Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquaio Saturday 2nd May
Paul_Crawford
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Just been confirmed in the last few minutes.
Going to be a fantastic fight!
Be interesting how it will be covered in the UK, will it likely be on Sky pay per view? Will either 5live or talkSPORT have coverage?
Going to be a fantastic fight!
Be interesting how it will be covered in the UK, will it likely be on Sky pay per view? Will either 5live or talkSPORT have coverage?
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Most likely be Sky but you never know ITV have the extra cash now they no longer have the footy and Channel 5 have Viacom footing there bills
Sky will have the rights to show it.
In the past, the following have been on Sky Sports Box Office:
Frank Bruno vs Mike Tyson
Mike Tyson vs Lennox Lewis.
It won't be as massive as Mike Tyson vs Lennox Lewis.
No chance of this being free on terrestrial tv.
According to the BBC this morning it is ! Each fighter is expected to make $100 million
Might be the first PPV boxing I buy since Hatton v Mayweather.
Would anyone really pay Sky an extra £100 to watch it??
What has been the highest value Sky has changed for an event on Sky Box Office previously??
I cant remember paying more than £17.95 iirc
I don't think they'd try much more than £25, if the fight was at 11pm or something maybe but at 4-5am not so easy to get people shelling out mega bucks for it even if it is going to catch the casual fans imagination which it will.
Could do with some British interest as well, wouldn't surprise me if they get Khan involved either on the undercard or on a British show beforehand.
Even though $100 is expensive, it's not uncommon for PPV events in the US to be pretty expensive in general.
Sky will want it yes, but BN are no slouches!
They outbid Sky for the deal with Golden Boy and for Top Rank fights, both of which Sky wanted!
(Some exceptions apply because of UK rights being held with UK promoters etc)
Over my cold, hard dead body.
I'd rather it was on Boxnation, or FTA (which I doubt would happen). You'd get it £12 (or they put it up just for that month) and all the other boxing for a month - cancel anytime.
I do though remember that in Demark Kessler used to be able to get DKK500 which is around £50 for his fights when he was at the top of his game. There were a number of legal challenges as many bars in Copenhagen have UK & Irish satelitte TV and Setanta were showing it within their normal sports subscription.
Back to the flight. I can only see this being on Sky Box Office in the UK and given as said above WWE is now £20, I can see this being that price or even £25.
How many buys do Sky get 1 million ? but are those like Froch at reasonable times than 5am. Did Lewis or Bruno get to those levels but PPVs were cheaper then.
Yes they did out bid them but I wonder how much Sky really want this one?
If they are really keen to get it then they will go all out and flash their $$$$$ or is it ££££ but they will then pass it on to the viewer and charge min of £19.99
If Sky do get it then I would think a price of around £21.95. Recent Sky boxing PPV's have been around £17.95 but they know they can charge extra given the main event.
As for the likes of US PPV prices, they are ridiculous higher and although nobody likes to pay extra on top of existing subs we should probably count ourselves a bit lucky when you consider what people in other countries are paying for such events.