Canelo/Williams PPV Buys

I would guess just a little bit North of 300k around 310-315k given it has a stacked undercard which Oscar said he was going to do.

Depends on whose the card. My initial guess would be 200-250K.

Less than 500k. It is going to have a 24/7 series along with ads on TNT right? Yeah I think this has potential to hit the 500k mark. Anything over 250k is a success in my opinion. This is going to be his first PPV headliner after all. What was Floyd Mayweather's first PPV numbers? As well as Manny Pacquiao's?

300k or higher is a success!

Let's be real, he generate 1.4 mil on regular HBO, he's getting MAYBE 200K buys and that's a stretch

I would say 350k as a severe optimist and boxing enthusiast...between 250k and 300k would be a great number for this fight...We joke about Canelo being overhyped, but he is going to brutalize Williams...Canelo is very orthodox for a mexican fighter, I'd even go so far as to call him slick on defense. Canelo doesn't have a crazy work rate and he will let you punch yourself out before he'll go to war with you, but the man will beat you. He is 21 damn years old, he is a ginger, and he will beat your ass. When he hits you, he makes it count. Canelo TKO8, gettin hit by bricks round after round hurts a bit more than PWill's slap happy garbage.

Do you guys ever heard of free to air? PM

Uh, choices should have been 150k, 200k, 250k, 300k, etc... Starting at 500k is ridiculous. This is not a big fight at all.

250-350k buys

I think about 300,000. If they sell 'em for $60 each it should come out to $18,000,000. The cable company keeps about half of that, but that's still about $9,000,000 + live gate going to the fighters/promoters. It should be a good pay day for everyone involved if it does 300,000.

250k to 350k those would be great numbers........................

Anything over 300+ is a total success

Canelo-Williams is a horrible match for Canelos 1st PPV match. Canelo isnt a star in the US yet. To sell over 500K PPVs youd have to have matched him against a guy with a name like Cotto or maybe even Victor Ortiz. Williams is NO PPV draw. And is last remembered for being KTFO by Martinez. This is an HBO fight at best. The only hope this card has is stacking the Undercard with fighters like Ortiz, Maidana, Cotto, and Kahn.

200k. Ill be one of them. Say what you want about Oscar and GBP, but they've done right by Canelo and brought him along perfectly. Look at his career thus far against Chavez Jr; no comparison. I can't believe he's the same fighter we saw on the Mayweather-Mosley undercard.

The most 300k

I would say 300k is a good number for them to shoot for.

300k. I think Golden Boy is doing a great job of developing their young champion. He's defeated a name fighter on the biggest ppv event in 5 years. That momentum should carey into this fight. Now what you have, is a respected fighter who was once untouchable. A guy that's going to throw 1,000 punches and give Canelo plenty of chances to land clean shots and score an impressive ko victory. If not, this will be a 12 round war with over 1,500 punches thrown. Regardless, Canelo will leave this fight with more fans and more respect than he came into the fight with. And it sets up a superfight possibly on Cinco de Mayo 2013 with Miguel Cotto.

Well going thru different forums and websites,There is buzz about this fight and fans seems to like this fight alot.But it seems there not happy about it being ppv.So if they promote it good and have a good undercard it could do well.Hopefully if hbo or showtime get it they have a 24-7 or 360 to promote the fighters

If he does 250-300K, I think that's about right for what we think his ability to draw people in is. If he does less, maybe we jumped the gun on how popular he really is in this country so far. And if he does more than 300K, like around 350-400K against Paul Williams, than Canelo becomes a legit PPV star/draw in my eyes. Floyd's first few PPV's did pretty well for where he was at the time. He did 360K with Gatti, 350K with Judah, and 315K with Baldomir. If Canelo can match those numbers in his first PPV fight, that'd be good for him. People need to remember that most fighters didn't do 1 million buys all the time like Floyd and Manny, s**t even Oscar only did over 1 million 4 times, and 2 of those times were with Floyd and Manny. If he does less than 250K, I think they failed a bit. If he does between 250-350, it's a success and where I expect it to be. If he exceeds 350K, I think it's a huge success for Canelo's first PPV.

It will do quite bad I'd imagine. 200k maybe? That actually may not be so bad. We're somewhat damaged seeing multiple 1million+ fights.