16-05-2024, 10:18 PM
(16-05-2024, 08:46 PM)Brekkie Wrote: Anyone recall what the first PPV fight in the UK was - always found it odd that an event where it could be over in seconds was the sport to make a success of the PPV model where other sports subsequently failed (though I guess NOW TV day passes are effectively PPV events).Tyson v Bruno, March 1996*
Which is fitting because Tyson v Bruno in February 1989 was Sky’s first big live exclusive sports event after their full launch.
(*There may have been one or two in some of the very small scale cable trials in the 1960s, but this was the first real one.)