Article on why Pacquiao-Rios is in China

How dare Pac fight a guy coming of a decision loss after being KTFO cold himself!! That's what I was thinking.

Good read, I thought it was because filipinos where chinese.

Op-Ed: Pacquiao-Arum tandem could break all pay-per-view records The upcoming fight between eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao and former WBA lightweight champion Brandon Rios in Macau, China, could eclipse all past pay-per-view (PPV) records in boxing history. The fight, scheduled for Nov. 24, targets the huge Chinese market as well as the regular PPV market in the US. Pacquiao's promoter Bob Arum, who owns Top Rank Promotions of the US, has been successful in breaking into the huge Chinese market with his initial venture featuring the professional boxing debut of Zou Shiming, China's most popular amateur boxer and Olympic gold medalist. Shiming fought Mexican Eleazar Valenzuela last April 6 in Macau, winning his first fight as a professional boxer via a unanimous decision. The weekend event also featured former WBA flyweight champion Brian Viloria vs. Juan Francisco Estrada in the main undercard. The initial success of Arum's market debut in China, must have pushed the Hall of Fame promoter to further explore what appears to be the world's biggest market for sports, particularly boxing. On Nov.24, Arum will validate his initial success story in China with a powerhouse show featuring the world's most popular boxer, Manny Pacquiao, who will face a top fighter Brandon Rios. The main event will be supported by a powerhouse undercard, featuring the Penalosa brothers of the Philippines. The 81-year-old boxing promoter could be looking at the growth of smartphones and tablets ownership in China which has reportedly surpassed the US figures. Tempo reported that "China has surpassed the US as the leading smartphone market this year with an estimated 250 million active accounts." Assuming Arum gets 20 percent of the number, he could end up with 50 million subscribers and assuming further that he charges only $5.00 each, he could make $250 million in revenues from the fight. This figure is unprecedented in boxing history. The biggest figure for a PPV fight was recorded in 2007 in a fight between Floyd Mayweather vs.Oscar de la Hoya which generated just about 2.4 million buys for revenue of $130 million. Even if Arum gets just a little over 10 percent of the number of smartphones and tablets holders, he still ends up surpassing the the Mayweather- dela Hoya number without even counting the PPV proceeds for the US sales. If these figures are validated on November 24, Pacquiao will have his biggest payday in his entire career. There are reports that Arum will guarantee Pacquaio his usual fee which is in the vicinity of $20-$30 million. But his share in the PPV proceeds will most likely be more than double his guaranteed purse, making him this year's world's highest paid athlete. To drum up the promotions for the fight, Arum is starting early in July to sell the Macau fight to potential ppv buyers in China and in the US. A three city tour has been scheduled in China to include Beijing,Shanghai and Guangzhou while a similar tour will take place later in the US mainland. http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/350701 but jmm should have been aware of this possible big bonanza - him being an accountant...

did you try suicide by slitting your eyebrow when pac beat up cotto? "Oh lawd it's so unaesthetic and uneven....god kill me now!!!"

??????? Relax Ping Pong...drugs are still not right.:killyou: did you try suicide by slitting your eyebrow when pac beat up cotto?

Not before Shane took his soul

I'm sure that another reason is that they can avoid paying the almost 40% tax rate that they hit you with here in the U.S. When you're making 20-30mil per fight, 40% is A LOT of money! ^^^ Real reason why it's in Macau.

I'm sure that another reason is that they can avoid paying the almost 40% tax rate that they hit you with here in the U.S. When you're making 20-30mil per fight, 40% is A LOT of money!

put shou shiiminngz boring ass in the undercard if you want it to be a real ppv hit in china.

Greatly disappointed that Pacman is fighting a bum coming off a loss... again. Posted from Boxingscene.com App for Android Alvarado is injured.Anyone still thinks the war betwen top rank and golden boy is a good thing?

Greatly disappointed that Pacman is fighting a bum coming off a loss... again. Posted from Boxingscene.com App for Android How dare Pac fight a guy coming of a decision loss after being KTFO cold himself!!

Greatly disappointed that Pacman is fighting a bum coming off a loss... again. Posted from Boxingscene.com App for Android

No it will be regular PPV time in the US buy Sunday day time in China. this it is going to be regular time in the us and sunday morning in china when the fight takes place

20% seems ridiculously optimistic as even 10% would be very impressive...won't this put the PPV on in the middle of the day in the US? It will hugely affect the US sales figures. Might and might not, most who buy PPV's are casuals this will just have them kick the party off earlier and they have there nights free up to hit the clubs, bars partys. so it can work out, Arum going to make power moves here.

20% seems ridiculously optimistic as even 10% would be very impressive...won't this put the PPV on in the middle of the day in the US? It will hugely affect the US sales figures.