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AMERICA AT LARGE:Economic situation not reflected in the current exorbitant pay-per-view prices for big fights, writes George Kimball

"If the handwriting wasn't on the wall by then, it surely should have become obvious over the next six weeks. While Hopkins' upset of Pavlik ranked as an aesthetic success, in promoter Bob Arum's own admission "the pay-per-view numbers sucked".