Unlike other fights and sporting activities, boxing is paid sport that requires its viewers to pay before viewing each fight. Pay-per-view as its name implies started in 1948 and the first boxing pay-per-view fight was between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frasier.
Pay-per-view serves as a medium to generate more income in boxing for cable providers and promoters. The promoter stages a fight between the two most popular and talented boxers and sells the video to sells it to cable providers. The cable providers make the video available on payment.
For you to enjoy watching a pay-per-view boxing match, you must understand some terminologies used in pay-per-view in order not to be frustrated after payment:
- Pay Per View Single Ticket:
As just as it sounds “single ticket”, this kind of ticket is common, especially when viewing live sports such as boxing, wrestling, martial arts, or a combat sports match. When purchasing a single ticket to view a match you must know that you are allowed restricted to watching the match only once.
- Pay Per View Rent Video
Cable providers use this kind of pay-per-view for a recorded grand show such that the viewers who missed the match can only view the match for a specific time sometimes it can be a day or two days.
- Pay Per View Subscription
In this kind of plan, cable providers or streamlined websites just like Netflix offers a subscription plan to their subscribers. The subscription plans can differ depending on your financial capability, if you subscribe for a month, you are unrestricted to watch updated boxing matches or sports events for a month.
- Pay Per View Video Pass
Cable providers use this video pass whenever there is a boxing tournament or any sports series which enables you to watch the live boxing tournament for as long as the tournament last, it can be 14 days or 30 days.
Viewing video content has moved to online streamline as more people are online due to technological advancement. There are online streamline services such as Netflix, Hulu, and ESPN that enable you to watch boxing matches online wherever you are.
What you just have to do is to subscribe to the following streamlined service and enjoy watching boxing at home or online:
- ESPN
ESPN is one of the top-rated streamlined services that view MMA, boxing promotions, and top rank boxing events on different kinds of devices such as laptops, smart TV, and mobile phone without a satellite subscription.
ESPN is a free streamlined service but you can subscribe for a month or annual membership to enjoy top-rated boxing matches, live fighting matches, or any sports event depending on your capability at the rate of $5 or $50 respectively.
- HULU
Subscription for Hulu enables you to watch live matches and boxing promotions on ESPN+, HBO, show time, and Disney+ at the rate of $13 per month, and also works compatible with any of the listed devices; Xbox, LG smart TVs, Nintendo switch.
- SLING TV
On Sling TV, you can subscribe to different types of plans such as the orange plan at a rate of $20 or the orange and blue plan at $35. Sling TV works perfectly with Amazon fire and Xbox One devices and also when new viewers pay for two months extra they receive fire TV for free.
- AT& T TV
This channel works smoothly on mobile devices and smart TVs. It has a different subscription plan and a bonus package at $65 per month with over 50 channels with ESPN.
CONCLUSION
Boxing is an intriguing activity, which provides viewers with a thrilling effect. However, viewers are required to pay before they view any fight and this is to help raise some funds for cable providers, as well as promoters of the game. Thus, you can start enjoying some amazing boxing videos, by choosing a suitable payment plan.
