A few charges on Monday. This Saturday is the first really busy Saturday of 2022 with cards on FOX and DAZN, plus $104.98 worth of PPVs. Here is the lineup:
PPV – 3PM ET/Noon PT ($29.99)
Chris Eubank Jr. vs. Liam Williams (middleweight)
Claressa Shields vs. Ema Kozin (female middleweight)
Note: Twice delayed card finally happening
FOX – 7PM ET/4PM PT
Abel Ramos vs. Luke Santamaria (welterweight)
Note: Lead-in to the Thurman-Barrios PPV
DAZN – 8PM ET/5PM PT
Jesse Rodriguez vs. Carlos Cuadras (WBC superfly title)
Note: Rodriguez steps in as a late sub for Srisaket Sor Rungvisai
PPV – 9PM ET/6PM PT ($74.99)
Keith Thurman vs. Mario Barrios (welterweight)
Leo Santa Cruz vs. Keenan Carbajal (super featherweight)
Luis Nery vs. Carlos Castro (super bantamweight)
Note: Thurman returns for the first time since losing to Manny Pacquiao in 2019.
Amazing how nearly every fight card with a somewhat known name on the roster are now being sold to us as PPV events, even fight cards where the main event contestants aren’t even competing for a title. What a joke. This Thurman-Barrios event is hardly worthy being a PPV event and at $74.99 makes it even far more absurd.
I thought Josesito Lopez was fighting Ramos on the PPV. Anyone know what happened?
Josesito got injured.
Thanks Lucie!
A PPV event where all the fighters are coming off loses. This has to be a first. Barrios got starched by Tank, a 135 lb champ, Nery got stretched by the heartbreak kid, Thurman got out hustled and dropped by a 40+ pacman. Leo gave a good performance while it lasted but was on the wrong side of the KO of the year. ESPN card at best. These promoters are out of their minds.
Few, but very few fights are nowadays worthy to be a PPV, and the ones for this weekend aren’t by far, especially the one charging $74.99. Maybe justifiably PPV could be Canelo vs Beterbiev or Benavidez, Gervonta Davis vs Lomachenko and few others, but Thurman vs Barrios a $ 74.99 PPV event is laughable
$75 Bucks for that??!!! HeLL, Thurman has been MIA for 2 years and you’re gonna ask me for $75! But like it’s Crawford/Spence right?! You’d think they would have heard of simple economics….Price elasticity! Lower the price and get far more people buying/watching! This IMO should be more like $35-40 at best!!!!!
It should be zero at best
Well said. Boy, these promoters have no shame in their greedy habits making money.
3/4 fighters in the main event and co-main lost their last fight. One of them to an old Pacquiao and the other two were knocked out by the same guy, Tank Davis. The fourth guy is best known for being the nephew of a great fighter. This card would look beautiful on Fox. But with them charging $75 for this, it makes me think that if they ever do make Crawford – Spence, they’re probably going to charge like $199.99 for it.
The attractive fight to me was Lopez Ramos. Hopefully it gets put on another card down the line. Still does not justify $75 but it has been a match up I was hoping to see for awhile.
Yeah, I agree. Lopez – Ramos is an excellent fight. Let Lopez heal up and they can do that later in the year sometime. Sucks for Josesito too because he didn’t have a single fight last year and he’ll be 38 this summer.
The only fights I will pay for are Crawford v. Spence, Usyk v. Fury, Inoue v. Donaire, and Logan Paul v. Charlie Z.
@Holt Horror; Logan Paul VS Charlie Z??? LMAO! Good one
Charlie Z is still alive? How is he now a homeless drug addict by now?
Amazing how Leonard Ellerbe says ppv is the greatest thing and DAZN etc are a joke. Only way this stops is nobody buys.
I agree wholeheartedly. Why not let network tv build up the fighters into ppv stars, as it was in the 70s. Boxers need the fan support from regular cable and network tv.
Ugh, SSR pulling out is gonna end up costing me $75. Thurman vs Barrios is the best fight of the night now that Cuadras vs SSR isn’t happening.