Talking Boxing PPVs on TalknShoot Podcast #46 – In this latest edition of the TalknShoot Boxing Podcast we take a look at the boxing calendar and some of the big pay-per-view events that are scheduled from now until the end of the year.
When it comes to PPVs this summer, the chatter surrounds the August 26th bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Conor McGregor. The price was recently announced as $89.95 for the PPV and $99,95 for the HD version of the feed, which is high. The question is not going to be whether people pony up money for the Mayweather vs McGregor fight but how much they will have left for “Canelo” Alvarez versus Gennady Golovkin.
HBO’s most recent PPV featured a highly competitive rematch between light heavyweight kingpins Andre Ward and Sergey Kovalev and the pairing failed to improve on the PPV numbers from their first meeting last November, again getting roughly 200,000 sales. HBO has invested heavily in the match up of Ward and Kovalev and it is hard to see how HBO executives would be happy with the low number of PPV buys.
Alvarez vs Golovkin is being pushed as the next big PPV and HBO has certainly put a lot behind both Alvarez and Triple “G” over the last few years. Now, all the parties may see their bottom lines affected by the presence of the Mayweather Jr vs McGregor PPV.
Talking Boxing PPVs on TalknShoot Podcast #46
Golden Boy Promotions is delivering Saul “Canelo” Alvarez versus Gennady Golovkin on Saturday, September 16th in ehat they are hoping is the biggest boxing PPV of the year. Alvarez already cleared 1 million PPV buys earlier in 2017 when he faced off against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr in an all-Mexican showdown and the highly anticipated fight with middleweight kingpin Golovkin is expected to be in the neighborhood. Two 1 million plus buy pay-per-views in a year makes for a pretty good year for Alvarez and GBP.
It will be an especially strong year for Alvarez and GBP if they clear 1 million PPV butys for Alvarez vs Golovkin in ligh tof the fact that “Canelo” did not total that number of buys over two PPV offerings in 2016. Alvarez May of 2016 bout with Amir Khan drew 600,000 PPV buys and he saw that total drop off to 300,000 for the Liam Smith fight.
The 2015 Floyd Mayweather Jr versus manny Pacquiao PPV still holds the record for PPV sales at 4..4 million but that lackluster fight left most buyers with a bad taste in their mouth. many attribute boxing PPV’s dip in numbers last year to that and lo and behold, all of a sudden during what many are calling a boxing renaissance, little Floyd Joy is back.
Golovkin shows off his IBF, WBA and WBC world titles.
The podcast also talks about the aftermath of Manny Pacquiao’s ill-fated trip to Australia that saw him fall to Jeff Horn. The legendary Filipino boxer lost his WBO world welterweight title and fell to 59-7-2 overall with a unanimous decision loss to Horn. The fight was not on PPV in the United States but rather aired on ESPN’s main service. The loss means that Pacquiao will likely never be considered a top shelf PPV commodity again.
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