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Originally Posted by pythagoras
But all those viewing figures are for free to view fights, pay per view figures(which is what box nation will be in a few weeks) are far short of those. The amir Khan world championship fight on sky box office was 30,000 viewers, and one of the reasons sky have stopped doing pay per view boxing. Actually Frank Warren says its 100,000 so its definitely between 30,000 and 100,000 http://www.boxingnewsonline.net/BN08/detail.asp?id=1215
So I'm sorry Chad, as I love boxing, it is a minority sport. Much that I would like Virgin to carry it, as long as it was free 
Regards
John |
That's right John, I used free to air figures for all the other sports too. I was trying to make the case for boxing being very popular when head to head against other popular sports on terrestrial TV. If it's free, as it currently is on Box Nation, people will watch boxing and viewing figures can and will rival any sport. Take most sports to a pay model and it doesn't do too well.
Remember this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PremPlus
At one stage less than 30,000 SKY customers had Prem Plus. Does that make football a minority sport?
In fact unless it's a big fixture like Liverpool Vs. Manchester United, Premiership games on SKY struggle to break 1,000,000 viewers. This is a sport that SKY spend billions on.
http://www.barb.co.uk/report/weekly-...mmes-overview?
Ricky Hatton Vs. Floyd Mayweather still holds the record for PPV in the UK at 1.2 million sales. What other sport, being broadcast live between 2am to 5am in the morning, would ever attract 1.2 million sales on a PPV basis? As posted above, SKY struggle to get this amount of viewers on some of their Monday Night and Super Sunday fixtures.
I don't agree with you John, boxing is far from a minority sport. What sports do you have ahead of boxing and what sports do you have on a par with boxing? Also think would any of those sports ever attract any real PPV audience?