Damn UFC Dana White talking trash on Boxing and Oscar De La Hoya.

[albsur2006]

I think boxing should adopt a WWE/UFC approach to PPV... it would certainly justify shelling the money out more. Could you imagine this PPV:

in no particular order..

Hatton vs Pac Man
Haye vs Vitali
Calzaghe vs Dawson


That alone I imagine would outsell any one of those possible PPV's on their own by 3:1..

As someone who watches PPV's alot I don't feel interested to watch the actual PPV until the main event, which lasts on average 1 hour.. that's £15 for one hour. And I imagine the same could be said about alot of other people on here.. maybe not, but I don't enjoy watching prospects fight no names and knock them out within 2-3 rounds.

That would be an AWESOME type of card but because of the law of diminishing returns it wouldn't do 3 times the numbers like you're saying. There is a limit on how much these cards can possibly make. No matter how many high profile fights there are on one card, that one card still can only make so much money. That's what promoters realized and why they started putting fights on different cards altogether.

But what these promoters could do is use big high profile main events to make great economically feasible fights on the undercard. Like the Pac-ODLH PPV for example, if Izzy was healthy they could have given Izzy and Rafa 1-1.5 Million each to stage their epic fourth fight on the undercard. Even though the two are at the top of their sport, the smaller guys make less money so it'd be easier to get an awesome, serious quality fight on the undercard. Or throw in a couple million extra to get a high profile name like a Hatton or Pavlik or Pac or Tony to fight one of their mandatories. These guys even though they are stars, don't make that much money for their mandatory defenses so those fights are affordable and are reasonably competitive. Those IMO are good examples of how undercards can realistically improve. This should be happening now but the only thing stopping it from happening is straight up GREED.

Having Victor Ortiz (who is a prospect and makes hardly anything anyways) fight a washed up former prospect as the main undercard fight is complete BULLSHIT. That should maybe be an opening undercard fight. What pisses me off is that they defend the undercard by saying "we're profiling our young stars". No, you're paying fighters who don't make a lot to wipe out their overmatched opponents, who make even less. All while the main eventers are raping the revenue.