De La Hoya vs. Pacquiao: 1.25 Million Pay-Per-View Buys

[JOM'S]

with all the negative press the match-up (call of a mis-match & boycotts) have to endure and the slow economy...

THOSE NUMBERS ARE GREAT!!!

[MikeBrew328]

I find it funny how De La Hoya has fought the 5 richest nonheavyweight fights in history (Mayweather, Pacquiao, Trinidad, Hopkins, and Mosley 2) and has lost every one of them. Boxing needs new superstars

[shadeyfizzle]

you pinoys get more and more ******, the pacquiao fights make you morons more ******ed from all the ****** fantasy thinking u guys do all the time... they accept the fight because mexicans want to see his ass get beat, just like marquez and morales did to him... Ricky hatton.. are u ***ing serious? he has fans crossing the ocean to come and see him dumb ***... the fight hasnt even been made yet and your already getting wet over the ppv sales.. idiot... it wont even do 1 million ill tell you that dumb ***, oscar was the reason why it did over 1 mllion against pacquiao.

You're the only 1 that gets more and more ******. You keep fantasizing the Marquez beat Pacquiao's ass. So what if Hatton has fans that cross the ocean to come see him. If he's got so many fans howcome he's only ever been in 1 ppv?? That can only mean he's not a very bankable ppv draw right?? And so what if it doesnt do 1 million ppv buys?? Pacquiao-Hatton'll still do more ppv buys than any 2 mexicans not named Delahoya going head to head

[Flawless.]

Like I said it would do over 1 million

[Left Hook Tua]

Africa is a continent not a country. Phillip Ndou is from South Africa.

Africa has more than 20 countries. Just clearing that up

[Reggie Miller]

What the ****KK?????!!!!

[BetterCallSaul]

Hatton vs Pac will do 1.5 ppv in the UK alone. Mayweather was not even popular in the UK, he was just hyped by the media. Imagine how much hype the guy, who beat the guy, the other guy struggled to beat will get.

Hatton vs Pac needs to happen.

[Pugilistic™]

my guess was close to that number.

I knew it wouldn't do more than Mayweather/DLH.

[rpogi]

real numbers from hatton v mayweather is 850k ppv or 47mil usd:

The numbers are in, and pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather lived up to his new self-given nickname of "Money" Mayweather.

Mayweather's 10th-round knockout of England's Ricky Hatton to retain the welterweight championship Dec. 8 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas generated a whopping 850,000 domestic pay-per-view buys and $47 million in television revenue, HBO PPV's Mark Taffet said Monday.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Ricky Hatton

Floyd Mayweather, facing, and Ricky Hatton were happy doing business together.
That makes the fight the biggest pay-per-view fight in history that did not involve Oscar De La Hoya or heavyweights Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield.

"Mayweather-Hatton was one of boxing's most memorable nights of the past decade and was the perfect ending to a resurgent year for the sport," Taffet said. "Also, in becoming the highest-grossing PPV fight ever in which neither a heavyweight nor a Latino superstar was featured, Mayweather-Hatton blazed a new trail, which opens new doors and bodes very well for the future."

Mayweather-Hatton, which generated 520,000 subscriptions from cable homes and 330,000 from satellite homes, was the second-biggest boxing pay-per-view fight of the year. But Mayweather was also half of the biggest one.

His decision victory against De La Hoya on May 5 generated numerous records, including 2.4 million PPV buys and $134 million in PPV revenue.

With a second blockbuster pay-per-view event this year, Mayweather earned about $50 million in purses.

The fight also capped a record-breaking year for HBO PPV, Taffet said. Its eight boxing events sold 4.8 million units and generated $255 million.

That breaks the 1999 record of 4 million buys and $200 million.

Dan Rafael covers boxing for ESPN.com.

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=3158134

[Mayfeather]

thats a whole lot of dollars