Experts are predicting 1.5mil PPV buys sold for Pac-Cotto at $54.95 each!

LOS ANGELES—Do the math, start counting.
Manny Pacquiao is expecting yet another cash windfall after successfully making history following his 12th round technical knockout of Miguel Cotto at the Grand’s Garden Arena that looked more like a demolition job.

Pacquiao earned close to $13 million from his lion’s share of the

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Experts are saying that the Pacquiao-Cotto bout could generate at least 1.5 million PPV buys, leading to a gross of $82,425,000, after taxes.

Pacquiao is again expected to get a huge share of that pie through his own promotional outfit, MP Promotions.

“The signs are good. We really won’t know until we get the preliminary results on pay-per-view sales on Wednesday,” said Top Rank chief Bob Arum, who promoted the fight dubbed “Firepower”.

Initial reports, however, indicated that the PPV hits for the Pacquiao-Cotto bout could exceed the 1 million buys reeled in by the fight that saw Floyd Mayweather Jr. outclass Juan Manuel Marquez in September.

“From every sign that we see, we know our goal of garnering more than one million pay-per-view buys is well within sight,” Mark Taffet, a vice president for HBO Sports, which beamed the fight on PPV, said earlier.
That could mean that Firepower will profit more since it was sold to homes on a higher price.
Mayweather-Marquez PPVs were sold at $49.95 each, while the Pacquiao-Cotto PPVs were sold for $54.95 each.

Huge demand

And despite the higher price, there was a big demand for an uninterrupted showing of the Pacquiao-Cotto bout.

“We’ve never had this experience with so many people ordering a fight,” a local New cable operator was quoted by Fighthype.com as saying hours before the clash. “This must be a big, big fight.”
Several cable operators were forced to turn away customers because they could not keep up with the demand, the report added. And these customers even filed complaints.

“We're sorry,” the New Jersey provider told customers. “We are just so overwhelmed with people trying to order this fight. So many people are trying to order it from their remote controls that it locked up the computer. It was processing so many orders, the computer was overwhelmed.”


Personally Im not too bothered, 50/50 either way, whether its below a mil or above the mil mark. Floyd will help bring in the money by playing the villain anyways. However, even if it reach under a mil, at $54.95 each vs $49.95, it would have still grossed more than JMM-PBF so PBF cant ask for too much of the purse split anymore.