Lol 50 MILLION IN CHINA ALONE TUNED IN FOR FLOYD VS HATTON...

exactly

 

here's his source

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/boxing/article571995.ece

RICKY HATTON is in line for a whopping £20MILLION pay day following his epic fight with Floyd Mayweather.

The Hitman was KO’d in the 10th round of their WBC welterweight title bout.

But the first defeat of his 44-fight career will be cushioned as the cash generated by the Las Vegas showdown is reaching mind-boggling proportions after it shattered Sky’s pay-per-view record.

Hatton, 29, was already in line to pocket a career-high purse of £4m.

Sky are refusing to comment but the previous record of 750,000 sales, set when Lennox Lewis beat Mike Tyson in June 2002, has been beaten by about 150,000.
Best-paid boxers

Hatton’s team shrewdly negotiated a package with Sky that he would get a percentage of every PPV buy above 350,000.

Early estimates indicate the final figure will be at least 2½ times greater than that — around 900,000 — making Hatton one of the best-paid boxers of all time.

Hatton’s dad, Ray, is also his manager and insisted on keeping the UK TV rights.

And that has turned out to be one of the best bits of business the Manchester fighter has ever done — and now means he has hit the very-big time.

The figures for money generated by the clash are being revised ‘up’ every day and the final total is now heading towards the dizzying £70m mark.

American broadcasters HBO are so delighted with the ‘Hatton factor’ they have already told Hatton snr they want to sit down at the earliest possible date to discuss his son’s next fight.

Pay-per-view figures in the United States are expected to top 1.5m sales, which will bring in £41.25m.

Tickets to watch the fight live at Vegas’ 16,000-capacity MGM Garden Arena were snapped up within 30 minutes of going on sale and had cash tills ringing to the tune of another £5m.

On the black market, ringside seats were being offered for a staggering £8,000, while ‘ordinary’ seats were fetching £750.

Other casino-hotels along the Las Vegas strip screened the fight on CCTV and EVERY one of the 21,000 tickets were bought by punters.

Fanatical Manchester City fan Hatton is now a huge box office attraction all over the world.

In China alone an estimated 50 MILLION people tuned in to watch the fight.



not the best source but it is what it is

 

they should call him Money Hatton

 

yeah and its also just a very rough estimate.



There arent any magical sensors they have that can tell them how many people are tuning into any given channel. In the US, some group like Neilson does surveys of a few thousand people and from there they adjust that percentage to represent the whole population of TV watchers and come up with a rough estimate.

So theyve had less than a week over there in China to come up with these numbers from some guestimation method (surveys likely), it isnt something thats highly accurate.


Something like PPV buys they would have much more accurate numbers because they can track that.

 

It does seem weird but the commentators claimed the same thing, with the same number, before the fight.

 

Yeah, it's just a complete coincidence that so many Chinese fans tuned in for this particular fight and not the other Mayweather fights, isn't it. Couldn't possibly give Ricky credit for being a big draw?:roll:

 

I'm living in Qingdao, China right now and you can imagine my surprise when the fight I thought I was going to miss was showing on free TV.

As far as interest here goes not a single person mentioned the fight to me. Maybe that's because I don't speak Chinese...but I prefer to think that no one was interested.

I'm just happy I was able to watch Ricky Hatton get knocked out live. :happy

 

You guys realise 50 millions viewers doesn't even represent 4% of China's population right?

 

Hahahahahahahaha

 

Like I said before, wouldn't be surprised at all if 50 million did watch it and 49 million of those had no clue who or what they were watching. When there's only one sports channel, if you want sports, you watch what's on it.

Besides, China just isn't all that sports-crazy, compared to the US or UK. People watch sports, but it doesn't seem to be a big part of pop culture there, outside of hero worship for some of the bigger Chinese stars. When I was in Beijing, one thing that amazed me was that there were ads all over the place with second-tier NBA stars (such as Paul Pierce, Shawn Marion, etc.), but nobody really seemed to have a clue who any of these guys were. Yao and that hurdler guy and the table tennis team seemed to be a big deal, but that was about it...

 

I don't think its much of a surprise. When the Houston Rockets played the Milwaukee Bucks (Yao vs Yi) that drew 250 million.

 

Yup aint that the truth.