Rafael said on his chat this week: “I have good industry sources who swear on their children that this fight will not reach 1 million buys, much less be ‘in excess’ if 1 million and I believe them. These are people with no dog in the fight who I respect and have known for many years and trust. I am told that the number right now is about 870,000 buys.”
Rafael doesn’t think another 130,000 buys are going to materialize by the time the final tally is in.
If the numbers that Rafael is taking about is true then it makes it even more for Mayweather to agree on a fight against WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez for September because only Canelo has the popularity to shoot Mayweathyer’s PPV totals back well above 1 million PPV buys. The only fighter besides Canelo that can do this is Manny Pacquiao, but of course that will likely never happen due to a number of reasons that are well known to boxing fans.
Rafael said recently that for Showtime to turn a profit on the Mayweather-Guerrero fight it would have had to bring in between 1.1 to 1.2 million PPV buys. At 870,000, it would appear that the fight will be a loss for Showtime, if what Rafael says is true.
Rafael doesn’t think another 130,000 buys are going to materialize by the time the final tally is in.
If the numbers that Rafael is taking about is true then it makes it even more for Mayweather to agree on a fight against WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez for September because only Canelo has the popularity to shoot Mayweathyer’s PPV totals back well above 1 million PPV buys. The only fighter besides Canelo that can do this is Manny Pacquiao, but of course that will likely never happen due to a number of reasons that are well known to boxing fans.
Rafael said recently that for Showtime to turn a profit on the Mayweather-Guerrero fight it would have had to bring in between 1.1 to 1.2 million PPV buys. At 870,000, it would appear that the fight will be a loss for Showtime, if what Rafael says is true.
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