Will Pacquiao v Diaz do big PPV numbers?

divac · Jul 5, 2008

PacDbest said:

I agree with the undercards. I don't want to see Ty fields and Luevano. They're boring.

They should've put Donaire, AJ banal, Concepcion or Victor Ortiz on it.

But it doesn't matter we still Order it. It's Party time whenever Pac fights.

This fight will still sell. Nobody really cared about undercards in the PPV fight. It's still the main events that's sells. Why it will sell??? This is Pac's 1st fight at Lightweight. No Pinoy ever gets a Lightweight belt. The guys he's fighting has a perfect style for a Great fight. There will be no running. It will all depend also in how they hype the Countdown shows. David Diaz seems to have the personallity and Charisma to capture more audience. He entertained the Pinoy Crowds in Berkeley with his Articulate speeches and sense of Humor.

I expect it to sell no lower that 350K. It could break the 400K mark because Diaz can speak English and him and Pac can really generate mainstream interest with guesting with ESPN, Foxsports and any Nightime talkshows.
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Any news if this fight came anywhere close to cracking 350K?

I'm anxious to give PacDbest his props!

CJLightweight · Jul 5, 2008

i think it will only do about 200k same as the larios fight:think

fitzgeraldz · Jul 6, 2008

Does anyone think that Pac v Diaz did good numbers?

smoochp · Jul 6, 2008

fitzgeraldz said:

Does anyone think that Pac v Diaz did good numbers?
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Nope alot of people I know didn't even now about it.

hmi · Jul 6, 2008

4Rounder said:

With slow seat sales for this fight, high ppv price, unattractive undercard, a main event set up for Pacquiao to win, and the promoter already making excuses for the poor sales, this event looks destined to flop.

There arent even reports of HBO making a countdown show, we gotta wait and see if it gets played after the Berto fight.

Oh PacD, your hopes are just set too high.
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Agree with you on all that you said.

dangerousity · Jul 7, 2008

divac said:

I think everyone is forgetting that the two PPV's that Manny Pacquiao was involved in that did'nt involve JMM, Morales, or MAB.....in both those PPV's, Pac vs Solis and Pac vs Larios, both those PPV's had not only Acre on them, but imo even more important for the Latino buy, it had Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. on them.

.....both Acre and Chavez have done well enough headlining a PPV all by themselves, that it no longer makes business sense for Arum to burn those guys on a Pac undercard.

In this David Diaz fight, for the first time ever, Pac will be selling that PPV all by his lonesome with no help whatsoever from a Latino name like Chavez or Acre.

I'm not kidding here, I'm being honest. The Pac-Solis fight did about 225k, I say about 100k of that walked the line and ordered it because they would also benefit from seeing Chavez Jr. and Acre.

.....no such thing in Pac vs David Diaz......honestly, I say this fight will do in the range of 150k, and I may be giving Pac the benefit of the doubt, it may be a little bit less.

:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl at Pacdbest for predicting that it will do above 350k, the MAB and Morales fights did'nt even do that! :nut
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No chavez or Arce here and it did around 250k buys exceeding both Larios & Solis...bit off from the 150k target you mentioned. Considering the minimal amount of promotion money that went into this from HBO (no countdown, a countdown could have boosted it over 300k), I think thats pretty decent numbers.

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