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4/23 ESPN+ PPV & BT Sports: Dillian Whyte Vs Tyson Fury (WBC Heavyweight Title)
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TheFireCar
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Fury is a class above Whyte, puncher's chance and all but Fury wins this comfortably
Seems Whyte won’t be at the press conference.
Arum: Whyte Won't Attend Press Conference With Fury Because We Wouldn't Give Upside
Arum Confirms Fury-Whyte Will Be Available Through All PPV Platforms In U.S., Not Just ESPN+
BY KEITH IDEC
Published Tue Mar 01, 2022, 12:10 PM EST
Pay-per-view customers in the United States won’t be restricted to the ESPN+ platform if they want to purchase the Tyson Fury-Dillian Whyte heavyweight title fight.
Bob Arum, Fury’s co-promoter, told BoxingScene.com that Fury-Whyte will be made available through traditional cable and satellite operators in the United States, not just via ESPN+, the network’s $7-per-month streaming service. Fury (31-0-1, 22 KOs) will make a mandated defense of his WBC title against Whyte (28-2, 19 KOs) on April 23 at Wembley Stadium in London.
Fury-Whyte will be offered by BT Sport Box Office in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The price points for Fury-Whyte in the U.S. and the U.K. haven’t been determined.
Many boxing enthusiasts in the U.S. were dissatisfied with the most recent ESPN/Top Rank pay-per-view event, Terence Crawford-Shawn Porter, because they could only buy it through ESPN+. Crawford-Porter was priced at $69.99, but it effectually was priced at $76.98 because at least a one-month commitment to ESPN+ was required ($6.99) to purchase the four-fight show headlined by Crawford-Porter on November 20 at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino’s Michelob ULTRA Arena in Las Vegas.
Crawford complained that the buy rate for his impressive 10th-round stoppage of Porter was negatively impacted by restricting the event to ESPN+, rather than making it available to all cable and satellite customers in the U.S. Though Porter was Crawford’s most accomplished opponent in 3½ years as a welterweight champion, their fight reportedly drew approximately 135,000 buys.
Arum expects Fury-Whyte to do robust business on pay-per-view, in part because both of Fury’s past two fights – a pair of stoppages against former champ Deontay Wilder – were offered on traditional pay-per-view platforms in the U.S. It is imperative to make Fury-Whyte available to as many consumers as possible because Arum’s Top Rank Inc. and ESPN helped fund the winning Fury-Whyte purse bid of $41,025,000, which was submitted by Fury’s other co-promoter, Frank Warren, on January 28.
“That’s part of it,” Arum told BoxingScene.com. “Secondly, Fury’s fights with Wilder were carried by all of these platforms – In Demand, DirecTV, ESPN+ and other digital platforms. Whether it was because we were aligned with [Premier Boxing Champions] or whatever, they were carried by all the platforms. Now, if you’re establishing some sort of relationship [with those platforms], you don’t take a Tyson Fury pay-per-view fight and limit it to one company. I mean, that’s just not the way you do business. So, we decided and we made contact with In Demand and DirecTV, so that everybody will cover it and everybody will have a chance to make some money.
“Now, it is on earlier than usual [in the U.S.] because we don’t wanna move the start time in the UK back too much, which would affect that revenue, the major source of revenue. But I think people might like, particularly on the East Coast, an earlier start time, so they don’t have to wait up until 1 in the morning to see a fight.”
Whyte is pathetic not turning up..
What's the story behind that
chosenaledge13
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Frank Warren requested the purse split to be 80/20, instead of the 55/45 as listed in the WBC rulebook for the Interim Champion (Dillian). He's getting a flat 20% with no PPV cut, even though the fight will be this big because Tyson is fighting him specifically.
They bout to sell out Wembley Stadium (100k!) partially because of his name, and Tyson is getting a huge cut of that. He gets none. fukk that. I'm getting paid the same regardless? I'll be training while you parading in front of them cameras like you love to do. Because if Whyte wins none of this shyt will matter.
TheFireCar
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Whyte got sparked by an ancient 40 year old Povetkin and looked bad against Wach
besides a lucky punch, don't see how Fury doesn't completely decimate him.
chosenaledge13
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Because all it takes is for Fury to have a bad night. Even though he beat Wilder in his last fight, and showed he was tough as hell, he looked BAD imo. He took a straight right directly on his forehead because he was coming in headfirst with his hands down. And his body was there for the taking, but Wilder was way too basic to take advantage.
Not saying Whyte will win, but he KNOWS you cant beat Fury by headhunting. It will be interesting to see how Fury deals with body shots because he never really has had to before.
Big fight for the uK fans but not me...I see Fury running away with it.