Weren't people talking about 350-500 k buys a week ago?

How much did Cotto/Margarito 2 do? 600,000 buys? Isn't that the same rivalry?

Canelo is a bigger star than Margarito, but that rematch was a hot, hot ticket. Plus, keep in mind this fight is also post-May/Pac disappointment.

But hey, I hope you're right. I don't think you are though.

 

Personally, I'd say anything above 100k is a success.

Combined purses for both bouts total $3.85m - this fight didn't have to shoot for Mayweather numbers. Building Golovkin and Gonzalez will be a slow process.

 

Weren't you talking about this fight doing at least 400k , hahahaha, 150k?! what a fail!!!! You said it had to do like 200-300k minimum for it not to be a failure, so stop acting like you expected. Mayweather still did 400k before he fought Oscar, that's a huge difference from 150k.

 

Some were predicting big numbers lIke that. I wasn't one of them.

The parameters for success on this board and in real life were and are two completely different things.

 

Even if you aren't one of them the majority of GGG fans posting were predicting those numbers. And all of them said at least 200k would be a success.

 

umm floyd vs zab did 350k.... is that really more impressive than two foreigners in their first ppv doing 150?? Not at all.

 

Was Floyd 33 , and yes more than double the PPV buys is quite impressive especially for the lower weight classes. If Floyd was a MW it would have done far more buys.

 

ggg fans are being bent over the barrel and shown the 50 states...repeatedly...but they just keep coming back and running their mouths...gotta hand it to em...theres no quit in them...even when they are taking a beating

 

Beating??? Man they are being taken out back and shot lol...

 

There is no profit when a fighters ppv is that low. Sure the fighters are paid, but the profit and future investment isn't there. He needs a big name fight in order to maintain or even raise his ppv audience.

 

100k x $50 = $5m

Avg ticket price about $80 (conservative estimate) x 21k = $1.68m

Purses $3.85m

Assume other revenue and other costs are neutral and you have a profit. Not that profit is important short-term when your goal is to build a long-term return anyway.

 

Still no source. Troll or click bait alert?

 

I put it at about 8 mil with 130,000 ppvs sold. This is GBP's right? My point is that there is very little profit if you know what goes in to a fight. Maybe this was a tester, but they won't do this again unless they can get Cotto or Canelo.

 

People are trying to make GGG something that he's not. He's not a PPV star and probably never will be.

 

Yes I was one of them. I said 200k would be success. 300k massive success. 500k a pipedream.

So 150k is a letdown, there is no sugarcoating it. But on the flipside, it's no death sentence either. It puts GGG back on the floor. He can generate some interest, but he needs a strong dance partner. He can't carry a PPV card by himself.