"The Pay Per View numbers for Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Ricky Hatton have been made public and the end result is a huge success. According to HBO PPV's Mark Taffet, the fight which took place on Dec. 8 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas garnered an outstanding 850,000 domestic pay-per-view buys, which raked in $47 million in television revenue. Mark Taffet stated: "Mayweather-Hatton was one of boxing's most memorable nights of the past decade and was the perfect ending to a resurgent year for the sport" Taffet added "Also, in becoming the highest-grossing PPV fight ever in which neither a heavyweight nor a Latino superstar was featured, Mayweather-Hatton blazed a new trail, which opens new doors and bodes very well for the future." Taffet said the fight helped HBO to a record-breaking year for PPV. With eight boxing events this year selling 4.8 million units and generated $255 million, shattering the old record that stands from 1999, which garnered 4 million buys for a sum of $200 million." http://www.doghouseboxing.com/Benz/BenzN121707.htm
Yeah Im glad and to all those MMA/UFC fans- Boxing kicked your ass this year in PPV numbers now shut up Dana White saying boxing is dying and UFC is killling it off you clown
I'd like to see a credible source, other than the Sun, for UK buys. I have a hard time believing that the UK buys out did America ones.
No kidding. He might as well have said "and the other 1,500,00 watched a crappy pixilated, laggy stream of the fight in wich they could barley see what was going on. These are the only 1,500,000 who gave Hatton more than 1 round before the stoppage.
Ya but haters will say that he only drew those numbers because people wanted him to get knocked out. Hmmm...Isn't that exactly what he has been selling for the last few years. He's a friggin entity for sure.
The numbers are good and bad. Good in that they show boxing is alive and well with average fans. Bad in that they only encourage HBO to try and **** us with even more marginal PPV cards.
