Is 97K PPV Sells the worst flop in HBO PPV history???

150k for a PPV debut is certainly decent. Plus it was a pretty good show so one can expect the numbers will only grow big. I mean Cotto did 300k with a huge name like Martinez, what would he do vs Lemieux?

 

A little inflation is common, so I wouldn't begrudge you if you took them with a grain of salt....the lowest number I've seen that seemed plausible was 125k.

The 97k rumor came out way too early in the process to be an accurate final estimate.

 

it was 97K....the 150 was nothing more than a preliminary estimate. ggg is not a ppv draw. that's not a hit against him. not everybody can be a ppv star, like andre ward said. nobody in the mainstream gives a schit about ggg...he's not particularly charismatic or accomplished and he's already 34 he's got nowhere to go but down.

 

Source?

 

i like to see ward get 10 milion americans to watch him like ggg did in his last fight in his home country

 

It was a few days afterwards, as were the 125k rumblings.

That's all it takes- it's not dissimilar than movie box office reporting in that regard. :good

 

it was the 150K number that came out first...about 5 days after the fight. a couple of days later 97K as announced. In order to avoid the embarrassing revelation of the low ppv #s, ggg's people latched on to the higher 150K. but as you noted, nobody has come right out and said he got 150K....that's because everybody knows he couldn't even crack 100K.

 

What fights were these? We'd like to know.

 

150K for 2 non American fighters isn't all that bad during a year that had the worst PPV mega fight letdown in PPV history. People are just angry that GGG can easily outbox a boxer and are looking to trash him any way they can.

 

The 97K number came from Fight Hype if not mistaken. How the heck would they know exactly? They are one of the biggest anti-light skin colored boxing website.