@SweetD001
Ex-EBU champ
WITH great revenue comes great expectations and, ideally, great responsibility. Ideally… Not a word our country’s government or their corporate brethren tend to honour, but I digress.
On the back of Liam Smith’s stunning win over Chris Eubank Jnr, which headed yet another pay-per-view event, it’s not a bad time to shed a few thoughts on the ever-debatable platform, which, speculatively, has probably done more to drive people away from boxing over the years than generate income for it.
PPV feels a lot like government policy, particularly privatisation. It’s a purely profit-driven model, where the yearn for revenue outpaces the value that is delivered. Naturally, it is fervently backed by its purveyors (television networks and promoters) and messaged to end-users (the fans) as the
