Bob Arum: "Initial PPV numbers are in, final tally won't get lower than 650,000"

You seemed to believe it right? So, if you believe that then he must be your God and you have to believe everything else he says, including insinuating Pacquiao might be doing PEDs right? Unlike you, I don't worship boxers.

 

it bombed....Arum has been known to inflate top rank numbers....He did it in the Hatton-Pac fight...

 

You still didn't answer the question.

 

I expected last Saturday's fight to sell around a million with pac mania.

 

if it does 800 000 i think it can be considered a success all things taken into consideration. 600 000 is pretty mediocre, anything above a million is a huge success. i think it lands somewhere at 700- taken into account the fight- past fights such as hatton/pac and arums bull****.

pac is a bigger star now than he was against hatton- but clottey has no local following and no national following- simply because ghana isnt a first world country. so pac really is the a and b side to this.

 

Thats alot of people who got cheated on that night.

Anyways, congrats to Pac for showing his star power again.

Hope he fights the Floyd-Shane winner in the fall.

 

anyone who thinks 650k is a poor showing are idiots or just plain joyboys. considering that this fight only has pac as the draw, both are non-americans and non-latino and cannot speak really good english nor spanish without 24/7 nor aggessive media pubicity like GBP alway do, yes 650k is a great number and that is what i have predicted in the PPV prediction thread.

plus of course don't forget that it drew 51,000 live crowd, not bad for a fight with only pac has the real draw with not much known undercards.

 

I thought he answered it already. JMM wasnt as big a star, nor did those fights have the promotion behind it as PBF-JMM did.

Countries tend to support their biggest attraction.

 

Are you slow? Learn to analyze simple sentence.

 

arums making 20 mill off this fight

 

This post is a decisive statement. :good

 

No Way! Manny is very popular but he's not DLH popular....NO ONE IS. This fight will do about 650K in PPVs like I've been saying. Strong numbers considering the weak undercard and very unknown Josh Clottley......for PAC to do 650K all by himself that says he's got a very strong following to say the least.

 

Excellent post and exactly what I thought.

 

650,000 is pretty good considering the opponent was Clottey.

I trust it more than HBO releases the figures, however, than Bob Arum.