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| Mayweather vs. Cotto: Las Vegas Business Breakdown
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By Rick Reeno The junior middleweight bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Miguel Cotto generated big business in Las Vegas. The event, which took place on May 5th at the MGM Grand, saw a gate of $12,000,150 - with 14,612 tickets sold, 938 comps and 36 tickets unsold. Regarding the closed circuit sales, 11 MGM-owned locations reported a total gate of $717,450 - with 9,566 tickets sold and 4,208 unsold. As previously reported, the fight generated 1.5 million buys on HBO pay-per-view. The buy total is $94 million in pay-per-view revenue, ranking the show as the second highest grossing non-heavyweight pay-per-view event in boxing history. Tags: Floyd Mayweather Jr.  , Miguel Cotto , Mayweather-Cotto , Mayweather vs Cotto |
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comment by El Angel, on 05-18-2012 |
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Glad everyone who tuned saw a great fight between two of the sport's best and not a one sided wipeout like everyone expected. |
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comment by WESS, on 05-18-2012 |
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Mayweather vs Cotto >>>>>>>>> Pac vs Cotto
end thread. |
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comment by MrRolltide91, on 05-18-2012 |
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[QUOTE=reeflegend]Your wrong..considering they sold 10 thousand in MGM owned venues...4 thousand isn't a lot...that's within a half a mile range if MGM
Still your avoiding facts...you can't argue cause you don't know how many tickers manny sells closed circuit. So your initial point makes no s... |
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comment by GRUSTLER, on 05-17-2012 |
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[QUOTE=Mr. Fantastic]Seeing it from a neutral side Floyd fans are worse than Pac. Pac fans admire him more for his fighting and Floyd fans admire the fighter and the money he makes. Like they get a part of it or something.[/QUOTE]
From a neutral side? Come on man. Pac fans are always comparing... |
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