By Tim Fletcher: Boxing fans are going to be asked to open their wallets this Saturday night and dig deep to come up with the $49.99 to watch the middleweight contest between IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) and IBF belt holder David Lemieux (34-2, 31 KOs) on HBO pay-per-view. I’m just saying.
Yes, there are a lot of fans willing to pay to see the Golovkin-Lemieux fight, but I think there are going to be a lot of them rebelling at the idea of paying to see fighters that they’ve previously seen for free on HBO. When you get free samples of a product, you’re not exactly excited when you suddenly have to pay to get more of that same product.