Pacquiao-Bradley III lost money

"Certainly the pushback from Manny's gay remarks killed us," Arum said. "It hurt us a lot. But I think it was also less a reaction to the match than a reaction to the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight. It was a reaction like Mayweather got. Mayweather also got punished [by consumers]."

Karma kills.

 

I thought it would have done at least 700k... I guess I was wrong.

 

Not a chance. The gay remarks would have negligible negative impact on the fight PPV wise - in fact, there is probably a stronger argument that it would have had a positive impact instead. i.e. Boxing ppv buyers arent really the demographic to be bothered by such comments. The story was just more publicity.

It was considered a dull match up for the mainstream boxing fans - end of.

Poorly promoted - whos job is that again?? :rofl Arum finger pointing - classless really.

 

Yeah Bob's the same guy who calls people he has a hard time negotiating with Nazis, so I don't think political correctness is what doomed this fight.

 

Remember those idiots who said Pacman will gain fans for "speaking the truth" with those ****phonic remarks? Pacman needs to retire, he's a disgrace.

 

Great! It shouldn't have been ppv anyway. I hope more of these type fights tank. Maybe then we will start seeing more fights on premium tv instead of ppv.

 

Should've gone with Crawford

 

He is right about one thing though, fans are retaliating for the sparring match they called the "fight of the century". Neither Pac nor Floyd deserve our money ( I didn't buy their ppv since 2009)

 

To nobody's surprise. Except Arum.

 

I had predicted 350k or less, and that was before Pacquiao's comments on gays.
Arum now is using Pacquiao's comments on gays as an excuse for people tuning out. Its all hogwash of course. The matchup was just one that fans had already seen twice.

They fought twice and both fights turned out similar in the way they unfolded. Nothing in those two fights gave viewers a craving to see it again, so I was really surprised that Arum would do it again.

Arum is saying the fight did between 400 and 500k but ring insiders are speculating it possibly did less than 400k, and I'm pretty sure that's the case is there was little traffic in this forum in anticipation for that fight.

 

Bradley has never been a draw, and Pacquiao was coming of a year off after a massively anti-climactic loss to Mayweather.

Numbers are hardly shocking

 

Yep. No large scale following or outside interest from his close nit fan base.

Awful fighter promotion for his whole career.

 

Thinking back. This fight was a joke.

Everything about it stinks of pandering to Pac to get a win, a convincing potential career last win, against an opponent they could talk up as competitive.

The Pac loyalists must be reeling after all this nonsense to the floyd/pac build up about who is the A side and the bigger draw.

The numbers speak for them self pots last May.

Pac/Arum really should have picked a better fighter.