What are you talking about? De La Hoya was 2.4, Mosley 1.2, Marquez 1m exactly. Hatton was 850k in HBO PPV's. We're not talking about Sky Box Office PPV's.
I googled what Mr. Wonderful said and here's what I found. Oscar De La Hoya's Pay-Per-View History 1. Rafael Ruelas (5/95) 330,000 buys = $9.9 million 2. Genaro Hernandez (9/95) 220,000 buys = $6.6 million 3. Miguel Angel Gonzalez (1/97) 345,000 buys = $12.1 million 4. Pernell Whitaker (4/97) 720,000 buys = $28.8 million 5. Hector Camacho (9/97) 560,000 buys = $22.4 million 6. Wilfredo Rivera (12/97) 240,000 buys = $9.6 million 7. Julio Cesar Chavez II ( 9/98) 525,000 buys = $23.6 million 8. Ike Quartey ( 2/99) 570,000 buys =$25.7 million 9. Felix Trinidad (9/99) 1.4 million buys = $71.4 million 10. Shane Mosley (6/00) 590,000 buys = $29.5 million 11. Javier Castillejo (6/01) 400,000 buys = $16.0 million 12. Fernando Vargas (9/02) 935,000 buys = $47.8 million 13. Yory Boy Campas (5/03) 350,000 buys = $17.5 million 14. Shane Mosley II (9/03) 950,000 buys = $48.4 million 15. Felix Sturm (6/04) 380,000 buys = $19.0 million 16. Bernard Hopkins (9/04) 1 million buys = $56.0 million 17. Ricardo Mayorga (5/06) 935,000 buys = $46.3 million 18. Floyd Mayweather Jr. (5/07) 2.15 million buys = $120.0 million Totals: 12.6 million buys = $610.6 million and that doesn't include the Pacquiao fight
Yeah, just seen that on http://boxing.about.com/od/history/a/payperview.htm . Doesn't seem to cover the Forbes and Pacquaio fights. Wikipedia says the Pacquaio fight did 1.4 million buys however it isn't referenced so that is not a reliable number.
Oscar-Forbes was not PPV Oscar-Pacquiao did 1.25M http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/news?slug=dm-ppvbuys121208
Cool :good Here is a source from the Examiner on both Pacquaio and Mayweather. Seems to be pretty credible as it is the Examiner. http://www.examiner.com/boxing-in-a...d-mayweather-s-pay-per-view-history-hard-data
According to the Examiner it did 850k and Cotto did 1.25m. His recent outing against Clottey did 700,000. That figure surprised me.
the correct #'s are here... floyd: Shane 1.4 mil - JMM 1.0 mil - hatton 910k - odlh 2.4 mil - baldo 325k - zab 375k - gatti 365k