Boxing
JOSEPH PARKER v DILLIAN WHYTE
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Well Pianeta is a step up on Seferi ( yes, anyone would be). Then maybe David Price.
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Because Hearn won't give Fury like £1m just to fight a bum.
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Yer but he's got to fight at least someone fringe level surely before going in with AJ.
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Bellew can make more much money fighting another washed up 'known' fighter than go in with a genuine pound for pound elite opponent. He's admitted so himself.
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Yer but I'm far from convinced even that can be made because of the politics. It's more likely than Fury vs AJ politics wise, but even then the politics is a huge obstacle stopping it being made.
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Surprised there wasn't any "beef" between Bellew and Haye tonight on punditry duty. Could have nicely setup Bellew v Haye 3 for November!
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on PPV of course
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It's not like Bellew vs a mug will be PPV, he's got to face someone at least credible for it to be a PPV fight. He must still make several millions to fight Usyk assuming they'd work out like a 50:50 split (which I assume will be the angle they go for).
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Yes 50/50 split and it'll be on SBO PPV and they'll throw the full hype machine at it
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few heavy loosers in here tonight, parker got beat out the park, roughouse tactics from whyte or not
from the 3rd round onwards it was easy to tell parker didn't fancy it, whyte did what he had to do, very nearly had a heart attack in the last 300 secs or so lol tbf go count your losses whingers, im busy counting all my luvvly cash thanks to whyte, thanks shann |
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They managed to make a Parker v Whyte Saturday Fight Night main event a PPV tonight. they don't care, they just want to rip off the fans to milk them
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The timing is a bit awkward as he'd want it Goodison ideally, but that's not available for like another 10 months, which is probably too long to sit around doing nothing to wait for.
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Nah, he's done Goodison Park and that moment will live with him forever. I think he'd happily settle for the O2 for the Usyk fight. Could be wrong though. He's motivated by the £ now
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Yer it will have to be O2 or Manchester Arena, only 2 arenas big enough for a fight like that. I would think Manchester might be more likely as it's closer to home for Bellew.
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@wisewords, are u trying to say that wasn't worth top billing, ure a **** if u dont think it was imo
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Yes I'm saying that fights of that ilk could easily be on Sky Sports instead of PPV. Just because Sky/Matchroom love PPV, doesn't mean everything has to be PPV
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It's a pretty crappy PPV headliner even if the card worked out pretty enjoyable. Ultimately it's a PPV headlined by 2 fringe world level guys for no belt, with an undercard full of nothing fights.
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And it's certainly shows you much Eddie has changed now in terms of milking everything for PPV. 5 years ago a fight like this would never be ppv.
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It's not just Eddie though is it, it's Sky. They want a certain amount of PPV shows per year now
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Froch vs Bute was on regular Saturday night fight night ffs and when was that?
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Can't see it myself. Eddie has the casuals by the short and curlies they'll buy anything PPV now. Bellew said he prefer's fighting heavyweight's because their feet are so slow and stupid in the ring. I'm sure they can find someone
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This fight was made on 7 weeks notice or whatever because they needed to fill the PPV slot
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2012 for Froch vs Bute.
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Yer it does fill like Eddie just fills a quota now of a set number of ppv dates and just has to find fights to make those dates. AJ will always be 2 a year, but he still has to fill like 2-3 others a year.
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From now on, I imagine all Dillian Whyte fights will be PPV
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(until he loses)
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At the moment Eddie's UK PPV king if obv AJ, and then he's got Bellew and Whyte for backup
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Er depends, if it's Parker sort of level opp then yes and it probs will be so you're probs right. If it's a knockover job to wait for a world title shot then it won't be. He will probs lose soon anyway (when he challenges for a world title).
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is* obv AJ
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Interesting one, if we've got Whyte v Chisora 2 in November, will it be PPV?
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Yes.
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It's gonna depend if Whyte gets made mandatory. If he's made mandatory he's unlikely to fight anyone of substance if he's guaranteed a world title shot next year, if he isn't then he will fight someone of substance.
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Eddie's effectively got everything mapped out until April next year regardless of whether Wilder agrees to fight or not. Eddie Hearn's got the game by the balls right now
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Yes Froch v Bute was a bigger fight.
I agree the way it works now is instead of 'Big Fight = PPV' Eddie and Sky have got the public thinking 'PPV so it must be a big fight' |
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Yes that's the crux of it tobes. They know the public have an appetite for PPV now so they feed them
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