600,000 PPV Pac/Thurman (at least)

If Thurman could sell PPV, he would have sold PPV by now.

The fans who buy ppv are very different to the fans who "would watch that guy for free". The former requires some investment into that fighter. Pac has a lot of fans invested in him if you haven't noticed, can't say the same for Thurman.

Which is why Fury-Wilder only did 300k buys despite Fury's sob alcoholism suicide story and being on every mainstream TV show prior to the fight.

Fight did similar numbers to Pac-Bradley, and both are probably at a similar popularity and level.

 

It's the price of PPV that needs to change. 600k is a decent buy rate though. Tells you Mayweather/Pacquiao 2, if it happens, would do at least 1.5 million.

 

Thurman an unknown commodity?, you can't be serious...

Nevertheless, extremely impressive numbers there. Happy to see it. I would have predicted 300k prior to the fight tops.

 

Being able to sell PPVs has never been a requisite to actually being on PPV. Crawford can't sell a PPV but he has headlined one. That is the entire point I am making here.

 

This. Pac v Mayweather still does huge numbers.

 

While I like seeing the sport do well I hate to see ppv continue to be a thing

 

Yes, Thurman is virtually an unknown commodity.

First ever PPV....had one fight in the past two years.

Danny Garcia was 2.5yrs ago. All those ratings and goodwill is looooong since stale.

600k is a very impressive number. Let's see where it settles, but this is huge.

 

Wow, did not know that. That's def going to change how one looks at things.

 

My point is, if you can sell PPV then you would definitely be on PPV - otherwise you're practically throwing money away.

Thurman hasn't been on PPV because he can't sell PPV and his promoters knew it.

Thurman helped the promotion with his talking but Pac 100% carried that PPV.

Put Pac in with JMM, Floyd and the fights easily go over 1mil because the other 2 also have a fanbase and when the 2 fanbases collide that's when it makes a big noise.

 

It's not as black and white as that. Pacquiao has sold less PPVS. If Thurman didn't have any drawing power this PPV would have been between 350-400k.

 

Not as simple as that. Thurman was seen as more of a threat than Broner, its a matchup thing, people were more keen to see if Thurman can actually retire Pac. They're not tuning in for Thurman, they're tuning in to see if Pac still has it.

Broner probably has more fans than Thurman, but Pac-Broner seemed less compelling because everyone knew what was gonna happen.

 

Exactly. Thurman was an unbeaten young world champions which many picked to win the fight so the appeal was much stronger than the Broner fight.

 

Impressive numbers for the post Floyd vs Pac Dud era. Very impressive. I could see this fight doing over a mil had it happened prior to the Floyd vs Pac fiasco.

 

I agree.. to me it’s a more significant fight than say Pac Bradley

 

sure Thurman v Porter broke record viewing figures for TV.Its quite simple,folk love 50/50 fights.