Will Mayweather-Mosley reach 3 million PPV buys?
March 6th, 2010
By Chris Williams
If the May 1st fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Shane Mosley fails to pick up interest from Hispanic boxing fans, will this fight be able to reach the 3 million pay-per-view mark that Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer has predicted for it? This is a fight that matches Mayweather, a fighter that doesn’t like to mix it up very much, against Mosley who has a crowd pleasing style of fighting that could bring in boxing fans from all nationalities in the U.S.
Hispanic fans tend to want to see more entertaining fights, as George Willis of the New York Post points out and they could be turned off towards watching a fight involving Floyd Mayweather in particular because this fight is going to cost $49.95 to watch. The Mayweather-Mosley fight will do well regardless of whether a lot of Hispanic fans purchase the fight on pay-per view, but it might come up for short of Schaefer’s ambitious prediction for the fight.
It’s certainly more than worthy of those kinds of numbers because Mayweather and Mosley could be the #1 and #2 fighters in the entire welterweight division. However, Mosley is 38-years-old, hasn’t fought in over a year, and hasn’t been involved in any mega fights in the past seven years since his last fight with Oscar De La Hoya in 2003.
Mosley has continued fighting since then but he hasn’t had an opponent across from him like De La Hoya that made any of his fights huge PPV draws like the Mayweather bout will be on May 1st. Mosley has the exciting style that would attract Hispanic viewers, but he’s struggled in fights against Winky Wright and Miguel Cotto, losing to both fighters in the past seven years.
Mosley probably won’t be enough on his own to draw Hispanic fans to want to put their money down in big numbers to watch Mayweather running around the ring trying to avoid getting hit all night long. That seems like a recipe for fan frustration rather than excitement. The fight will do well regardless of whether Hispanic fight fans show interest in the fight, but without them I can’t see the Mayweather-Mosley fight reaching the 3 million pay per view mark that Schaefer is predicting.
Even if Golden Boy Promotions tries to market the fight to the Hispanic audience, I’m not sure they will show interest in this fight to help it reach the 3 million mark. It will take a better undercard that is currently put with this fight, and the focus would have to be more on the undercard than the main event, because the Mayweather-Mosley fight could be a stinker if Mayweather runs around the ring all night long.
I hope so, pACTARDS don't coz they don't support the sport of boxing, they just like Pacquiao. Dumb cunts.
lemme ask you this. Do you think Manny is good for boxing, or do you just hate him that much?
How many PPV have reached 1M?
1.2M buys is a success IMO
A success yes, but reality is hitting those who thought it was bigger than it was. No record will be broken, no bargaining chips will be overly stacked on Floyds table when it's time to make the PAC-Floyd fight. It earned, and all i'm sure aren't crying about not making enough cash. It just wasn't the record breaking end all PPV like most PBF fans would have liked.
Now, i am sure these numbers are all preliminary, and will most likely be rounded off to the higher number, but that's the biz. None of the dough falls into my pocket unfortunately, so why care.
How many PPV have reached 1M?
1.2M buys is a success IMO
No one is disputing getting a million buys is significant but saying things that it will reach as much as 4mill or even half of that is just totally whacked out!
Damn, where is Horus????
it was a pretty big fight...i dont think 3 mill...i reckon maybe 2.5 million....anyways both of em got a big fat cheque for their fight and in the end also most probs got 50% each of the ppv buys
less than a week later after the pacquiao vs clottey they had an idea of how many ppv #s they had, bob arum said more than 650,000, i think they are trying to pull something. nobody is saying anything exept for quoting kevin iole. blubber mouth is not saying anything, if they were going to be big #s you could put ten tampons in his mouth and still he would be able to say he did great #s
3 Million? Yeah right more like 1.5 million at the most! Is this going to be a ppv world-wide? If so then I think 3 million sounds possible, but if its only ppv in America where the economy isn't all that great then they will not be making 3 million off this fight.
I would be extremely shocked if it even got close to Mayweather-DLH, let alone 3 million. I'm giving these two and the promotion the benefit of the doubt and saying between 1.7 and 2 million.