Indeed mate, these kinds of fights are risky to bet because we cannot take away the chance that both camps might have some agreements even before the fight was announced. We all know in the first place why Silva and Jake Paul have agreed to fight and that's because of the money, alone! What else? There's no bad blood between them or known rivalry, they've just surfaced suddenly because they know that their equation will give them millions. Their fight may be interesting to watch but this is not a pure professional fight even if it's considered as a pro-fight.
Again, then you should apply this same logic to any fight as this fight has as much chance of being fixed as any other. And all fights are for the money. When a fighter says he doesn't care about the money they're lying. How many fighters fight for free or donate all their money to charity? Zero. It's a business and a good one at that if you make it to the top and become one of the most popular fighters. And how do they do that? By grabbing headlines and people like Jake Paul are masters of it. It would be obvious if the fights were fixed or staged in anyway. There would be no question about it. This isn't the WWE. Most 'bad blood' in fights is just done to sell the fights anyway. It's just theatre to generate hype and add a little spice to the match:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z-oJTZ1b5QSilva is really not going to want to get knocked out because it will be embarrassing and taint his legacy, but why would he take that risk? Because the millions of dollars he's going to get paid will be worth it. He will be getting paid more for this fight alone than what he would have probably got in half of his UFC career.
Hasn't he started a union or was suggesting to start a union for the UFC fighters? I'm not sure if he was serious or if he was just making fun of Dana at that point, since I know they had a ongoing beef. However, they really should start thinking about uniting together, and actually doing something about the pay situation. UFC is taking off like no other sport right now, we're seeing record growth, yet fighters pay has remained the same.
They're never going to work together. Dana hates Jake and has even banned questions about him at the UFC pressers. Dana probably needs to keep fighter pay down as much as possible so it doesn't effect his bottom-line. If all fighters suddenly started wanting the big bucks UFC wouldn't be anywhere near as profitable as it now. They obviously need to find some middle ground though because a lot of the smaller fighters get hardly anything and even big fighters like Ngannou aren't getting paid what they deserve.
Honestly, I'm not even sure how boxing generates the money it does, since I do believe there's been an ongoing trend where boxing is losing supporters. Maybe, these Youtubers coming into the scene did help out a bit. I doubt any boxing elitist is going to admit that though
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Well it all comes down to the PPV numbers, ticket sales and ad revenue from sponsors etc. As long as that money is there then fight will happen and generate at lot of money for the big ones, but there will be a lot of flops happening. Eddie Hearn alluded to the recent Canelo fight not doing as great as they wanted it to, but they PPV numbers are out there as are the purses for each fighter and doing the math they probably struggled to break even, though it's hard to calculate truly because Dazn had the worldwide rights for the fight but they charged different amounts for it in different countries.
Canelo vs. Golovkin 3 will be broadcast on DAZN PPV in the U.S., Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
Prices for each region can be found below.
U.S.: $64.99 for current subscribers and $84.98 for new subscribers, which includes one month’s subscription to DAZN
Canada: CAD $64.99 for current and CAD $89.98 for new subscribers
UK & Ireland: £9.99/€9.99 for current and £17.98/€17.98 for new subscribers
Australia: $44.99 AUD for current and $58.98 for new subcribers
New Zealand: $24.99 NZD for current and $39.98 for new subscribers
https://www.dazn.com/en-GB/news/boxing/how-much-is-canelo-vs-golovkin-3-pay-per-view-cost-which-countries-get-it-included-in-their-subscription/18eezv82nr2o81qt0g9ktjdcbvBut the fight was shown for free in other markets like Spain and Germany which is how I watched it. Nearly $100 for a fight is ridiculous though, especially for not really a huge one like this.