Great PPV Numbers for Unacceptable Fights

Tyson is the only fighter that could take on somebody the caliber of Peter McNeeley and still do 1,550,000 units off it. :rofl

The revenue is always going to be inflated, Mike will always be king in this often scoffed at department. Hoya and Money dont have a single fight outside of the one they both participated in that did more than 1.4

 

What type of numbers did Sugar Ray/Hagler/Hearns do?

What about Ali in the 60's/70's? Was it even PPV then?

I wonder if taken in account the population difference, who had the best "viewers per capita".

I bet Louis in the 30's had a shyt ton of radio listeners.

I bet Pacquiao has hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide.

 

^ This !!

 

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You are, simply put, EXACTLY the type of consumer who will continue to blindly pad mayweather's pockets, never laying any criticism on his end of the equation whatsoever. Both these guys rake in Millions in pay per view, and in close enough volume that there was absolutely no excuse to have it anything other than a 50/50 split. The fact you, as a purported fan, are OK with Floyd walking away from that leads me to ask :

"What the **** is wrong with you?"

You surely aren't a fan of boxing with a mindset like that. The more you try and rationalize that logic, the less of a fan you appear to be. Continue to throw away your money at these shitty fights, and watching Floyd make fake phone calls with a stack of cash. That must really give you a rager.

 

I can't remember the last time I paid for one of his PPV's. I think it was maybe DLH-Mayweather. I got free tickets to see his last fight, and every other one I either watched at a friend's house or on a free replay, so I'm clearly not the exact type of consumer who continues to blindly pad his pockets. I don't even see this fight being competitive, TBH, so even if these two did end up fighting, I'd probably wait for the HBO replay to see "Pac" get his **** pushed in. Something like Mayweather-Martinez, though, I'd probably pay to see.

 

:happy Fair enough! I take it back. My main gripe is with the people who will just pay for any old **** they get fed.

 

i get you but some people just like watching as much boxing as they can.....i cannot stand to miss a televised fight featuring anyone decent........not watching boxing seems like an odd way to support it. if there's a fight on I'm watching it.....I prefer watching boxing to just about everything else I could be doing while the fights on and would hate to miss a classic cause people said it was gonna be a mismatch (how many times have so called mismatches turned into upsets...)

 

Mayweather is making 54-65 million with Cotto...Pac made 7.5 plus ppv profits put him at about 20 at best.

If Floyd accepts the 50/50...he only makes 60 million at most...he is already making that while fighting other fighters....

Pac needs to take a career high payday and fight...***** is pissing boxing fans off for his foul moves.

 

That was part of my point. Pac picked most of those guys(DLH, Hatton, Cotto, CLottey, Margarito and SSM.) coming off recent devastating losses and yet his PPV numbers weren't that far off from FLoyd's.

 

Lol, you have no idea how much Floyd, nor Manny is making. . . It's really not that much of a difference. . . FLoyd does not keep "100%' of his profits. Golden Boy puts up some of the capital/risk up front, otherwise, Mayweather wouldn't have a "guarantee". . GOlden Boy is getting their cut; better believe Haymon is taking a pretty penny for his cut too.

That "guarantee' figure you see also doens't mean shyt. . That just means how much the fighter is guaranteed to make if by chance the PPV is a bust - the promotor then has to eat the loss, and the fighter gets that money regardless.

WHen Mayweather has a "25 million dollar" guarantee, he's not getting as much from the revenue. . . Whereas Pac is getting more of the upside. Against Mosley, a fight that did similar numbers, Mayweather probably took home around 40 million, and Pacquiao probably took home around 28ish. Of course I don't know for sure, but just basing it off Arum's 27% cut, and Pac's %, it's an estimate. . .

ANyway, how much each fighter is making (in regards to their promotional payoffs/percentages) DOES NOT MATTER. . . What matters is "how much each boxer brings to the table" for their fight. Pac vs. Floyd is a fight that equally depends on each boxer. . . Unlike Mosley, or Ortiz, where Floyd is responsible for people tuning in - against Pacquiao, they would both be EQUALLY responsible for however many buys it did. To say otherwise, would reveal your "nuthugger" status.

 

Fans do not think these fights are sub-par. Whether boxing nerds like me and you think otherwise is a different matter. Why? Because boxers, and all athletes, care about the money they rake it. Every and any boxer would fight President Obama for the right price. We will see how unacceptable Floyd/Cotto is after they fight and we'll see how much money each of those two gentleman receives for this unacceptable fight. I'm banking on....LOTS of money.

 

Have a look at their PPV numbers against common opponents and then come back and try to tell us that these guys have equal drawing power. Go on, show us how much of a ****ing moron you really are. :hey

 

Uhhh, aside from DLH/Mayweather, the numbers are pertty much dead even. .

Pac/DLH was thoguht of as a HUGE mismatch in favor of DLH, and it was during the heart of the worst economy since the 30's. . . People were panicking - ain't nobody gonna be buying a perceived mismatch fight. . . Also, there was a lot of other factors. That fight had so much promotional muscle pumped into it, and with the debut of the 24/7 series, it really hyped a lot of people into buying the fight. . .

Hatton - mayweather did like what? 75k more buys?

Mosley - same

Marquez - Pac outsold him by like 300k.

Cotto - we'll soon see.

 

Everybody wants to see Pacquiao/Mayweather. . You acn't mention one guys name, without the other nowadays. . . Even people who don't watch boxing only know "pac/mayweather."