[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]1.25M buys for Manny-Oscar![/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Wednesday, December 10 2008[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]HBO Sports reported today that 1.25 million pay-per-view buys were generated from last Saturdays welterweight fight between Oscar de la Hoya, the sports top all-time attraction, and Manny Pacquiao, the sports pound-for-pound king, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The fight was presented by Golden Boy Promotions and Top Rank, Inc. The 1.25 million buy total represents the highest performing pay-per-view event in 2008 and generated $70 million in pay-per-view revenue. It is only the fourth time in boxing pay-per-view history that a non-heavyweight event has attained the one million buy mark. Boxing fans across America showed tremendous support for this event and were pleased that they tuned in, said Mark Taffet of HBO Pay-Per-View.[/FONT] http://www.fightnews.com/fightnews_2/headlines//EkklAFukFyEgUwOUHT.html Wow they where expecting less because of the slow tickets sales. Discuss
Those are good numbers. People knew that Dlh was done the minute he had to come down in weight. The numbers could've been higher if Dlh didn't have to come down in weight.
His 2nd biggest event ever 1. Rafael Ruelas (5/95) 330,000 buys = $9.9 million 2. Genaro Hernandez (9/95) 220,000 buys = $6.6 million 3. Miguel Angel Gonzalez (1/97) 345,000 buys = $12.1 million 4. Pernell Whitaker (4/97) 720,000 buys = $28.8 million 5. Hector Camacho (9/97) 560,000 buys = $22.4 million 6. Wilfredo Rivera (12/97) 240,000 buys = $9.6 million 7. Julio Cesar Chavez II ( 9/98) 525,000 buys = $23.6 million 8. This content is protected ( 2/99) 570,000 buys =$25.7 million 9. Felix Trinidad (9/99) 1.4 million buys = $71.4 million 10. This content is protected (6/00) 590,000 buys = $29.5 million 11. Javier Castillejo (6/01) 400,000 buys = $16.0 million 12. This content is protected (9/02) 935,000 buys = $47.8 million 13. Yory Boy Campas (5/03) 350,000 buys = $17.5 million 14. Shane Mosley II (9/03) 950,000 buys = $48.4 million 15. Felix Sturm (6/04) 380,000 buys = $19.0 million 16. This content is protected (9/04) 1 million buys = $56.0 million 17. This content is protected (5/06) 935,000 buys = $46.3 million 18. Floyd Mayweather Jr. (5/07) 2.15 million buys = $120.0 million
boxing is not dead its just more international. Pacquiao vs Oscar probably genereted tens of millions of dollars internationnally, especially in Asia, abut that is not reflected in the ppv numbers. Hatton vs PBF is considered to have sold 800-900K, but it also sold over a million in the UK. Boxing is not dead. Its just globalized. Some people are so focused on USA all the time that they can't understand that.
This is only the preliminary accounting,..it could end up to 1.4M when its alls said and done according to Arum
i was just going by the above posters statement that made the observation since oscar de lahoya generated 1.25 million buys against pac its not dead. well if you want to go by PPV numbers proving life and death, lets get the ppv numbers on abraham vs marquez ppv, bhop-pavlik, chavez- vanda 2, marquez-casamayor then compare them when the golden boy is not in the picture
a). This is obviously an excellent number. b). There were rumours going around, possibly linked to Arum, that it was going to be around 2 million instead. There's overstatement, then there's Bob Arum.
We need a power puncher fast Heavyweight that can bring fear to other boxers so He can bring boxing back on the map.
