I am presuming it will have a HBO 24/7, if there is alot of trash talking from jones and hopkins, and alot of heat/hype on the major networks as the fight draws near to get the average interested, can this PPV top 1million buyrate which would be crazy considering these 2 fighters are not near retirement and not anywhere near their primes, which means a insignificant fight to the average new-age boxing fan.
Roy Jones, Jr.'s last HBO PPV with Calzaghe: 225,000 buys
Bernard Hopkins' last HBO PPV with Pavlik: 190,000 buys
Source: Bad Left Hook
I doubt it'll go past 500k to be honest.
I'm not tooo sure, the need to have one helluva Ad campaign for this fight, B-hop has to pick a credible opponent for his tuneup and really whoop his ass. It can do 1 million but if not I'm guessing 800k.