The February 22 Fury-Wilder PPV reportedly did between 800,000 and 850,000 pay-per-view buys with apparently 10x that number viewing the fight on illegal streams.
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DAZN is currently available in nine countries (Austria, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the United States). By May that number will expand to 200 countries, starting with Canelo vs. TBA on May 2.
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Ring legends Julio Cesar Chavez, 57, and Jorge “Travieso” Arce, 40, will fight in an exhibition on Saturday at the Centro de Usos Múltiples in Hermosillo, Mexico. They previously did it in Tijuana four months ago. This is a “rematch.”
Pretty good numbers for the Wilder vs Fury Rematch. Maybe they should think about lowering the price of PPV since they say millions were watching illegal streams. Less than 2 months away and Canelo is still fighting TBA? smh
For the 3rd fight, I think they should pay us to watch it.
Arturo, good points. Illegal stream viewing is par for the course when it comes to the modernized digital age. Yes, I am aware how this indirectly hurts the sport and all its associated parts. However, I don’t make the rules up. The movie industry takes a big blow due to the illegal piracy uploading done on a daily basis.
If you think Deontay Wilder is overhyped, take a look at Michael “Mini Mike” Bloomberg. He could not last 1 round against Joe “Pasty Perv” Biden. Nor did he do well against Bernie “I need to go to Bellevue Psychiatric” Sanders. He also failed to beat Elizabeth “1/1,024th The Truth” Warren. Bloomberg is a bloody mess. An absolute joke.
Bloomberg got crushed last night. He got destroyed. He is a punk.
Read rule 1… this is supposed to be about boxing. Who cares about the US elections?
I am not really into politics, but I will say Bloomberg’s checkbook is so big, he will never have to worry about money in his savings unlike all of us.
And yet he’s still worth about $55bln, none of which came from his parents or siblings and never once had to file for bankruptcy, scam thousands of people with a fake university or an IPO for a failed casino business or take laundered money from Russian oligarchs.
At the end of the day I think Mike Bloomberg will be just fine running his financial data and media empire.
No politics please.
Why, Jonathan? Why? Why do you insist on worshipping Trump and talk politics? If you just looked around, this is a boxing site where the fans talk about the boxers and the fights. Please!