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.
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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.
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 LatvianQuote:
Originally Posted by skel1983
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 ?!? :confused:
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
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark TKO
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.
What a fucking joke Haye Valuev on ppv???
Not a chance im paying for this, apparently i also read that Khan v Kotelnik only sold 30k PPV'S hahahahaha, I hope that is true.
Sky can fuck themselves if they thing Haye v Valuev warrents a £15 payment a fraudulent Champ fighting an untested Heavyweight not a fucking chance.
Haye hasnt even got a fanbase he sold only what 7-10 thousand tickets for the Barrett fight and that was with a buy one get one free offer.
Id be suprised if this broke 50k buys.
Agreed, Khan can at least say he sells out an arena. If they lowered the price a bit (and not 32p as they have) they would do much better. Half the price & they would probably do 3x the amount of sales. Also with streams so much easier to get now, they're far less likely to do the sales.Quote:
Originally Posted by skel1983
I admit that I bought the Khan fight because I prefer watching it on TV & there's no other fights comin' up, but with the Haye-Valuev one being in November, I can't see myself doing that with Cotto-Pacquiao a week later.
Apparently Hatton-Pacquiao only did about 400,000, less than a quarter of the Mayweather fight. Sky need to realize with a recession on the only way they'll be doing any business is either putting it on free & relying on more subscribers or doing a much cheaper PPV.
Hopefully the new ESPN channel picks up some boxing for us, because its not a good future with Sky :-\
i would pay half price, like u say would prob get more money that way as well, i much rather watching on my tv as apposed to streamerQuote:
Originally Posted by JazMerkinAgreed, Khan can at least say he sells out an arena. If they lowered the price a bit (and not 32p as they have) they would do much better. Half the price & they would probably do 3x the amount of sales. Also with streams so much easier to get now, they're far less likely to do the sales.Quote:
Originally Posted by skel1983
I admit that I bought the Khan fight because I prefer watching it on TV & there's no other fights comin' up, but with the Haye-Valuev one being in November, I can't see myself doing that with Cotto-Pacquiao a week later.
Apparently Hatton-Pacquiao only did about 400,000, less than a quarter of the Mayweather fight. Sky need to realize with a recession on the only way they'll be doing any business is either putting it on free & relying on more subscribers or doing a much cheaper PPV.
Hopefully the new ESPN channel picks up some boxing for us, because its not a good future with Sky :-\
wonder if espn is gonna show any?
I spoke to Sky about this PPV and they told me that it was NOT them who chose to put it on PPV but the promoters.
So for the Amir Khan fights - Frank Warren and Amir Khan have decided that they will be PPV.
Same as Mayweather and Haye.
Not sure I believe them and obviously something is in it for Sky, but it sucks anyway.
No do not believe Sky, they started this ppv in the UK in the first place, they are charging subscribers twice this way.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Rela
How the hell is it upto the promoter??Quote:
Originally Posted by The Rela
The network negotiates a price with the promoter for the fight/fighter and then its upto the network how they make a profit on the fight they have purchased from the promoter whether it is through advertisment or ppv or more subscribtions.
Warren and co basically sell there fights to the highest bidder.