Dan Rafael: Mayweather vs. Pac could top $500M in revenue

According to Rafael, the fight could easily surpass $500M in revenue based on all the forms of revenue coming in. Arum is stating that the live gate is expected to be $74M. Each fighter also gets to pick who sings their national anthem.

We've all been bickering back and forth for years about who's fault it is that the fight took so long to make. If these numbers are accurate, than I have to take my hat off to both parties. They've played the game perfectly and will reap the benefits. I'd be surprised if either guy ever fights a different opponent.

 

First off, you don't have to be an economist to forecast fight revenue. Second, someone is telling Rafael these numbers and he's reporting them. It's not like he's coming up with this on his own. The live gate number is probably pretty accurate. We'll see after the fight how much money the fight ends up making.

 

So apparently, they jacked up the ticket prices because of the high demand. Very few will be available to the public. They're estimating over $120M from non ppv revenue. Here's what Arum had to say about it;

"Between the gate, the foreign television sales and the closed circuit, which we can't even calculate yet, you're looking at over $120 million. And that's before one pay-per-view has been sold in the U.S.,"

Here's what he said about the timing of the fight;

"We wouldn't have gotten a fraction of these numbers if we made the fight five years ago," Arum said, referring to the original negotiations in late 2009 and early 2010 that failed and led to years of on-and-off talks. "It turned out that we're doing the fight at the right time, I guess, not that we're geniuses for waiting this long."

 

I'm pretty sure most real and fake boxing fans will be watching this fight; plenty of non fans as well.

 

You would think so, but just the opposite is true. Because of how much interest is being generated from the main event, there is no real need to spend much money on the undercard. I would hope that they put on some good undercard fights, but there is no financial incentive to do so.