I also heard about that. I don't know the source but I heard they are expecting it to easily surpass 1M buys.
A yahoo article I read speculated that the ppv may have been as high as 1.5 mil. Nothing official tho.
Thanks, bro! :good I've heard different numbers speculated, just wondering if anything concrete had come out yet. I think some info should be in sometime in the next few days. Hope so, anyways.
Early estimates are around 1.3 to 1.5 but usually they don't release the official totals until the end of the week.
I WOULD THINK SO WITH AL THE FANS MANNY HAS it should go into the MILLIONS.but they depend on manny OPPONENTS TOO FOOT THE BILLatsch
I hope pay per view was flop. Super Bowl, world series, and other sports are on free televison. It hurts boxing by going pay per view. They are getting more money in short term, but in long term it ruins sport.
The thing is though, you can't really sell advertisement in boxing like you can in the other sports. Football and baseball last about 3 hours a game with countless numbers of commercials in between. Football can jack up ticket prices to unbelievable numbers plus their stadium capacity is about 60,000+ and they can sell a 30 second commercial for millions of dollars. Baseball is 4-7 games, lots of advertising opportunities, not to mention packed stadiums every game. Boxing is not good for advertising, for one, it only lasts about an hour at most. And you only have 60 seconds between rounds. And boxing venues seat what, like 20,000 people at the most(depending on venue). Even if you could get lots of advertising dollars committed, there's no guarantee the fight will last long to begin with.
This. TV timeouts for advertising is an impossibility for live television boxing primarily because of timing issues. I guess you could "tape" it and then broadcast it accordingly two days after, but there's always the problem of spoilers, length of broadcast, etc.