Quote Originally Posted by shza
Quote Originally Posted by chamiley
Its reported on boxingscene. I am amazaed that with such a huge gurantee this fight is still on regular HBO. I pray that this will start the trend of more mega fights being telecast on regular HBO
I seriously don't understand where this money is going to come from. Obviously the gate's not going to bring in any significant amount of $24M, and I can't imagine HBO is willing to pay much for this given the poor viewership Calzaghe's last PPV fight got. So if there's $0 in PPV revenue, honestly, where the hell are they getting $24M from (in addition to all the money they'll need to spend on overhead, promotion, etc.)? This makes absolutely no sense to me.
Maybe European TV rights. or since Joe calzaghe is so popular in Europe that it might be PPV over there coz hatton-mayweather did more PPV buys in Europe than in North America