Thread: Sky PPV

I have heard a horrible rumour that Mayweather v JMM and Haye v Kilt will be on the ppv channel. I hope it is wrong as this is simply a rip off.

I got rid of sky sports because of that very reason... i only had it for the boxing and as all the main fights are on PPV i thought why bother... i'll just buy the PPV if they are worth it.

To be fair, the Mayweather-Marquez undercard is looking to be the best one we've had in sometime, with competitive fights right down the card.

But, Haye-Klitschko will most definitely not have that. I bet if they offered both for £20 they would make a bundle more than having them separate. I may stream the Haye-Klitschko one as that's a lot less likely to get shut off halfway through by HBO

i would prefer it to be on PPV cos i aint got skysports that way i have a choice, but thats for me for boxing in the UK it should be on skysports or even better terrestrial

The Mayweather undercard should be good I hope that Jamie Moore gets a slot on there against Martinez he deserves it.

Originally Posted by skel1983

The Mayweather undercard should be good I hope that Jamie Moore gets a slot on there against Martinez he deserves it.

I think Martinez is fighting him a week later in Madrid. If they got that on there as well, it would be as good a card for a super-fight as we've had this decade. Too often its the super-fight, a quality low profile fighter against a guy really not on his level, then bums waiting to get beat up by prospects. Hearing that Victor Ortiz might be on here as well, so this one's looking good. I'm sure the Haye undercard will be terrible though, Ryan Rhodes fighting some one-legged blind Latvian

They wont have two PPVs one week apart.

As good as the card is for hardcores, Floyd-Marquez will do complete shit, there needs to be UK bill added to that.

Both of these are PPV.

I'm only buying the Haye-Bitchsko one. Ain't paying £15 to watch Mayweather beat up a lightweight.

right I must have missed something here

Has Haye v Klitschko been confirmed ?!?

well i just searched all over net - nothing says it is confirmed

some say expected to be confirmed at any time but thats it

remember when a PPV card was a real PPV card tyson v holyfield, michael moorer vs botha, benn v collins cant remember all of them but was like 6 title fights all for a £15

Originally Posted by Mark TKO

right I must have missed something here

Has Haye v Klitschko been confirmed ?!?

A deal has been reached for September the 12th just waiting for the contracts to be sent back, something like that anyways but its virtually a done deal Richard Schaefer said.

Here's the link Mark

V. Klitschko, Haye reach deal

Well Haye vs Valuev will be on PPV, something I'm not that keen on paying for particularly with Pacquiao vs Cotto a week later.

However, I thought it was interesting to note the final paragraph

The fight will be the fourth blockbusting world title fight shown on Sky Box Office this year.

This leads me to think that hopefully the Floyd/Marquez fight might be free

The fight between WBC World Heavyweight Champion Vitali Klitschko and Briton David Haye has been canceled. It was scheduled for September, 12th, in the Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt, Germany.

“First of all, I feel sorry for the team of the Commerzbank-Arena and for the boxing fans in the Frankfurt region. We will try to set up another Klitschko fight in this wonderful arena as soon as possible. Also for us, the cancellation was very surprising as we got informed about it through the media. Haye’s manager, Adam Booth, did not even have the courage to give me a call personally and tell me about their decision – for me a sign of his inexistent class. Background of the pull-out are definitely the bad pay-per-view-TV figures of BSkyB in England”, said Bernd Böente, Managing Director of the Klitschko Management Group.

The last fights of Ricky Hatton and new English shooting star Amir Khan (last weekend against Andreas Kotelnik) both had very poor sales on TV (Khan vs. Kotelnik less than 30,000 viewers). It was Haye’s desire to base his purse on the British TV earnings.

“Haye and his manager, whose home base is in the Turkish part of Cyprus for fiscal reasons, seem to have realized all of a sudden, that we have a global economic depression and English boxing fans are not that easily willing to pay 15 pounds for a bout. All the excuses of adhesion contracts are complete rubbish as Haye had already signed the same contract for the fight against Wladimir in June, which also contained a usual rematch clause and a pure Klitschko option. And for that fight he also pulled out. By the way, Vitali and myself attended Haye’s last fight against Monte Barrett at the O2 Arena in London. There were possibly 6.000 fans in a 20.000 seat arena. The guy is not a big draw in England at all. We were always surprised that he expected to get 2.7 million pounds out of the English pay-per-view sales for a fight against Vitali or Wladimir,” Böente added.