Off topic but any bar showing the big fight Sat night ?

[ManitouDan]

Around Portsmouth would be sweet ? Dont mind paying a cover but not dishing out 100 plus for the PPV ?

[LHS 72]

Around Portsmouth would be sweet ? Dont mind paying a cover but not dishing out 100 plus for the PPV ?

What Fight???????????????????????????????????

[ManitouDan]

Rhonda Rousey VS Floyd MerryMayWeather

[Raider6309]

I'm not from Portsmouth but the cover is usually $5 a person in Athens for paperview. I'm sure every place with a TV will play it in Portsmouth

[ManitouDan]

Actually I don't know anywhere in Portsmouth that is showing it .. our Bw's doesn't do PPV's period.

[Raider6309]

Really? Our BW's in Athens makes a killing on PPV, even when the students aren't in town

[cghs82]

Around Portsmouth would be sweet ? Dont mind paying a cover but not dishing out 100 plus for the PPV ?

My only guess would be Buffalo Wild Wings by Portsmouth Cinema, but I'm not for sure if they are. Regardless of whether or not the fight is shown at Bdubs, it's guaranteed to be packed there. You might be able to call them and ask if they are showing it.

[4thgoal]

You could call the Mill Tavern, Brew Pub, and Pizza Pub and see if any of them are showing it. No idea on any of them, but those are places I would check.

[blackshooky]

fyi...

Buffalo Wild Wings won’t be stepping into the ring with Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao.

As sports fans gear up for Saturday’s much-hyped championship bout in Las Vegas, Buffalo Wild Wings has decided not to show the fight at the vast majority of its U.S. locations because of the price, which is about $5,100 per restaurant.

“It was enormously expensive,” Chief Executive Officer Sally Smith said in an interview.

A handful of company-owned restaurants are showing the fight and will charge a $20 cover, the first time the chain has taken that step, Chief Operating Officer James Schmidt said on an earnings conference call Tuesday. About 70 franchises plan to air the bout and charge admission, he said. In January, a Buffalo Wild Wings opened in the Philippines, Pacquiao’s home country. That restaurant will show the fight.

The chain has about 1,080 restaurants, almost entirely in the U.S. It would have cost as much as $6 million to air the fight at every Buffalo Wild Wings location, Smith said.

Live sporting events are pivotal for Buffalo Wild Wings. The company’s restaurants are blanketed in high-definition televisions, drawing sports fans who’ll drink beer and munch on chicken wings for hours as they watch their teams compete.

The fight will generate at least $300 million from ticket sales and Pay-Per-View purchases, a record for boxing, according to the event’s organizers. HBO and Showtime, which are teaming up to produce the fight on television, filed a lawsuit Tuesday to stop two websites from streaming the event without authorization.

Seeking Bars

The fight costs almost $100 to watch at home on Pay-Per-View, which will prompt many fans to seek out bars as a place to view it. Missing out on Saturday’s fight could hurt Buffalo Wild Wings’ sales, according to Michael Halen, an analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence.

The restaurant chain could use the boost. The company’s shares fell 13 percent Wednesday in New York after reporting first-quarter profit that trailed analysts’ estimates because of higher wing costs.

While Buffalo Wild Wings has succeeded in the past few years by taking market share from local sports bars, it will lose out on business Saturday, Halen said.

“They’re sending customers into the arms of their competitors,” Halen said. “It’s the biggest event probably besides the Super Bowl, and they’re not going to have it.”

[C-Bolt]

I'll take Rousey in 8

[4thgoal]

As sports fans gear up for Saturday’s much-hyped championship bout in Las Vegas, Buffalo Wild Wings has decided not to show the fight at the vast majority of its U.S. locations because of the price, which is about $5,100 per restaurant.

That is pretty steep, but for the amount of money it would make their servers and barkeeps, if their profit for the night was nearly lost, it would still be a win for the locations that had it.

[Winchell]

Why would anybody watch a Floyd Mayweather fight? He's a documented woman beater and flat out punk in general.