanish channel.......I have managed ot watch an occassional good fight on there, Kid Diamond what not. HOwever I can turn all my English channels to Spanish, but I can not turn my Spanish channel to English translation. That is dumb.

Originally Posted by Jeff Spicoli Surfs In 'Nawlins

Originally Posted by slk123

Booze, you and I share the same thing in common, I only have HBO and Showtime for the same reason. At one point, I asked if I could get a reduced rate if they got rid of HBO 2....Showtime 2... Cinimax and TMC. All I wanted was standard HBO and Showtime. I wanted them only for boxing. But of course, it's more expensive to have just 2 channels than it is to have 17.

If a boxing only channel meant that I would get to see current fights from all over the world I would buy it in a heartbeat. One of the things I hate most about the posts here is that I don't always know who the people are talking about. There are some really good fighters out there and I feel like I'm missing out when I've never been privileged enough to see them fight.

Slk,Aren't you around the orleans area.Trade fights.Seek Knowledge?

The office is in Harahan (but has an NO mailing address ?) Our clients are all over the place but I spend most of my time in the Metairie/Kenner/NO area. If you want to get together just pm me with a time and day. I'll see what I can do. btw I have never pm someone before but we can give it a shot.

so what fighters are of interest?Gotta Help A fellow louisianaian get informed on the fight game.I Have collected tapes since 86' traded and recorded and watched everything since.

Originally Posted by Jeff Spicoli Surfs In 'Nawlins

so what fighters are of interest?Gotta Help A fellow louisianaian get informed on the fight game.I Have collected tapes since 86' traded and recorded and watched everything since.

Don't have a collection of my own. I do enjoy watching old fights on espn classic from time to time but it has to be fights I haven't seen before. At that point, any fighter will do.

Originally Posted by Bilbo

Originally Posted by Punisher136

All you have to do is get people to realize it will make a lot of money. At best a big fight will only get 1 million buys at $50 a clip. Don't let the news fool you, boxing has a huge global fan base. So the money would break down like this:

1million at $50 an order = 50million dollars for one fight 15 such fights a year $750million off of ppv per year

or

100million globally (modest estimate) at $40 a year for boxing channel encompassing all ppv fights and some news/old fights = 4billion dollars a year made from station.

Makes sense to me.

You seriously think 100 million people would subscribe to a boxing channel. Dude you are crazy 

Hence it being a global station. Instead of having to find different stations depending on where you live (Hbo, sky sports, etc.) its all under one roof and you can specify who you want it to follow ala nfl 24/7 pay channel. I think way more than 100 million would subscribe worldwide for 40 a year. Thats like 20 over in the UK and the biggest complaint about boxing is all the ppv's and how expensive they are. People could care less about the belt rankings and all that just as long as they can see the fights.

A portion of the proceeds could go towards treating retired boxer's needs. If done correctly, this thing could be a monster.

Originally Posted by Punisher136

Originally Posted by Bilbo

Originally Posted by Punisher136

All you have to do is get people to realize it will make a lot of money. At best a big fight will only get 1 million buys at $50 a clip. Don't let the news fool you, boxing has a huge global fan base. So the money would break down like this:

1million at $50 an order = 50million dollars for one fight 15 such fights a year $750million off of ppv per year

or

100million globally (modest estimate) at $40 a year for boxing channel encompassing all ppv fights and some news/old fights = 4billion dollars a year made from station.

Makes sense to me.

You seriously think 100 million people would subscribe to a boxing channel. Dude you are crazy

Hence it being a global station. Instead of having to find different stations depending on where you live (Hbo, sky sports, etc.) its all under one roof and you can specify who you want it to follow ala nfl 24/7 pay channel. I think way more than 100 million would subscribe worldwide for 40 a year. Thats like 20 over in the UK and the biggest complaint about boxing is all the ppv's and how expensive they are. People could care less about the belt rankings and all that just as long as they can see the fights.

There are only 100 million or so Sky cstomers in the whole of the United Kingdom across all channels, no way in hell 20 million Brits would sign up just for a boxing channel, soccer maybe but boxing no way. It's not even in the top 5 British sports.

Plus there is no way in hell that the promoters and media companies would allow a subscriber to watch all the PPV fights for a one off payment of $40 dollars per year

The media companies know only too well that it's basically the same people repeat ordering the majority of the fights.

A person who orders the Mosely Cotto PPV will almost certainly also order the Barrera Pacquiao and Hatton Mayweather PPV's as well.

Your whole business plan is flawed. I would imagine that most of the PPV's are bought regularly by a hardcore group of fans, i.e 4 or more PPV events each per year, some even more.

It would make no economic sense whatsoever to create a channel where everyone gets to see all the PPV fights for a one of £40 subscription.

It wouldn't mean more sales overall, it would just mean the hardcore only pay once per year rather than half a dozen times, great news for the fans but commerical suicide for the boxing promoters, fighters, governing bodies etc.