Bob Arum said he's been hearing these estimates, BUT if this is ANYWHERE near true, Floyd has just lost ALL negotiating leverage, and will have to fight on Pac's terms....:yep Pac is the MAN, and Floyd CLEARLY needs him more than vice versa:happy
Don't ever, I mean EVER believe what Mob Arum says! Wait for the official HBO press release, and about the 90% to 70% of that number is the truth, like always.
good call, i'm no math wiz, but that would be about something like 1.2 then right?, still very good numbers, esp. considering neither were american
Arrum is probably including the 800k-1million of Hatton fans that would have bought it in Britain, no way this did near 1.6m in the US
It usually takes a week for HBO to count the numbers, but it took months for them to get the final numbers for Floyd-DLH. It's not that easy and it takes time. And they release numbers in 50k and 100k steps and they always make it look better. So they lie, and better than that: the lie is inaccurate. Anyway, the numbers will be very strong.
You guys are probably right about the "Bobfather".....Yet, I do keep my ears glued to the public and in my neck of the woods, the fight was the main thing as far as entertainment, so I know it did well..
I hate to burst everyone's bubble, but that CNN article that "broke the news" using USA Today as a reference made an epic **** up. Apparently when Googling references, he stumbled across the USA Today article for De La Hoya-Pacquiao. Here's the article claiming Pac-Hatton did 1.6 - 2 Million buys.... -------------------------- Manny in the money after Las Vegas win http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/05/04/manny.money/index.html USA Today reported Monday that early indications from cable companies were that the scheduled 12-round light-welterweight bout could get as many as two million buys. Co-promoter Bob Arum was delighted with the figures especially as initial estimates were suggesting about one million boxing fans would shell out their cash. "We know based on those early numbers and based on experience the event will perform extremely well. If I had to guess, anywhere between 1.6 million and two million homes, which is a home run," he said. -------------------------- Now if you go to the USA Today web site they have no article mentioning PPV numbers for this fight, other than an article from a few weeks back when Arum said anything over 800K would be a homerun. They do however have this in their archives... -------------------------- De La Hoya-Pacquiao pay-per-view could be 'home run' http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2008-12-05-pay-per-view-de-la-hoya-pacquiao_N.htm Based on early reports from cable companies and DirecTV and Dish Network, the scheduled 12-round welterweight bout could get as many as two million buys, according to Bob Arum, chairman of Top Rank, Inc., the event's co-promoter, said Thursday. When De La Hoya fought Floyd Mayweather last year, that fight did 2.4 million buys. Buys for this weekend's fight in California are tracking at 90% of what estimates showed for De La Hoya-Mayweather. "Will that hold for the country? It's like an election. Who the hell knows?" Arum said. "But we know based on those early numbers and based on experience the event will perform extremely well. If I had to guess, anywhere between 1.6 million and two million homes, which is a home run." -------------------------- :-(
Cubanlink is WAC.. Hes a cornball who people only listen to whens he's talking about FatJoe :deal He's needs to stand on his own 2 and get off Joes dick.
Mayweather is a bigger name than both Hatton and Pac... and Marquez will draw huge numbers from the hispanic community as well. I didn't buy Pac - Hatton, but no doubt I'll be buying PBF - Marquez.
