This week, according to relevant media reports, the WBC super lightweight championship match that ended last week - Devin Haney vs Regis Progas only created a pitiful 50,000 PPV ratings, which can be described as unbearable to look at.
The first to disclose the news was boxing columnist Rick Glaser, who wrote on his social media: The PPV sales figure for Haney vs Proangis is only 50,000, and my pre-match prediction will reach 65,000. Remember, the PPV sales for the David Benavidez vs Demethius Andrade battle are 60 thousand, let's see what happens on the PPV sales on December 23rd?
The Haney vs Progas fight was broadcast live through DAZN, and the 50,000 PPV ratings set a record for the lowest paid since DAZN's live boxing match.
The battle of Hani and Progas achieved an embarrassing 50,000 PPV ratings, and the outside world is analyzing the reasons. According to Glaser, aside from the existence of pirated live broadcasts, the Cushion Match and the Vice-Main Match were too bad to attract viewers, resulting in poor PPV ratings. For this reason, some people have compared the mat match of the battle of Haney vs Progas to the mat match of the 2015 Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao battle, because the mat match of the Mayweather and Pacquiao battle was equally bad, but the battle of Mayweather and Pacquiao set a record of 4.6 million PPV ratings, how to explain the battle of Haney vs Progas? If Haney really equates himself with a superstar like Mayweather, it means that his entire team and promoter Hearn are all N nerves short-circuited.
There are also people who believe that another reason for the poor sales of PPV in the game is that the United States is now approaching Christmas, and people are busy buying "New Year's goods" and are unwilling to spend the rest of their money to buy games, but I personally believe that the reason why the ratings of Haney VS Progas are dismal is that there is no other reason, the fundamental reason is that the game itself cannot attract audiences.
At first, the author was surprised when he learned that the battle between Hani and Progas implemented PPV paid live broadcasts, because this contest did not seem to meet the standard of PPV payment, first, Hani's style was passionless and drowsy. The second is the lack of suspense in the competition, I believe that few friends who really understand boxing, few people think that Progas will win, so based on this, the confrontation is in a dispensable position in the minds of fans, but the organizer wants to give it a try, and the result is too big.
Given the dismal ratings and the fighters' boring performances, Haney's team is going to have a sense of crisis, as he's likely to continue to lose followers. Haney shouted the name of "Tank" Gwotta Davis this week, but now Davis will re-examine the fight with Hani, is it worth it? If Haney can't be tied to the big name fighters, no one wants to watch the fight, and he naturally won't become a superstar, this is the reality, it depends on whether Haney can make changes and adjustments?
It's a pity that Hani's style has been stereotyped, and his thinking is also deep-rooted, you must know that in the second half of the battle with Progas, Hani can give it a go and try to stop his opponent, but he still stiffly executed the coaching strategy, that is, refused to take risks, and finally won the victory by points, which did not make people look good at all.
It has been suggested that if Harney wants to become a superstar, or promoter Hearn wants to make Harney a cash cow, in addition to changing his style of play, he will try to arrange interesting fights for Haney, such as against Ryan Garcia, Subel Matthias, or move up to 147-pound welterweight to face Terence Crawford, and some fans even said that considering that Haney and Progas weighed a whopping 165 pounds, then try to simply move up to 168-pound super middleweight to challenge Carneiro Alvarez, which will attract huge attention, but unfortunately this is just a hypothesis, in the author's opinion, there is no need to expect Haney to become a superstar, and it is thankful that he will not become a "box office poison" in the future.