Pacquiao-Hatton PPV numbers

[baracuda]

but quisqueya's neighbor's friend's cousin said it did under 650k

was his neighbor from the same country as quisqueya?...lol

[Jim Jeffries]

825K, maybe 850K in a much worse economy than Floyd/Hatton's 915K. Pretty damn impressive. Looks like Quisqueya/Dios Dominicano was FULL of %$#@ after all.

[jcarr71]

Rafael isn't the type of writer to pull **** out of his ass. He can be kind of a arrogrant prick to read sometimes, but he's reliable. If he says 800k+ then that is the number. It is a really impressive number. Considering that in a much, much better economy, Mayweather (against a much more credible Hatton) barely beat those numbers is very telling.

[flipbjefrox]

825K, maybe 850K in a much worse economy than Floyd/Hatton's 915K. Pretty damn impressive. Looks like Quisqueya/Dios Dominicano was FULL of %$#@ after all.

no no the guy around quisqueya's house is more reliable. how dare you insult his source

[baracuda]

825K, maybe 850K in a much worse economy than Floyd/Hatton's 915K. Pretty damn impressive. Looks like Quisqueya/Dios Dominicano was FULL of %$#@ after all.

i heard dominicans are really really good with numbers!......lol

[guru]

wow, so take out oscar, holy and tyson and no PPV has ever sold over a million.... interesting...

[WhoreUs]

no no the guy around quisqueya's house is more reliable. how dare you insult his source

i trust quisqeya's numbers.

he's sleeping with mark taffet.

[mrpain81]

3rd source now.

R. Thomas Umstead -- Multichannel News, 5/13/2009 9:32:00 AM MT
HBO PPV's May 2 Manny Pacquiao-Ricky Hatton fight generated north of 800,000 buys, according to several pay-per-view industry sources

HBO officials uncharacteristically did not release official PPV buy numbers for the event, in which Pacquiao knocked out Hatton in the second round. Typically, HBO releases PPV buys for its best performing events, most recently the 1.2 million buys it generated for the December 2008 Pacquiao-Oscar De La Hoya fight.

But sources within the PPV industry estimate buys for the fight at over the 800,000 mark, which would place the fight in the neighborhood of the 915,000 buys for the December 2007 Hatton-Floyd Mayweather fight.

HBO senior vice president of sports operations and pay-per-view Mark Taffet would not comment on the Hatton-Pacquaio buy figure, but said the Hatton-Pacquiao event was a "true PPV megafight" and added it sets the stage for other potentially strong performing PPV boxing events for 2009.

Up first is the July 18 Mayweather-Juan Manuel Marquez bout, marking the undefeated Mayweather's first fight since retiring from the sport last June. If Mayeweather wins, it could set up a highly anticipated Mayweather-Pacquiao fight later in the year.

"Manny Pacquiao established himself as a pay-per-view star, igniting a boxing resurgence that will continue with the Mayweather-Marquez fight and carry through the rest of the year."

Satellite provider DirecTV would not reveal specific numbers, but did say that the fight performed "above expectations." In Demand, which handles PPV event distribution for most of the cable industry, including its owners Time Warner, Comcast and Cox, said it was too early to determine exact fight PPV figures.

But In Demand president and CEO Robert Jacobson said that given the buzz surrounding the fight both among consumers and cable operators "we're confident that we'll be happy with its performance."

http://www.multichannel.com/article/232480-PPV_Distributors_Pacquiao_Hatton_Connects_On_More_Than_800_000_Buys.php

I found the source for the 650k btw.

[Mary Jane]

How is that if Mayweather/Marquez will have a 24/7 and Pacquiao/Marquez didnt and STILL nearly reached 500K?

Fact is, at this point, its who's hot and who the public wants to get behind.

Its pretty obvious Pac would be just fine fighting Cotto instead of Floyd and calling it a day. Its Floyd who wants to regain the title so he will be at Pacquiao's mercy.

Pacquioao doesnt need Floyd. But for Floyd to accomplish what he wants, he has to go through Pacquiao.

Aint it funny how that works?

I like how you conveniently forget that FMJ-JMM will also be held in a recession, while Pac-JMM II was not. Yet you still pull a random number out of your ass like 200K, and say that with the 24/7, FMJ-JMM better do 600K. You are a loser. A blind fraud, you worship a man that got on his knees for his Papa. 2.4>>>1.25, 910K>810K

Also, LOL at "it's Floyd who wants to regain the title". Buddy, if Pac wants to ***** out of the Floyd fight, get his ass knocked out by Cotto, and quit the sport, then it's fine by me. All it will mean is that Floyd regained his P4P crown the same way Pac gained his P4P crown. Nothing will change, Floyd will still be the greatest of this generation, and you will still be an angry, bitter, old man.

[cortdawg25]

pac did this in a recession, pbf did his numbers in a better economy

ain't no difference really in 2007 or 2009. I think 50/50 ain't unreasonable, even thoguh floyd's #s are tad better