By Mark Vester
The Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Ricky Hatton pay-per-view which took place in Las Vegas on December 8 has shattered UK pay-per-view buyrate numbers. According to The Telegraph , Sky Box Office estimates as many as 1.2 million buys and the number can increase to 1.4 million. The final number will not be known until January, but Sky says the final buyrate will be well over 1 million, cracking the 2002 record of 750,000 buys, set by Lennox Lewis vs. Mike Tyson.
It marks the first time in pay-per-view boxing history, that an event will return more UK pay-per-view buys than in the US. Earlier this week, HBO announced a US buyrate of 850,000.
