Chris Mannix ‏@ChrisMannixSI : "From what I hear from people tracking ppv numbers for #ChavezMartinez, it could fall between 400,000 and 500,000. That's a huge success." Kevin Iole ‏@KevinI : "This is a stunner to me and I'll believe it when I see it, but hearing the PPV numbers for Chavez-Martinez could go past, gulp, 500K" Excellent news if true.
Considering it was on the same night as Canelo, which had a much better undercard, that's a good number.
Great numbers! I was expecting 350-400k so anywhere around the 500k mark would represent a great success!
It's a superb number if true. Go back to about 2004/05 and non De La Hoya ppv's were still getting good 300-500k buyrates, depending on the fights. Then something happened and within a couple of years boxing changed to a couple of huge fights a year with Pac or Floyd doing massive, million plus business routinely, and every other pay per view barely making noise. I heard Bernard Hopkins vs Chad Dawson got about 70,000 buyers, go back to 2005 and his equally boring fights with Jermain Taylor were in the 400,000 range. I'd consider half a million for a proven non-draw and a guy who'd only headlined Top Rank Mexican orientated ppv's before to be miraculous.
Sign me up good Nobody can deny the mountains of Vietnamese dong they're rolling in after that payday!
Surly there's no rematch... Martinez only has 1 working leg .... The cotto fight was bad enough .. Martinez deserved to go out better then that .... Plus what weight would it even be at?? Not buyin this rumour ... Surly not lol
Read that Alvarez/Khan fight did less than 600,000 PPV buys............they are expecting Golovkin/Alvarez to do well over 2,000,000 buys. Also read that the PPV cost will be $100. It would not surprise me at all. I predicted that PPV would cost $100 per fight years ago right here at this forum................
