http://www.businessinsider.com/mayweather-pacquiao-pay-per-view-estimates-5-million-buys-2015-5
Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports now reports that based on some of the early figures coming in, the number of pay-per-view buys for Mayweather-Pacquiao will be closer to 5.63 million and could go even higher.
We already know DirecTV sold 1.15 million PPVs, Dish Network sold 500,000, and AT&T's uVerse and Verizon's Fios combined to sell 600,000. That means the satellite and phone companies combined to sell 2.25 million.
Those numbers alone make Mayweather-Pacquiao the second-biggest PPV draw ever. But we are not even close to being finished. We don't know the numbers for the cable companies yet, and according to Iole they typically account for 55% to 65% of total buys.
Iole estimated that if cable companies made up 60% of the sales, the final number of PPV buys would be about 5.625 million. Even if we take the low end of the percentage estimate, the minimum number of PPV sales would be 5 million, with the high end at 6.43 million.
With a PPV buys estimate of 5.625 million, Mayweather will make $167 million to $195 million from the PPV sales alone, with Pacquiao taking home $114 million to $133 million.
Again, that is just from the PPV sales. According to Branch, other revenue streams will generate close to $140 million for the fighters to split.
At the end of the day, Mayweather is going to take home $250 million to $275 million, with Pacquiao clearing $170 million to $190 million.
Not bad for a fight that took less than an hour.
TBE, we get money. Breaking our own records.
this is what gets me about floyds fans lol they think they are succeeding too man...
sounding like adrien broner "he gets money so i get money too"
fight sucked
both are too blame
pacquiao for his excuses and not going pressing like maidana
and floyd for not KOing or punishing pacquiao
both fighters were capable of it, I've seen floyd get offensive against canelo ghost and obviously pac can press like crazy
floyd did a brilliant job,completely tamed the bull.noone else can tame manny like that,for more or less 12 rounds.its boxing,the sweet science,not toe to toe slug fest.manny wasnt even a tough fight for floyd.
just so u know.
it was a small handicapped bull.
floyd did a brilliant job,completely tamed the bull.noone else can tame manny like that,for more or less 12 rounds.its boxing,the sweet science,not toe to toe slug fest.manny wasnt even a tough fight for floyd.
I thought it would be around 4-4.5m buys but this is insane. Too bad we'll never see anything like this ever again.
who wants to see this sh1t again!
look at this! what the puck!
Honestly this blew what I thought it do out the water, I was thinking 3 mill max. This fight generated like 600-800 mill which is absolutely insane
So many pathetic lames on this site complaining as usual about everything. Life must be hard living in the basement surrounded by negativity
So It looks like Showtime is going make $ after all and there's still 1 fight left.
Whatever the end #s turn out to be...we were all ripped off. There was no reason to make the ppv more expensive than normal except to milk more $ out of us. Everyone involved is complicit...the fighters, promoters, tv networks. for those of us celebrating/arguing and hero worshipping one fighter or the other...these numbers should be a sobering reminder that we've been had.
Jesus. $275 mil for 36 minutes of work. $190 mil for lying and fighting not to win.
This is the worst part...May***** did what he always does and looked good doing it but Pac never held up his side of the bargain. He needs to hand em up and hide away in shame.