PPV BUYS: Mayweather and Pacquiao Discussion

Hard data:

Pacquiao

Marquez I 360,000
Morales I 350,000
Morales II 360,000
Morales III 350,000
Solis 200,000
Barrera II 350,000
Marquez II 408,000
Diaz 250,000
De la hoya 1,250,000
Hatton 850,000
Cotto 1,250,000
Clottey 700,000



Floyd

Gatti 340,000
Judah 350,000
Baldomir 320,000
De La Hoya 2,400,000
Hatton 925,000
Marquez 1,050,000
Mosley 1,200,000

All the PPVs in their entirety.

IMO:
Solis was a tuneup and Diaz was not "the man" at lightweight. Otherwise, they had comparable numbers, give or take a bit. The Hatton fights with the two were nearly equal, so were the Mosley and Cotto fights, old/shot debates aside.

Two outliers in the data include DLH and Marquez, both in Floyd's favor. Lurking variables for these fights include the fact that 24/7 BEGAN with the DLH vs Floyd fight, as well as the consensus that DLH was not as "shot" as by the time he fought Pacquiao, and additionally the notion of DLH vs Pacquiao at the time as a 'joke fight,' that Manny was going to get walked on.

Marquez can be explained by the timing of the fights, with Manny fighting him pre-DLH, while Floyd fighting him post. Success in sales was also attributable to the mutual competitiveness and controversy with the decisions in the fights Marquez had against Pacquiao.

Clottey vs Pacquiao is a third outlier, which can be traced from Clottey's lack of PPV history and following.

Overall, their history is mostly similar and naturally mutually deserving of an even split in the pot.

These are all my opinions, feel free to discuss.:good

 

Problem is, with that much money flowing it would invite a fix.

 

Did you even attempt to read the first post?atsch Flotard

 

He outsold Pacquiao on fights that had extreme circumstances that you refuse to see.

 

Stop posting cliche's and understand that what my post really says is that there are variables that affect the numbers. atsch

 

Google buddy, the numbers are pretty ballpark, but efficient enough to infer from.