Pacquiao vs. Hatton could hit 2 million PPV buys

[MOREBASS]

Exactly! These idiots believe the Arum numbers... LMAO.

They aren't Arum numbers you moron. They are based on early comeback reports.

They are projections, based on calculations.


Unlike your idiotic assumptions, these projections actually have a base.

[flipbjefrox]

It's not about believing or not, nobody here claimed they believe it. It's about dumbass Hector responding to Pac threads again. The basement dweller is attracted to anything pinoy.

notice how he quick he responded

[Left Hook Tua]

It's not about believing or not, nobody here claimed they believe it. It's about dumbass Hector responding to Pac threads again. The basement dweller is attracted to anything pinoy.

lolo , i think it might be accurate.

arum spoke quickly about it.

when it's bad , arum says they're still waiting for figures.

[VaBoriKua 2.0]

2 million my ass..

i bet u want 2 million in your ass f@gg0t

[QUISQUEYA]

2 million my ass..

X-Man,

Here's the real deal. Ignore the idiots:

• MILLION BUYS? -- Mark Taffet, HBO's senior vice president of sports operation and pay-per-view programming, might talk a lot, but one thing he never does is predict how a fight will do in consumer buys.

However, Taffet believes the slumping economy might have helped drive PPV sales for Saturday's Pacquiao-Hatton fight.

"In tough economic times, the big fights usually thrive," Taffet said. "People want to see the big fights, and they will find a way to watch."

The fight, which was priced at $49.95 and had a $20 rebate through Tecate beer, figured to do well in the United States, even though neither fighter is an American.

"These two guys have an incredible fan following," Taffet said of Pacquiao and Hatton. "They have delivered big numbers in the past."

Pacquiao's fight with Oscar De La Hoya in December did 1.25 million buys, while Hatton's 2007 fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. did 915,000 buys. Taffet said anything more than 500,000 buys is considered very good.
But when asked if he thought Pacquiao-Hatton would do 1 million buys, Taffet paused.

"There have only been a select few fights that have done those kinds of numbers," he said. "However, the potential is there with this fight to reach that level."

The PPV numbers from the fight should be known this week.

Contact reporter Steve Carp at scarp@reviewjournal.com or 702-387-2913

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^ That means nothing, so you can quit whispering little nothings to your butt-buddy there.


This was before the fight, and before they got any type of reports back from the cable companies.


The article posted, was after the initial reports, and they were in regards to the projected number of buys they think that this fight could generate in the end, based on the cable companies' initial report.

[dde91]

i say 1.5 mil. if higher then that then ****!!!!! Boxing is BACK!!! ON TOP

[gopi11]

Floyd's ****ed if the initial numbers accurate, and if his PPV fight against JMM bombed out, he's got nothing as leverage on the bargaining table...

[Ray*]

I would rather take HBO's number than what Bob Arum reported said to a newspaper, We still havent got the official numbers from the cotto/Margarito fight.