HBO Announces One Million PPV Buys For Mayweather Fight
Posted by Ashish on 09.25.2009
Money Mayweather still has it...
HBO officially announced today that the Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Juan Manuel Marquez fight on Saturday night drew at least one million PPV buys. Due to the lack of drawing power of Marquez, combined with competition from a UFC PPV, most expected the Mayweather fight to only draw around 600,000-700,000 buys.
Total revenue generated from the PPV was $52 million, only the fifth non-heavyweight fight in boxing history to reach seven figures in PPV buys.
At least we now have proof that Pacquio is actually afraid of Mayweather Jr. Because it's not about the money because it's a good chance that Mayweather Jr vs Pacquio could do the biggest boxing ppv buys of all time based on these results.
Posted By: Jesse (Guest) on September 25, 2009 at 02:13 PM
Ha, take that all the nay sayers saying this ppv wouldn't draw shit. boxing can still be a huge draw as this proves. now granted since boxing only does ppv fights ever so often as opposed to mma usually having one a month, but still makes me happy to see that hbo boxing can still draw with the right fighters! fuck you dana white haha
Posted By: Cody (Guest) on September 25, 2009 at 02:22 PM
I guess loads of people must have heard Triple H was gonna be walking in with Mayweather and be in his corner...yeah that must be it..wait for the wwe press release soon...
Posted By: Guest#3685 (Guest) on September 25, 2009 at 03:18 PM
"At least we now have proof that Pacquio is actually afraid of Mayweather Jr. Because it's not about the money because it's a good chance that Mayweather Jr vs Pacquio could do the biggest boxing ppv buys of all time based on these results.
Posted By: Jesse (Guest) on September 25, 2009 at 02:13 PM
This was obviously said in jest, right? Because how does 1 million buys = Pacman fears Mayweather. Not seeing the correlation.
It is about money first and foremost. Manny's camp doesn't care how much the show draws if he doesn't get a significant cut of it.
I don't know what you do for a living but if you and a co-worker had to work on a project together and you knew that he was going to make half what he was making, does it make you greedy or intimidated if you didn't want to work with him?
Posted By: pd (Guest) on September 25, 2009 at 04:46 PM
I wonder how many PPV buys there will be if Floyd Mayweather were to fight Mosely or Pacquio. Floyd, step up to the plate and fight these two guys.
Posted By: oh great (Guest) on September 25, 2009 at 05:11 PM
At least we now have proof that Pacquio is actually afraid of Mayweather Jr. Because it's not about the money because it's a good chance that Mayweather Jr vs Pacquio could do the biggest boxing ppv buys of all time based on these results.
Posted By: Jesse (Guest) on September 25, 2009 at 02:13 PM
Manny doesn't fear mayweather, the money dispute is not that mayweather can't draw cause he obviously can, its the split between the profits. manny's camp wants something like a 60/40 split in there favour as opposed to 50/50 cause they feel that mayweather needs the fight more then manny. whether they are right is up for debate, but i do know aside from shane mosely vs mayweather, the boxing world wants manny to fight floyd.
Posted By: Cody (Guest) on September 25, 2009 at 07:30 PM
Boxing is still boring compared to MMA.
Posted By: Guest#7885 (Guest) on September 25, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Boxing is still boring compared to MMA.
Posted By: Guest#7885 (Guest) on September 25, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Thats the best you MMA fans can come up with after Dana spent months telling everyone boxing can't compete with UFC and yet couldn't put on a big enough of a main event to counter PBFs return. Charles Barkley is right they have too many ppvs and not enough big names to spread across all of them.
Posted By: Guest#4144 (Guest) on September 26, 2009 at 12:53 PM
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