Oh, let me tell ya ’bout this Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou fight, dearie. Folks were all pumped, ya know? I mean, who wouldn’t be with two big fellas like them squaring up, huh? And they ain’t just regular lads fightin’ down at the pub; this was a whole pay-per-view thing, like the big deals they have on telly.
Well, what did they go and do? They put the cost sky-high at $79.99 just for folks in the U.S. to watch on ESPN+. Imagine that! And they even had it on the regular PPV channels, so they thought people would be snatching it up like hotcakes. But, ooh, didn’t quite turn out that way, now, did it?
Now, from what the numbers say—and this ain’t no gossip, it’s real info from MMA news folk— this fight only managed to pull about 11,500 buys on the TV PPV side in the U.S. Goodness, 11,500, can ya imagine? That’s less than a small village, and for all that hype! They say even Jake Paul and Canelo Alvarez pull in way more, so this was a bit of a flop, like an old pancake that didn’t quite sizzle right. People were expectin’ way more, what with Fury bein’ so famous in the boxing world, and Ngannou too from the MMA scene.
Now ya might be wonderin’, what went wrong? ‘Cause this Ngannou lad, he didn’t just come for peanuts—oh no! I heard he got himself around $10 million just for showing up to that ring, while Fury? He raked in a fat $50 million, according to some folks who know the business. Imagine that kinda cash! And mind ya, that don’t even include what they might’ve made from the pay-per-view numbers, if they were better, or any sponsors they had on the side.
But, even with all that excitement and the big numbers they paid the fighters, it seems people weren’t rushing to buy it like they’d hoped. In fact, some people are sayin’ it was downright “terrible” in terms of sales. It’s like when ya make a fancy dinner and nobody shows up to eat—very disheartening!
Ya know, some say the reason could be the price—79.99 dollars, goodness me, that’s a week’s worth of groceries for some folks! And with so many other fights out there, like those between Jake Paul and Canelo that folks seem to like, maybe it was just too pricey for most people to care ’bout.
And if ya think about it, Tyson Fury is a big draw back home in the UK too, where folks love watchin’ him. They say the Fury vs. Usyk fight pulled in over 1.5 million buys over there, mostly from the UK, ’cause Fury’s got a strong following back home. But this fight with Ngannou didn’t have the same luck in the U.S., it seems, not even close to what folks like Floyd Mayweather or Manny Pacquiao bring in with their fights. Why, Mayweather’s known to pull in millions just like that! People flock to watch him fight, and he’s pulled in about 24 million buys in his career, can ya imagine? Now that’s what they call a crowd-pleaser!
In the end, though, this Fury vs. Ngannou fight might not go down in the books as one of the biggies in pay-per-view history, but it sure made some headlines. People talked about it, and Ngannou got a nice chunk of change for stepping in the ring. Maybe next time, they’ll think twice about the price and maybe even who they match up in the ring to get more folks watchin’.
So there ya have it! Not every fight’s gonna be a record-breaker, no matter how famous the fighters are. This one was more of a “meh” in the books, at least in the U.S., though it brought in some decent money for the fighters themselves. Guess we’ll just have to see what comes next in the big ol’ world of fightin’.
Tags：[Tyson Fury, Francis Ngannou, PPV Buys, Pay-per-view, Fight Revenue]
