Pac - Cotto PPV numbers : about 1.3-1.4 million

Arum perhaps got carried away with his emotions to outdo the May-Hatton numbers at that particular moment, so as to gain negotiation leverage for the subsequent Pac-May proposition? We have to take into account that Arum and PBF hated each other with a passion and each one would love to outmaneuver each other in the money and psychological game...

A second angle is Pac and Cotto are both under his TR outfit while Pac-Hatton is a joint venture with GBP. Overstating the PPV now of a bestseller this magnitude would mean he had to bear the bloated numbers alone, doesn't it?

It's pure conjecture though on my part, howbeit logical. You have to ask Arum personally yourself. :good

 

It turned out that an anonomys source at GBP leaked it out that Pac-Hatton had done about 800K.....

GBP wanted the numbers made public......but it was Arum and Top Rank who had the lead in promoting that Pac-Hatton fight, and so ultimately it was Arum's call on whether to officially release the PPV buys, and he chose not too.


The thing here with Arum is that he's been preaching since the DLH fight that Pacquiao is the biggest draw in boxing.....so obviously there was pressure on him to have Manny vs Hatton do better than Mayweather-Hatton.

......Arum is still preaching that Pacquiao is the biggest draw, yet the numbers bear that its Mayweather who sells more PPV.

 

^^ this dude just flat out doesn't like Pac. One guy says that a reporter misquoted Arum, but he completely ignores him. Then another guy says that perhaps Arum got carried away with his emotions (wtf) to outdo Mayweather vs Hatton, and he immediately quotes him.

Then he says that Pac-Hatton did about 800K, when the figure that came out is closer to 850K. You might at well say 900K while you're at it, but no that wouldn't work would it.

 

THAT PROOVES THAT LATINOS ARE A FORCE TO BE RECKON WITH. 90 PERCENT OF PPV SALES WERE PROBABLY LATINO BOUGHT.mannys FANS BETTER NOT SAY IT WAS BECAUSE OF HIS FANS atschEVEN ARUM KNOWS BY PUTTING LATINO FIGHTERS ON THE UNDER CARD IT WILL PAY OFF.HE EVEN HAD THAT DUMPTRUCK CHAVEZ ON THE UNDER CARD. BECOUSE THAT LOP SELLS OUT STADIUMS IN MEXICO.SO PACARDS GIVE THANKS TO THE LATINO BOXING FANS. FOR MAKING COTTO AND PAC A SUCCESS:good

 

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Where u been at bro...u r a respected commentator

 

no he doesn't. I know maybe one person who has ever even heard of JMM. I know quite a few people who have heard of Cotto. Don't know **** about em but they've heard of him.

 

There we are again, debating about PPV numbers.

Who cares if the PPV numbers is 5 mmillion if it is a snorefest. Evene if there were only 10,000 people who paid PPV for the Pac-Cotto fight, but those are 10,000 satisfied customers.

 

The fact alone that Pac-Cotto, which are both non-Americans and speak broken English, making 1m in american ppv is a victory in itself. If that fight can outsell May-JMM, then non-American Pac has a serious claim to the PPV drawership--even a victory in Floyd's homecourt/market. Pac isn't the face of boxing right now for nothing.

 

why are you skeptic about the result? Ah wait, you have that Mayweather avatar. Now I understand...

 

...the point being that (except for rare and exceptional occasions) it is more logical and normative to downgrade than to bloat ppv numbers from a promoter's pov as i have already earlier pointed out. 1.5-2m it is... :happy:yep

...a death-blow to the "boxing is dead" mantra. :happy:happy:happy

 

that guy just talks and talks everything he wanted to believe and made it sound like he was 100% correct....but ask him a link, he gets choked...:deal

he's a typical guy who thinks he knows everything about boxing, but the reality is he only knows what he wants to know...read his posts and you'lll know what i mean..:deal

 

Dude the people pay to see DLH and Hatton fight FLOYD. Sure it may be their fan bases, but they came to see FLOYD get whooped by their idols. Which btw didnt happen.

 

If those numbers are represenative of the opponents then why aren't they reflected in thier vs Pac fights.

Most people will be paying to see Mayweather lose.