GREAT G and others

[FashionTV]

some random numbers

1993 Michael Carbajal vs Humberto Gonzalez – 125 000
1995 Tommy Morrison vs Donovan Ruddock – no report was given.
1995 Roy Jones Jr. vs Vinny Pazienza – 160 000
1997 Roy Jones Jr. vs Montell Griffin – 160 000
2000 Roy Jones Jr. vs Eric Harding – 125 000
2002 Erik Morales Vs Paulie Ayala – 120 000
2003 Marco Antonio Barrera vs Kevin Kelley – no report was given.
2003 Erik Morales vs Guty Espadas Jr. II – no report was given.
2003 Evander Holyfield vs James Toney – 150 000
2003 Bernard Hopkins vs William Joppy – no report was given.
2004 Fres Oquendo vs John Ruiz, Andrew Golota vs Chris Byrd – 180 000
2004 Mike Tyson vs Danny Williams – 150 000
2004 Erik Morales vs Carlos Hernandez – 140 000
2004 Vitali Klitschko vs Danny Williams – 120 000
2005 Marco Antonio Barrera vs Mzonke Fana – 75 000
2005 Julio Cesar Chavez vs Ivan Robinson – 100 000
2005 Hasim Rahman vs Monte Barrett – 30 000
2005 Shannon Briggs vs Ray Mercer – 10 000
2005 Marco Antonio Barrera vs Robbie Peden – 110 000
2006 Antonio Margarito vs Manuel Gomez – 70 000
2006 Miguel Cotto vs Paulie Malignaggi – 90 000 (<--------------- look at cotto's debut on PPV)
2006 Oleg Maskaev vs Hasim Rahman – 60 000
2006 Marco Antonio Barrera vs Rocky Juarez II – 165 000
2007 Roy Jones Jr. vs Anthony Hanshaw – 25 000
2007 David Diaz vs Erik Morales – 100 000
2007 Evander Holyfield vs Sultan Ibragimov – 75 000
2008 Juan Manuel Marquez vs Joel Casamayor – 100 000
2010 Roy Jones Jr. vs Bernard Hopkins II – 150 000
2010 Evander Holyfield vs Francois Botha – no report was given
2011 Evander Holyfield vs Sherman William – no report was given.
2011 Erik Morales vs Marcos Maidana – 50 000 (<---------------------)
2011 Bernard Hopkins vs Chad Dawson – 40 000
2013 Timothy Bradley vs Juan Manuel Marquez – no report was given.

K2 and HBO - they should keep doing the work they are doing for GREAT G.

G vs Quillin/Jacobs winner is a PPV fight, hot and extremely big.
G vs Froch is a definitely big dual-PPV (US/UK) fight (if Carl decides to fight).
G vs Canelo
G vs Cotto

[Nights King]

So Ward fans how much buys do you think he does on his PPV Debut?

[FashionTV]

such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance

[IFightDirty]

How much time did it take to find this? Anyway point taken. For his first PPV, against a relative unknown, GGG did well. However not well enough to really have Cotto or Canelo feel they have to face him immediately.

I'd like the winner of Cotto/Canelo fight the winner of Saunders/Lee and the winner of that can fight the winner of GGG/Quillin or Jacobs. Assuming the Cotto/Canelo winner beats Saunders/Lee, which I believe will happen and GGG beats Jacobs/Quillin which I also believe will happen then it will provide the hype and anticipation the fight deserves. GGG vs Canelo/Cotto is a huge fight and it deserves the hype and excitement of one.

[FashionTV]

How much time did it take to find this?

here is the link

[IFightDirty]

here is the link

Good find. I thought you looked up each fight individually.

[FashionTV]

Good find. I thought you looked up each fight individually.

well almost (at least I was trying) and then i found this article

[Robbie Barrett]

Cotto-Malignaggi was competing against Hopkins-Tarver fighting on the same night.

[FashionTV]

Cotto-Malignaggi was competing against Hopkins-Tarver fighting on the same night.

"It will do just over 150,000 buys, which was the number we originally based things on when we talked to [Lemieux promoter] Golden Boy about making the fight to determine how much Lemieux would need and what Gennady would need," Loeffler said.

During the buildup to the fight, Loeffler was bullish that the event could exceed their initial expectations because of how much buzz the fight was getting and the fact that they sold out Madison Square Garden. But faced with tremendous competition from college football games and a popular National League Championship Series between the New York Mets and Chicago Cubs -- involving two huge markets -- the fight suffered, Loeffler said.

"I thought it would have a good chance to break 200,000, but with all the college football games and no way to predict the Mets would be playing the Cubs -- a high-end playoff series -- it was tough," he said. "A lot of people were watching baseball in those big markets, but overall, we were happy with the event. When you can sell every single ticket to Madison Square Garden and generate a gate of over $2 million, you're happy."

"Golovkin-Lemieux met or exceeded every benchmark of success which was set going into the event," Taffet told ESPN.com. "The PPV buys solidly met expectations even amidst the Mets-Cubs national telecast registering the highest-ever TBS baseball playoff viewership, including the PPV-critical markets of New York and Chicago. This, combined with the palpable excitement of the sold-out crowd in Madison Square Garden and the in-ring performances by Gennady Golovkin and [co-feature winner Roman] 'Chocolatito' Gonzalez, encourage us that the next great era of boxing has begun and will continue with the highly-anticipated [Miguel] Cotto-Canelo [Alvarez)] megafight on Nov. 21."

"A lot of people focus on the American market, but he had one of the highest rated international shows in the U.K. on BoxNation, on SAT.1 in Germany and the biggest channel in Russia. He was also on Polsat, the biggest channel in Poland, for the first time. And on top of that, the Garden told us we broke the merchandise record for any boxing event there: over $122,000."

[Robbie Barrett]

"It will do just over 150,000 buys, which was the number we originally based things on when we talked to [Lemieux promoter] Golden Boy about making the fight to determine how much Lemieux would need and what Gennady would need," Loeffler said.

During the buildup to the fight, Loeffler was bullish that the event could exceed their initial expectations because of how much buzz the fight was getting and the fact that they sold out Madison Square Garden. But faced with tremendous competition from college football games and a popular National League Championship Series between the New York Mets and Chicago Cubs -- involving two huge markets -- the fight suffered, Loeffler said.

"I thought it would have a good chance to break 200,000, but with all the college football games and no way to predict the Mets would be playing the Cubs -- a high-end playoff series -- it was tough," he said. "A lot of people were watching baseball in those big markets, but overall, we were happy with the event. When you can sell every single ticket to Madison Square Garden and generate a gate of over $2 million, you're happy."

"Golovkin-Lemieux met or exceeded every benchmark of success which was set going into the event," Taffet told ESPN.com. "The PPV buys solidly met expectations even amidst the Mets-Cubs national telecast registering the highest-ever TBS baseball playoff viewership, including the PPV-critical markets of New York and Chicago. This, combined with the palpable excitement of the sold-out crowd in Madison Square Garden and the in-ring performances by Gennady Golovkin and [co-feature winner Roman] 'Chocolatito' Gonzalez, encourage us that the next great era of boxing has begun and will continue with the highly-anticipated [Miguel] Cotto-Canelo [Alvarez)] megafight on Nov. 21."

"A lot of people focus on the American market, but he had one of the highest rated international shows in the U.K. on BoxNation, on SAT.1 in Germany and the biggest channel in Russia. He was also on Polsat, the biggest channel in Poland, for the first time. And on top of that, the Garden told us we broke the merchandise record for any boxing event there: over $122,000."

You can't compare other sports events affecting a fight to a bigger fight happening at the same time. You're splitting even the die hard fans that prefer boxing over other sports when two fights are competing.