Sky PPV

[Master]

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.

[skel1983]

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.

[JazMerkin]

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.

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

[Drago]

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.

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 streamer

[Drago]

wonder if espn is gonna show any?

[The Rela]

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.

[Master]

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.

[skel1983]

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.

How the hell is it upto the promoter??

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.