only $32.5 million for 1 million buys of paperview from mayweather vs marquez???

I thought it would reach at least $50 million for a 1 million buy,
is there something I miss?

link:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/boxing/2662733/Smart-moneys-always-on-Floyd.html

More than one million US homes bought the HBO pay-per-view telecast of his comeback fight against Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez, bringing in

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. A staggering financial return, considering it was a non-title fight and a Mayweather victory was considered a foregone conclusion.

your thoughts guys...

 

Someone needs to study math..

 

yah 'cause I really thought it would reach 50 million something... at least that's what I expected...

 

Is that the official figure for PBF fight?

 

50 million dollars = somewhere in the region of 32 million pounds, is possible they confused the currencies in the article.

 

maybe, but I read this from another forum

Yes its 1M buys but the revenue was only $32.5M cause Tecate had subsidized 50% of the price, discounting the rate and reducing the revenue to what is now a fact....So, the Revenue went down to $32.5M lower than the PAC vs Hatton fight of about $43M revenue...

 

32.5 - ppv
+ 7 - gate
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39.5
- 20 - promotion expenses
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19.5


link --> Floyd-JMM mismatch "megafight" spent $20 million on fight promotions alone

 

The ppv brought in over $50 mill in revenue.

 

I see what you did there.

 

It's $52.5 million,the Sun got i wrong.Why would someone read the sun anywhere,it's a paper for builders and construction workers

 

The Pac vs. Hatton fight also had the Tecate promotion. However, that does not get deducted from the revenue figures.

 

The prive per view isn't the full $50 that's charged on cable. IIRC, it was 525,000 people over cable (at $50 a pop) plus 475,000 people by satellite (mostly at $20 a pop, but the ones who were in the movie theaters only paid $15). So it comes out to a lot less than $50 million. But that's always the case.

 

The gross figure will have been around 50 mill then take away promotional expenses etc and that sounds about right...

 

I don't know about Dish Network, but I know Direct TV boxing PPVs are at least $50, not $20.

 

No, the gross figure would be much lower than $50 million. Assume:

100,000 HD PPV buys - $60 each - $6,000,000
400,000 PPV buys - $50 each - $20,000,000
300,000 closed circuit buys - $20 each - $6,000,000
200,000 movie theater buys - $15 each - $3,000,000
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1,000,000 Total PPV buys, $35,000,000 GROSS

And that's not even pulling out the huge chunk that goes to the cable companies.

I thought I remembered seeing numbers that the split was 525k on cable and 475k on satellite, so my caluclation above probably isn't that far off. Anyway, common sense dictates that the amount made on PPV would be much lower than $50M.