the daily telegraph . a white collar newspaper in the uk beleives it could go as high as 1,400,000 ppv buys in the uk and that hatton earned $40 million and the figure could go up , from his share of the mayweather fight perhaps more. official sky figures do not come out until the end of january though.
i have no idea about american ppv history. biggest fight ever on sky ppv. but then again 95% of uk ppv tend to take place in the early hours of the morning.