Wilder vs Fury II: Fight night set to KO PPV records

This weekend’s world championship heavyweight world title re-match between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury is expected by many sports experts to bring a return to boxing’s pay-per-view TV glory days and perhaps act as a springboard to a series of record paydays and PPV audiences in the coming months or even years.

The doyen of American boxing promoters Bob Arum has stated that Wilder-Fury II may be “one of the richest fights in boxing history” and could possibly equal or surpass the number one contest on PPV of all-time - Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Manny Pacquiao in 2015 - which grossed well over $410 million in the US alone from 4.6 million purchases.

All this PPV hype comes despite recent claims from some boxing promoters that events on platforms like HBO, Sky, Showtime and BT Sport are “dead” and that new OTT streaming services with their lower monthly subscription price points are the future.

Nevertheless, the weekend’s two real-life heavyweight giants – American Wilder stands at 6’ 7’’ with Britain’s Fury at 6’ 9” – are set to do battle over 12 rounds on Saturday evening in Las Vegas, just 14 months after their controversial split decision contest. Despite suffering…