Is there anyway to order PPV's online?

[consortium11]

those are amateur events, covering not just boxing but all other olympic-level events. you do know that china trains hundreds of athletes to compete in such events worldwide to collect medals?? theres very little coverage of int'l professional-boxing in china, aside from these amateur/olympic-style competitions.

i speak decent to fluent Urdu (pakistan), Hindi (India), and Bangla (bangladesh). why dont u try me, if u think ive never lived in those places??

http://bugu.cntv.cn/nettv/ibugu/28/CCTV5/20110918.shtml

 

[ZroC]

Pakistan, bangladesh and india share the same sports channels amongst each other. and all GEO has ever aired is a few Amir Khan fights and nothing more. there is virtually no boxing coverage in southasia, except the first two seasons of THE CONTENDER that was aired on AXN.

You've changed your argument already. You've gone from they air no boxing matches to they air some boxing matches. Seeing as Pac is much bigger around Asia than he is in the west it seems fair to assume they show his fights too. Also the wiki article did list "major boxing matches" in the first line for the channel. Like I said, I know wiki isn't a true source but it shows that the editor/s of the page decided to mention it for a reason. So on that note it's his/their word against your word for now. Also the article did mention they also show amateur boxing matches as well.

biggest bullshit ive ever read, shows u know nothing of japanese mma/fight scene. the popularity of PRIDE/K-1 was enormous around that time, its only recently that popularity has waned. PRIDE was shutdown because a magazine published some articles claiming DSE (pride's owners) were involved with Yakuza. that led to FUJI TV kicking out PRIDE programming from their channel. the lack of advertising and TV revenue from FUJI, is what chokedout PRIDE.

That's not why Pride was shut down. In fact that was just the lazy half assed way MMA fans used to explain away the collapse. MMA fighters have been commenting for years on MMA's decline in popularity. The magazine that published those Yakuza connections was just a tabloid.

as for hentai, porn is available in PPV format in most countries in the world that allow it. its a budget industry and hentai production is terrible compared to mainstream animes. and it is not on the same level as mma/boxing or japanese sporting events. why dont u just ask any of the japanese members from the MMA/K-1 section if you rly think u have any clue what ur talking about.

Wasn't talking about the popularity of MMA or boxing. I was saying that all I know is that there is a strong PPV market for anime, and I clearly said I have no way of finding out what kind of numbers boxing gets over there.

yes, its an incomplete list. a few more channels here and there that aired the fight. but not the 100 countries you claim. boxing doesnt air in that many countries. these figures of "broadcast in 100 (or 150) (or 195) countries worldwide" are always bullshit.

Or to counter that well thought out argument - no. No they're not bullshit.

you're the one that claimed it was an incomplete list. youre the one that claimed it aired in 100 countries. youre the one that cant event provide that LIST of 100 supposed countries. regardless of wether its boxing or ufc or any other programming/event claiming such. the only sport thats aired in that many countries is FIFA and the Olympics.

I said nothing about the population or tv ratings. The size of a country has nothing to do with the how many countries it was broadcast in. I said big boxing matches are broadcast in over 100 countries, you reply by saying that's impossible because China is really big.

okay, so a random or obscure boxing match was aired on some station in china. that doesnt mean boxing per se is regularly aired there, or that maweather-ortiz ever aired there.

I know very little about how TV works in China. I was however able to find an English article about a boxing match aired in China this year in the space of a 5 second google search. And it seems Consortium posted more right above me.

So basically do they air boxing matches in China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh? Yes. It would seem they do. Do you want me to find a specific article stating that Mayweather and Pac fights are aired over there? That's unfair. For example, I know Manny and May fights are broadcast in Ireland but I wouldn't be able to find a specific article stating such a thing.

 

[Bonos]

UFC or any MMA event don't do any PPV numbers outside North America. Maybe a few thousand in Australia and some misc countries with PPV but it's insignificant.

Boxing does air in 100+ countries (non-PPV). I don't see why that is so hard to believe, it's the same with most sports.

 

[puffineater]

So if the UFC counters world-wide Pay-Per-View counts, what countries does that comprise of?

Hopkins-Dawson will be on Pay-Per-View this Saturday in the US and Canada, how many countries/continents will show it on PPV as well?

 

[ZroC]

So if the UFC counters world-wide Pay-Per-View counts, what countries does that comprise of?

Hopkins-Dawson will be on Pay-Per-View this Saturday in the US and Canada, how many countries/continents will show it on PPV as well?

Typically Australia, the US and Canada; According to Meltzer's reports and the pub reports on the UFC webstie Canada orders the most, then the US, Australia seems to order the third most, maybe 15% of the average PPV number as a rough guess; That's also based on Meltzer who listed around 15 of the top PPV cities mentioning 3 Australian cities on the list; The remaining international buys would be scattered and scarce so it all seems to correlate

Not much of a clue about Hopkins-Dawson but likely the usual ones mentioned already; I think Primtetime in the UK have snatched that one up for PPV as well; A lot of sport stations around the world are somewhat required to show boxing events simply as part of their sports package; It'll be billed as "big time boxing" or something like that

predicting international boxing PPVs would be a tough job; People would tend to think of the major PPV markets as the UK and the US when in reality the healthiest boxing markets would be eastern/central Europe, the Philippines, Germany, and numerous Latin American countries; If they have ever managed to get a country with a strong boxing following and switch it to PPV for certain fights I see no reason why they couldn't get decent numbers out of them; It would also strongly depend on the time of night the fight is on in each country; There's also the changing factor of promoters who would put the fight on PPV in the challenging underdog's home country e,g Adamek-Vitali, Hatton-Pac/mayweather, there are likely many more boxing matches where the underdog's home country are actually paying to see him "take that title home"

 

[The Batkilt]

Not much of a clue about Hopkins-Dawson but likely the usual ones mentioned already; I think Primtetime in the UK have snatched that one up for PPV as well; A lot of sport stations around the world are somewhat required to show boxing events simply as part of their sports package; It'll be billed as "big time boxing" or something like that

It's being shown by BoxNation, which is still in it's freeview period on Sky.

 

[ZroC]

So it's free for the moment at least?

When that channel goes to the paid service it's going to bomb badly

 

[puffineater]

Typically Australia, the US and Canada; According to Meltzer's reports and the pub reports on the UFC webstie Canada orders the most, then the US, Australia seems to order the third most, maybe 15% of the average PPV number as a rough guess; That's also based on Meltzer who listed around 15 of the top PPV cities mentioning 3 Australian cities on the list; The remaining international buys would be scattered and scarce so it all seems to correlate

Not much of a clue about Hopkins-Dawson but likely the usual ones mentioned already; I think Primtetime in the UK have snatched that one up for PPV as well; A lot of sport stations around the world are somewhat required to show boxing events simply as part of their sports package; It'll be billed as "big time boxing" or something like that

predicting international boxing PPVs would be a tough job; People would tend to think of the major PPV markets as the UK and the US when in reality the healthiest boxing markets would be eastern/central Europe, the Philippines, Germany, and numerous Latin American countries; If they have ever managed to get a country with a strong boxing following and switch it to PPV for certain fights I see no reason why they couldn't get decent numbers out of them; It would also strongly depend on the time of night the fight is on in each country; There's also the changing factor of promoters who would put the fight on PPV in the challenging underdog's home country e,g Adamek-Vitali, Hatton-Pac/mayweather, there are likely many more boxing matches where the underdog's home country are actually paying to see him "take that title home"

Do you have any links that state that Canada as a whole is the biggest PPV market for the UFC? I know the concentration of fans is there but it's tough to believe that a country of 30 mill out-buys a country of 300 million where much of the marketing dollars are being spent.

 

[Da Killa]

In China all the big boxing fights are shown for free on CCTV-5 the national sports channel. The fights are not shown live though as far as I remember (I haven't had a TV for a few years).