Deontay Wilder/Tyson Fury Official
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He went 40 + and 0, at the time why would he have changed anything up?
Wilder needs a new training staff. He was unprepared, he was too heavy, his legs were fucked, he is too unskilled as a boxer for his age. Of course that whole crew needs to go. Boxers get new teams all the time. Fuck it take the 3rd rematch, get your 40% of the purse, go home and retire at 36 years old.
Wilder lost ONE DAMN fight, and the whole internet is dumping on him. I swear man fans are fickle as fuck. I ride with Wilder.
All Wilder had to say was
“During the 3rd round I got hit, which was crazy because I didn’t even feel the punch. I thought it was more of a behind the head punch and that is why when you look at the video I am complaining about the punch.”
“I felt I more tripped then anything. When I got up, I just didn’t feel right. My balance and legs were gone. I have taken many punches a lot harder than that punch and recovered. That night nothing I tried or did helped and could not recover. I believe in my punch so I tried tough it out but it was just not my night”
“During the 3rd round I got hit, which was crazy because I didn’t even feel the punch. I thought it was more of a behind the head punch and that is why when you look at the video I am complaining about the punch.”
“I felt I more tripped then anything. When I got up, I just didn’t feel right. My balance and legs were gone. I have taken many punches a lot harder than that punch and recovered. That night nothing I tried or did helped and could not recover. I believe in my punch so I tried tough it out but it was just not my night”
They need to do cut the amount of undercard fights and have the main event start earlier.
The 11-midnight start times is what's hurting the viewership moreso IMO. Other than boxing fans, people ain't paying to watch the undercards
Cutting the price down to 50-59 dollars would get more buys too.
The 11-midnight start times is what's hurting the viewership moreso IMO. Other than boxing fans, people ain't paying to watch the undercards
Cutting the price down to 50-59 dollars would get more buys too.
Thats a terrible retort..
He even mentions somebody mayweather was going to fight..
With the same glove and refused to fight him because of that glove..
That glove was doing a lot of suspect shit.
If deontay had a more experienced team that shit would've
Been spotted pronto
more people are attending bars or going to fight parties now than ever b4... People rather pay in groups or pay that $20 at the door at some bar, lounge etc... It's cheaper that way.. Also piracy
Bruh them numbers are good, most pay per veiws do way less numbers. The problem is alot of fights shouldn't be pay per view but this one was a worthy event. The only fighter to constantly put up 1 mill plus events was Mayweather
??? Those numbers are horrible bro, they didn't break even when you consider all the advertising and guaranteed fighter salaries which were around 30 million each. it's too easy to get a free streaming link for any pay-per-view. I really don't see why they just don't try advertising on a free TV model
Extraordinarily high theft of PPV signal leads to disappointing sales figure for Wilder-Fury rematch
The heavyweight championship fight between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder on Feb. 22 had unprecedented promotion, as ESPN and Fox teamed to give it visibility that few fights in modern boxing history have gotten.
It built interest in the fight, but it did not cause fans to reach into their pockets and buy it.
Multiple sources confirmed to Yahoo Sports that while digital sales were well above expectations, cable and satellite sales figures were well lower than anticipated which resulted in a sales figure of between 800,000 and 850,000 pay-per-views. That is 25 percent lower than the reported break-even mark of 1.2 million.
The main culprit is theft of the signal. According to Wayne Lonstein of VFT Solutions, which tracks signal piracy, there were between 10 and 20 million live views of the fight on the major social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook and there were nearly 10 million more that were viewed as video on demand. Many of those latter views were only slightly delayed.
Many bars and restaurants also illegally accessed the figures. Those thefts not only cost the promoters and networks distributing the event, but it also takes money directly out of the fighters’ pockets. Wilder and Fury were each guaranteed $5 million for the rematch, which Fury won by seventh-round TKO. They also shared in the pay-per-view revenues, which were dramatically lower because of the proliferation of piracy.
Lonstein said a sporting event such as boxing matches are ripe for theft because they can end quickly and even if rights holders manage to get the illegal streams taken down within 10 or 15 minutes, that’s several rounds of a fight. In the case of the Fury-Wilder rematch, there was only 19:39 second of fight action. If you add the minute between rounds, that figure increased to 25:39 of total airtime.
The UFC has robust efforts to combat signal theft, but boxing promoters aren’t as aggressive protecting it and the theft rate is higher. One of the things that Lonstein is trying to do is to offer illegal streamers the ability to purchase the bout.
“Millions of people are self-identifying as ‘Hey, we want to see this fight,’ ” he told Yahoo Sports. “When you get into the millions, there is opportunity here [to sell them the signal legally]. The social demand and social consumption is so great that we are and have been working with a lot of content owners to actually move people. We can insert live messages into the chat stream and we get thousands of clicks to where we want to send them. It’s a nascent technology ... but there is a lot of opportunity there.”
The first Wilder-Fury bout, which finished in a split draw on Dec. 1, 2018, at Staples Center in Los Angeles, sold just over 300,000 pay-per-view. It is a testament to the work that ESPN and Fox did in building interest in the bout that the PPV figures rose by more than 250 percent.
It helped to increase awareness of the bout and interest in it, but it did not result in the kind of figures that were speculated before the bout because of the signal theft.
It’s a problem promoters are going to have to find a way to combat or it could be the effective end of pay-per-view.
“You’ve heard people for years saying boxing is dead, but if you really look at this and do an analysis, people are hungry for the content,” Lonstein said. “The product is becoming compelling and there is interest in it, no question. There is an astounding opportunity [to convert some of those signal thieves into buyers], but it’s a major issue and it’s just getting bigger.”
Lonstein also said there has been a trend for the theft of the audio signal only, and people are willing to listen to the feed to follow along on their phones without seeing it.
I knew it, I just knew it. I talked about this yesterday here in this post that I had a dream Fury would duck the rematch clause b/c he had a history of doing this to Klitschko. It's NOT confirmed YET, but it's almost looking like this would happen IF Wilder accepts
I wonder how much Floyd would get today. But a ton of people pay just to see him lose.
"I FEEL SORRY FOR WILDER" - ROY JONES JR. AS REAL AS IT GETS ON FURY STOPPING WILDER & EXCUSES MADE
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"It wasn't the suit he wore before the fight, it was the 273 pound suit he wore during the fight".
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Unbeaten WBC heavyweight champion, Deontay Wilder is tired of hearing Bermane Stiverne’s excuses for losing the aforementioned title to Wilder in January 2015. Stiverne has claimed since the fight that he was “sick” and Stiverne looks to prove he is the better fighter in their rematch Saturday night at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
“I consider him a sore loser,” Wilder told BoxingScene.com.
Wilder: Stiverne Is A Sore Loser | FIGHT SPORTS
Unbeaten WBC heavyweight champion, Deontay Wilder is tired of hearing Bermane Stiverne’s excuses for losing the aforementioned title to Wilder in January 2015…
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People keep DMing me this lol.
This is getting ridiculous. It's pathetic. I cannot believe the denial in some people. He got beat. He wasn't Superman, what he had been doing was impressive while it lasted it but reality has now sunk in. People have been saying for years that he had limited boxing ability. The other man was 40 pounds heavier than him. That's a bantamweight against a middleweight. Imagine Guillermo Rigondeaux against GGG. It was just a bigger man saying "fuck it, I'm bigger and stronger than you and I'm going after you". The bigger man had better skills too, nothing more than that. Just that simple. No conspiracy, no costume, no cheating.
I agree. Deontay should take it upon himself to use more boxing, not just punching. It’s like I saw in a boxing movie. I think it was Gladiator. Boxing is hitting and not getting hit.