Oscar De La Hoya-Floyd Mayweather Jr. PPV history & purse split

PPV history at time of De La Hoya-Mayweather fight


Oscar De La Hoya

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 ( 9/90) 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

Total PPV buys: 10,430,000
Average PPV buys: 614,706
Total Revenue: $490.6 million
Average Revenue: $28.9 million


Floyd Mayweather Jr.

1. Arturo Gatti (6/05) 369,000 buys = $16.6 million
2. Zab Judah (4/06) 378,000 buys = $17.0 million
3. Carlos Baldomir (11/06) 325,000 buys = $16.2 million

Total PPV buys: 1,072,000
Average PPV buys: 357,333
Total Revenue: $49.8 million
Average Revenue: $16.6 million


Purse split:

Oscar De La Hoya: $52 million

Floyd Mayweather Jr.: $25 million

Equivalent of 67-33 split in favor of Oscar De La Hoya.

 

33% and $25 million (5 times his previous highest earnings) to an unproven PPV attraction?

Now Floyd wants to offer that equivalent split to Manny Pacquiao, a proven PPV attraction, something Floyd was nowhere near at the time of his fight with De La Hoya.

Something to think about when determining the purse split.

:hey

 

What numbers?

 

Same question can be said with Floyd. Why hasn't he come close to the same record breaking numbers?

:hey

 

Perhaps nobody wanted to watch 2 fighters that were 5 weight divisions apart just a year before put on a circus show.

Then again, 1.4 million did. Not bad for a circus show.

:hey

 

Floyd can break those record numbers easily.

But Floyd wants to ony offer his partner the equivalent of what Oscar offered him when he was a PPV startup.

Everyone knows Pac is not a PPV startup.

:think