Are PPVs ruining boxing?

[FinitoElDinamita]

PPVs are damaging to the sport but more importantly, the shrinkage of quality matchups due to politics is the bigger problem imo..

I had no issues ordering Don King ppvs in the 90s..

[bradlee180]

Yeah, boxing was beginning to get ruined by ppv in the mid-1980s, and it's just got worse and worse with each decade.

At least then, PPV was saved for only the biggest fights featuring the biggest Draws, and free tv still hosted plenty of World Championship fights. Then these promoters started trying to put every piece of $#!t fight on ppv... even if it featured guys that were not Draws.

[bradlee180]

It's bull$#!t, people pay for HBO, then they gotta pay extra for the Boxing event on HBO...

[Mark TKO]

PPVs are damaging to the sport but more importantly, the shrinkage of quality matchups due to politics is the bigger problem imo..

I had no issues ordering Don King ppvs in the 90s..

agreed - I paid for every fight going up to a few years ago

[walrus]

Good point. We don't pay for the Super Bowl or the World Series. If these fights were on regular TV it may cut the purse at first but if it allowed boxing to be to become mainstream again it would probably increase revenue over time. Stupid to limit boxings appeal in such a way but I guess for now the number crunchers figured it was the way to go. It just pissed me off I pay for Showtime and HBO and they make these fights that shouldn't be ppv.

[Master]

Make the Superbowl ppv and watch the millionaire players become billionaires but only a small group of people paying for it. Sport would die.

[FinitoElDinamita]

Blame the government for not stepping in... if I was a promoter, id do the same thing..

[Master]

Make golf ppv, basketball, tennis, athletics, ice hockey let's piss everyone off.

[TitoFan]

Make golf ppv, basketball, tennis, athletics, ice hockey let's piss everyone off.

Shhh... don't say that too loud. They're probably already planning it.

PPV is like a virus. It's just gonna continue to spread to unworthy fights (it has already), and eventually to sports we now watch for free. It's the ever-present tendency of the capitalist world. Some may not remember life before cable TV, but it used to be that broadcasted programs were free. All you had to do was buy the TV set. Same goes for bottled water, pay toilets, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.

So we can piss and moan all we want. Soon enough we'll have Joe Blow fighting Mike Schmuck on PPV for a "mere" $200 PPV fee, and we'll still be bitching while reaching into our pockets to shell out the money.

[beenKOed]

Make golf ppv, basketball, tennis, athletics, ice hockey let's piss everyone off.

Oh yeah, they're going to be pissed. At you!
Don't go outside for a few weeks, you are going to have people carrying golf clubs, hockey sticks, baseball bats and I don't know what all looking for you.

[Dropanuke]

Make golf ppv, basketball, tennis, athletics, ice hockey let's piss everyone off.

What a dumb arse person you are.
No wonder nobody responds to you

[DannyV297]

Blame the government for not stepping in... if I was a promoter, id do the same thing..

Absolutely, that's why promoters get no love