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Lampley Critical of Pay-Per-View Model on New ‘The Fight Game’
By Keith Idec
Jim Lampley didn’t bite his tongue regarding boxing’s broken pay-per-view model, the same television vehicle the company that employs him helps support.
The veteran HBO blow-by-blow announcer was critical of pay-per-view boxing during the newest episode of “The Fight Game with Jim Lampley.” It debuted Wednesday night on HBO.
In the episode’s opening monologue, Lampley lamented the pay-per-view business done by several shows in the aftermath of the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Manny Pacquiao fight in May 2015.
That long-awaited, incomparably hyped showdown drew a record 4.6 million buys and generated an astounding $600 million-plus in overall revenue. Ultimately, though, it turned off hardcore and casual boxing fans alike because it didn’t deliver enough action and because Pacquiao complained of a pre-existing shoulder injury after losing a 12-round unanimous decision at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
“This has been a year of waiting for boxing,” Lampley said, “as the sport struggles to regain a more positive bond with fans in the aftermath of the bombshell attraction that failed to lift off. It is one of boxing’s multiple curses, that pay-per-view numbers have become a recognized indicator of where the sport stands in the marketplace. And it’s inescapable that in the wake of Mayweather-Pacquiao, several attempts at resuscitation brought drownings instead. We’re talking about Golovkin-Lemieux, Crawford-Postol, Canelo-Liam Smith, Pacquiao-Vargas, even Kovalev-Ward. Reporting is hazy, but it appears none of those cards drew 300,000 buys. And the fact of the matter is, if it isn’t going to top that number, it probably shouldn’t be pay-per-view.”
While Lampley couldn’t be more right about that, HBO Sports currently has more pay-per-view shows on its 2017 schedule (two) than “World Championship Boxing” and “Boxing After Dark” telecasts combined (one).
The two pay-per-view shows HBO Sports is scheduled to distribute will be headlined by a Miguel Cotto-James Kirkland junior middleweight match on February 25 in Frisco, Texas, and the Gennady Golovkin-Daniel Jacobs middleweight title fight on March 18 at Madison Square Garden.
The lone live broadcast on HBO’s schedule is set for January 28.
Francisco Vargas (23-0-2, 17 KOs), the WBC world super featherweight champion, will face WBO super featherweight title-holder and fellow Mexican Miguel Berchelt (30-1, 27 KOs) in the “Boxing After Dark” main event that night from Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California. Japan’s Takashi Miura (30-3-2, 23 KOs), a former WBC super featherweight champion, will meet Mexico’s Miguel Roman (56-11, 43 KOs) in the co-featured fight that night.
Meanwhile, Lampley continued his monologue Wednesday night by emphasizing that broadcasting boxing on premium-cable channels, HBO and Showtime, is the most viable way in this day and age to serve the sport’s fan base.
“As the year concludes, boxing still follows the strongest business model,” Lampley said. “Premium pay networks like this one and Showtime, depending on subscribers like you to keep coming back to the most fickle mistress in sports. So it was here that you saw Terence Crawford go into New York for the first time, and switching into his trademark southpaw stance to knock out Hank Lundy. And 10 months later, he was doing more of the same at home in Omaha, against the game but outmatched John Molina. It was here that you saw Gennady Golovkin knocking out Dominic Wade in Los Angeles, then travel to London to fill the O2 Arena with British opponent Kell Brook, before breaking Brook’s orbital bone with his first serious left-hand punch. It was here that you saw Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez picking up two more wins to run his amazing record to 46-0, with 38 knockouts, adding a title in a fourth weight class and joining Roberto Duran as the only two Central American fighters ever to accomplish that.
“And it was here you watched Sergey Kovalev and Andre Ward both polish off lesser opponents, two apiece, on the way to the year’s most significant, big-talent showdown. But nowadays, it isn’t unusual for star fighters to circle each other for months, even for years, before actually accepting the risk of entering the ring to face each other. Amid the ongoing public argument over the unanimous decision for Ward, it’s probably too easy to lose track of the thing for which both fighters deserve credit – they made us wait, but not forever. They actually did fight. And now, in the wake of what happened, it's downright inconceivable that they won’t fight a rematch. That’s actually one of the best takeaways from the year in the ring, 2016.”
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I agree with him. There was only 1 fight this year that deserved to be a PPV fight....and that was Andre Ward vs Sergey Kovalev. Every other fight should've just been on cable imo
Amir Khan vs Lamont Peterson 2 & Shawn Porter vs Andre Berto coming up
This is what we need more of Al Haymon.....making these guys face each other
at Guerrero in the cut like
....hoping one of them drop out so he can get another good payday
This is what we need more of Al Haymon.....making these guys face each other
at Guerrero in the cut like
Amir Khan vs Lamont Peterson 2 & Shawn Porter vs Andre Berto coming up
This is what we need more of Al Haymon.....making these guys face each other
Guerrero on standby?
Him not beating able to beat a jobber wasn't enough to let Haymon know that he belongs in dark matches off my TV
What happened to berto vs algieri?
Guerrero on standby?
The money was probably much lower to face Algieri as it is to face Porter and it seems Berto is chasing the $$$ at this point of his career....he knows he's not making it back to the top anymore
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I mean I don't disagree with him, but talk about throwing stones in a glass house. He said its here you've seen Triple G do this and Choclatito do that n T Craw do this......but they've also been part of non-ppv worthy fights, that we're on PPV on HBO. Strange....
Edit double. Lampreys a douche bag hypocrite so not surprising.
Yo he slumped ole boy at the end!!! Lmao
Amir Khan vs Lamont Peterson 2 & Shawn Porter vs Andre Berto coming up
This is what we need more of Al Haymon.....making these guys face each other
....hoping one of them drop out so he can get another good payday
Lmao. Guerreros got the fukkin Jobberphone. Shine a hologram of a dude being KD by a cab driver, and he's at PBC offices within the hour. Hahahahahaha.
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just trollin for attention at this point. I don't think we should post people like that too much. its so obvious.
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yeah I think that what haymon is betting on.
that ppv is obsolete since its so easy to watch fights free or for less these days. so he gonna jump on that free tv model before anyone because that's where the future is headed.
yeah non of these fights feel like ppv but overall all boxing ppv have went down.
Idk why Bob stopped pumping fights out on TruTv, dumbass move IMO. That's where Valdez and Zurdo headlined their first cards. Now I gotta pay to see any decent TR/HBO/RNS fight? fukk that.yeah I think that what haymon is betting on.
that ppv is obsolete since its so easy to watch fights free or for less these days. so he gonna jump on that free tv model before anyone because that's where the future is headed.
yeah non of these fights feel like ppv but overall all boxing ppv have went down.