PPV hits gross modest $12.5 M
By Abac Cordero
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
The Manny Pacquiao-David Diaz title bout held in Las Vegas last week drew close to 250,000 hits on pay-per-view, according to Top Rank Promotions president Bob Arum.
“It was okay but not great,” the ageless promoter told a Filipino scribe of the pay-per-view sales that were released exactly a week after Pacquiao scored the sensational win.
The numbers paled in comparison to the 400,000 hits generated worldwide by Pacquiao’s 12-round showdown with Juan Manuel Marquez last March also in Las Vegas. The sales reached over $20 million.
Pacquiao’s three classic fights with Erik Morales drew a combined sales of 1 million pay-per-view hits.
Each hit is worth $49.95 and with close to 250,000 hits sales would reach around $12.5 million. After HBO and Top Rank get their share, the boxers will get theirs depending on what’s stated in the contract.
Pacquiao, the main draw, will get the lion’s share.
The crowd attendance during the fight held at the Events Center of Mandalay Bay wasn’t that great either. With a seating capacity of 12,000 official records showed an attendance of 8,362.
Promoters blamed the failure to pack the venue to the rising cost of gasoline prices as the ordinary fight fan coming in from as far as California would need a few hundred bucks for gasoline to get to Vegas.
Meanwhile, Arum is still hoping that he could find a Las Vegas venue for the planned Nov. 8 match between Pacquiao and Venezuelan knockout artist Edwin Valero.
Arum was informed the other day that the MGM Mirage group cannot accommodate the fight because of two big promotions around the date Arum wants.
There’s the Nov. 22 fight between Ricky Hatton and Paul Malignaggi and the Dec. 6 farewell fight of Oscar dela Hoya. Both fights are set at the MGM Grand, and officials think that it’s not a wise decision to bring in another promotion involving Pacquiao around those dates.
Arum said he’s now looking at the Thomas and Mack Center, where Pacquiao fought Morales twice, or Planet Hollywood.
An Internet report, however, quoted Thomas and Mack director Daren Libonati saying that his facility “wouldn’t work” for a Nov. 8 date because the Professional Bull Riders finals on that night, and a game featuring the UNLV Runnin’ Rebels on the 15th.
“We’re aggressively looking for a date that works for Bob and, potentially, Planet Hollywood,” Libonati said in the report, adding that an October date can be considered.
Why do you watch boxing? Because its entertaining, or because you sit on the edge of your seat waiting for the sales numbers to leak?
Pacquiao is a highly entertaining fighter win or lose. It appears that the fact that he beat down 2 Mexican legends, one of them being my all time favorite, along with a draw which can easily be counted as a win to go along with a victory in the rematch against another Mexican tells me you're still a bit sore.
Get over it. You're making Mexicans look like chumps.
Ain't that the truth!
floyd isn't in boxing no more
for all the talk about pacquiao those are weak numbers
Why do you watch boxing? Because its entertaining, or because you sit on the edge of your seat waiting for the sales numbers to leak?
Pacquiao is a highly entertaining fighter win or lose. It appears that the fact that he beat down 2 Mexican legends, one of them being my all time favorite, along with a draw which can easily be counted as a win to go along with a victory in the rematch against another Mexican tells me you're still a bit sore.
Get over it. You're making Mexicans look like chumps.
Left, I can't let you know that we are on the same page lol. You are cool with me. But we don't have to be on the same page. Wait, did that sound right!!!??? lol
ha ha ha
we're never on the same page.
sometimes we're not even in the same book!
did you vote on the poll yet? i think you're gonna win this one. everyone is agreeing with you.
This is your method of coming up with tune ups that PAc was fighting? lol please. Valero is a 130 lb champ moving up to fight a champ who just moved up and won a title. Those nobodies you named, only larios was a champ, and he was an ex-champ who gave PAc all he could handle. Valero could knock those bums out with 1 arm. You are sleeping on Valero, it the fight happens, and he wins, don't be shocked. lol I won't be.
we'll see...... why can't we ever be on the same side , boof???? lol
vote on my tuneup poll. i just made it.
Arum doesn't have to even utter Valero's name, so why would he be a tune up? Because you say every other fighter has a fight lined up? Arum isn't trying to pit tune-ups against Pac on a regular basis... my God lol. Even Roach says he isn't going to sleep on Valero. You guys have a serious cheap outlook on Valero because you really don't know a thing about him. How many ppv's in a ton? A lot.
larios , velazquez , solis , valero = tuneup
before he fought morales 1 , 2 and 3 he fought 3k battery , larios and velazquez.
before he fought barrera 2 and marquez 2 he fought solis.
he just got a title at 135 and before he goes for another title at 135 or 140 he's gonna fight valero.
the guy you said he was ducking at 130 is nothing more than a tuneup fight at 135.
VALERO=TUNEUP
Yeah, can you imagine how some are even saying Valero would be a tune up,
isn't manny only fighting edwin because everyone else in the division is already scheduled for another fight?
isn't he fighting valero to keep busy before he goes after ricky or another titlist at 135?
sounds like valero is a tuneup to me.......
Yeah, can you imagine how some are even saying Valero would be a tune up, and how they are comparing barrera's low ppv numbers to manny's when barrera has been in like tons more ppv fights than manny lol.
how many ppv's in a ton?
floyd isn't in boxing no more
for all the talk about pacquiao those are weak numbers
can't you ever say one nice thing about the guy?
you know you like watching him fight......
250k buys at lightweight is not bad. diaz was pretty much a tuneup like valero or soto is gonna be.
he doesn't need to be a superstar.
he'd rather be the best fighter in the world. let floyd be the superstar.
floyd isn't in boxing no more
for all the talk about pacquiao those are weak numbers
Those are weak numbers for someone who is suppsedly a superstar.
Just telling it like it is.
he doesn't need to be a superstar.
he'd rather be the best fighter in the world. let floyd be the superstar.
It should be interesting to know how much Cotto-Margarito shall do. There are lots going for it:
1. It's been a much awaited match.
2. The styles of both make for a truly violent confrontation.
3. It feeds on the long-standing PR-Mexican rivalry.
4. Both sides have avid fans.
Who was the other promotor, I forgot?
golden boy and top rank co-promotes all of manny's fights against golden boy fighters.
maybe why uncle bob is hesitant on manny fighting golden boy guys.
Who was the other promotor, I forgot?
golden boy co-promoted pac vs, marquez so the profit was split 50/50. so 250k isnt as bad. look at the article above