What's the greatest flop in boxing PPV history???

Maskaev-Rahman

 

For crappy PPV main events:

1) Leonard-Duran 3
2) Jones-Harding


Jones-Harding made Tarver-Jones 3 look action packed.

 

No, it didn't.

365k

 

That Don King Heavyweight PPV card that had Rahman vs Meehan, Holyfield vs Donald, McCline, Byrd, Golota, Brewster etc. only sold 80k PPV buys. :rofl atsch

That is pathetic for having 8 Heavyweights on the card.

 

Lewis vs Holyfield 1 was very entertaining.

 

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The Vitali Klitschko-Hasim Rahman heavyweight championship fight will take place Nov. 12 at UNLV's Thomas & Mack Center and will be broadcast on HBO PPV, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum told ESPN.com Friday.


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And after a week of intense negotiations, HBO landed the television rights to the year's biggest heavyweight fight, winning a spirited competitionwith rival Showtime.

"The fight is going to HBO," Arum said. "HBO and Showtime both made offers and I didn't tell either one what the other was offering. They were both comparable but I was more comfortable with HBO's offer."

"HBO Pay Per View will be televising the biggest heavyweight fight of the year," HBO PPV's Mark Taffet said. "It's good to know boxing fans can mark down the date for this much anticipated battle."
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]“[/FONT][FONT=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]I have an obligation to Klitschko to get the best possible return on this fight. The truth is that HBO has more experience and manpower to handle these big fights.[/FONT][FONT=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] ”[/FONT][FONT=Times,serif]— [/FONT][FONT=Times,serif]Bob Arum, on one reason why the Klitschko-Rahman fight will air on HBO PPV[/FONT]
Showtime had no comment, but part of its proposal included giving Top Rank several lucrative dates on its "Showtime Championship Boxing" series and prospect-oriented show "ShoBox: The New Generation" this year and next.

"The Showtime offer had some bells and whistles, like future dates for Top Rank, but I didn't think that was appropriate," said Arum, who notified the networks on Friday.

"I have an obligation to Klitschko to get the best possible return on this fight. The truth is that HBO has more experience and manpower to handle these big fights."

Because the promotional rights to Klitschko-Rahman were won on a purse bid, Arum is the beneficiary of an obscure WBC rule that gives the winning promoter one option on the winner of the fight in his next title defense. Under the purse bid terms, Klitschko (35-2, 34 KOs) is due 65 percent of the winning bid ($7,800,065) and Rahman (41-5-1, 33 KOs) gets 35 percent ($4,200,350).

However, as a show of good faith to Klitschko, Arum said he tweaked Klitschko's deal to include an upside if the fight is profitable. Arum said maximizing Klitschko's take was one of the reasons he went with HBO.

That decision was reached after discussing the offers with Klitschko's German advisers in Budapest Wednesday.

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Another reason the fight went to HBO is because Arum said he and HBO Sports President Ross Greenburg, who have had a frosty recent relationship because of the way Arum thinks he and his fighters have been treated by the network, have smoothed things over.

"Ross promised me that he won't treat me like a stepchild anymore," Arum said. "We'll get our fair share of dates. I didn't get anything in writing but if you can't rely on Ross Greenburg's word, you can't rely on anyone's."

The fight, dubbed "Seek and Destroy," officially will be announced Sept. 19 in Los Angeles followed by media tour stops in Las Vegas (Sept. 20), Atlantic City (Sept. 24) and New York (Sept. 26).

Top Rank, which doesn't promote Klitschko or Rahman, shocked the boxing industry last week when it submitted a winning purse bid of $12.001 million for the mandatory fight. The Top Rank bid beat an $11 million offer from Rahman promoter Don King and a $10.7 million bid by K2 Promotions, Klitschko's company.

Arum cut a site deal with Harrah's and the new Wynn Las Vegas resort to sponsor the fight, but it will be at the Thomas & Mack Center because neither casino has its own arena.

Hotel magnate Steve Wynn, making a strong move to get back into boxing, also brokered a similar deal with Top Rank to sponsor the Oct. 8 Diego Corrales-Jose Luis Castillo lightweight championship rematch.

The merger this year of rival casinos MGM Grand and Mandalay Bay left little competition for fights in Las Vegas. But Wynn's reemergence has given the fight game another serious player. MGM had shown interest in Klitschko-Rahman but Wynn made Arum a more attractive offer.

Arum said welterweight titlist Antonio Margarito will defend his belt on the undercard, probably against brawler Manny Gomez.

Also expected to see action on the televised portion of the card include junior bantamweight titlist Martin Castillo, widely regarded as the best of the 115-pounders, and junior welterweight prospect Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.

Although Arum's participation in the purse bid was a surprise, he said Top Rank bid because "we just felt it was an underpriced asset. We felt that it was the heavyweight championship of the world and that Klitschko vs. Rahman was an intriguing fight. It'll be a good betting fight. I'm just bound and determined to make this thing a huge success.

I want to just ring up numbers like I think I can. I want this to be the biggest pay-per-view of the year."

That would mean beating the roughly 500,000 buys that Winky Wright's

 

What's that have to do with the thread?

 

khan vs presscot
does anyone know how that did?

 

Wasn't Hopkins / Hadkar a PPV
What's more ironic is that fight happened in Philly - the mecca for slugfests.

 

i might be wrong but i think this might do good numbers. will having guzman-campbell at the same night at free tv might hurt the PPV buy for this one?

 

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COPY AND PASTE. WELL DONE!

 

It was very well hyped.