Pacquiao-Cotto does 1.25 million pay-per-view

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  1. Critic

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    LAS VEGAS (AP)—Manny Pacquiao is a box office hit, selling 1.25 million pay-per-views for his fight with Miguel Cotto in a performance that could set up the richest fight ever against Floyd Mayweather Jr.

    The fight not only made the top 10 of best-selling pay-per-view boxing events, but beat the 1.05 million figure notched by Mayweather for his September comeback fight against Juan Manuel Marquez.

    HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg said Friday the fight grossed $70 million, with 650,000 buys coming from cable television homes and 600,000 from satellite television viewers. It was helped by a record 110,000 buys from Puerto Rico, Cotto’s home.

    The biggest PPV fight was in 2007—Mayweather and Oscar De La Hoya, which was sold to 2.4 million homes.
     
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    zangetsu Getsuga Tenshou Full Member

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    Nice!
     
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    LAS VEGAS (AP)—Manny Pacquiao is a box office hit, selling 1.25 million pay-per-views for his fight with Miguel Cotto in a performance that could set up the richest fight ever against Floyd Mayweather Jr.

    The fight not only made the top 10 of best-selling pay-per-view boxing events, but beat the 1.05 million figure notched by Mayweather for his September comeback fight against Juan Manuel Marquez.

    HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg said Friday the fight grossed $70 million, with 650,000 buys coming from cable television homes and 600,000 from satellite television viewers. It was helped by a record 110,000 buys from Puerto Rico, Cotto’s home.

    The biggest PPV fight was in 2007—Mayweather and Oscar De La Hoya, which was sold to 2.4 million homes.
     
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  4. megadeth12

    megadeth12 Future ATG Full Member

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    I thought this would do more, hovering around 1.5-1.6 mil
     
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  5. DeanoFlash

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    Nice, I wish they hadn't joshed us with the 2mil figure but great nonetheless good momentum for the sport
     
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  6. Pimp C

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    Good news for boxing. PBF-Pac should do over 2 mil easy
     
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    delete
     
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  8. bladerunner

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    This is probably the highest selling fight where none of the fighters were americans.
     
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    indeed:smoke
     
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  10. charlievint

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    FAAAAR Cry from $2 Million! I was hoping the PPV numbers were lower than Floyd's so we could actually have a better chance at seeing this fight with PAC happen sooner rather than later.
     
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    i seriously thought it would do more but still impressive i doubt mayweather pac will break delahoya pac though
     
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    ARUM CAN LIE. FROM 2 million, to 1.5 mil. to 1.3 mil. NOW we get 1.25 ppv buys.

    Jesus Arum can lie. Anyway 1.25 is very good for that mega fight. That said it 50/50 :deal
     
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  13. bladerunner

    bladerunner El Intocable Full Member

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    Can you imagine the numbers Pac would do if was american.
     
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    and its even priced higher


    but dont really care about these anymore...just get the fight done and tell us


    "WHEN?"
     
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    That can't be right. Boxing is dead. Remember? :lol:
     
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