Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports says Mayweather/Marquez up to 1.6 million PPV

[S.G.]

Maybe 1.6 is an exaggeration but 800k-1mill is already more than a success since "boxing fans" were denying this fight and eager for it do 400-600k.

800k PPV buys against Marquez is making a statement and then some. 1Mill PPV buys vs Marquez should stop the arguments of who the best PPV seller is(of MMA or Boxing). 1.6 would give me a heart attack.

600k would be respectable!

[mrpain81]

Lol i said this before the Marquez-Mayweather fight and i was called crazy. But now people will see that i wasn't just talking out my butt.

Yeah I've been saying that for awhile now too.

[Pretty Boy Greg]

Maybe 1.6 is an exaggeration but 800k-1mill is already more than a success since "boxing fans" were denying this fight and eager for it do 400-600k.

800k PPV buys against Marquez is making a statement and then some. 1Mill PPV buys vs Marquez should stop the arguments of who the best PPV seller is(of MMA or Boxing). 1.6 would give me a heart attack.

My guess its just shy of 1 mil!!

[El Jesus]

He bought the PPV backstage at his own ****ty event.

lol thats hilarious. I know you have a unique respect for MMA, if you say it was a ****ty card, then i will take your word for it.

[Al Haymon]

Rumor: Mayweather-Marquez does around 1 million buys


by SC on Sep 22, 2009 7:51 PM EDT in Rumors 18 comments



Early indicators say that around one million people saw Floyd Mayweather Jr. make Juan Manuel Marquez miss on pay-per-view. The number is a massive success for boxing. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

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Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports reports in his latest MMA mailbag that while we're likely to hear numbers by Thursday, he's hearing very, very good things about the success of Mayweather-Marquez on pay-per-view:

The UFC is a privately owned company and does not have to release its pay-per-view sales, which it chooses not to do. Occasionally, we’re able to find out what a particular fight sold, but it’s not often. From what I’m hearing, though, the Mayweather fight had a convincing victory. I’m hearing the Mayweather-Marquez pay-per-view is going to come in at or near 1 million sales. I don’t have a verifiable figure for the UFC, but I believe it will be far lower than 1 million. The boxing number should be released by Thursday at the latest and perhaps on Wednesday.

This would be a huge success for Mayweather, for HBO, for boxing in general, and for everyone involved in this fight on any level. I really never expected they could get near this number, and I recall correctly off the top of my head, this would be the first non-Oscar de la Hoya fight to get to 1,000,000 buys in boxing since Lennox Lewis-Mike Tyson in 2002.

It's really amazing if the numbers are true. I expected this show and UFC 103 to split audiences a bit, and the UFC estimates I've heard are around 400,000 for their show, which is a great number considering there weren't any of the UFC's major stars on that card. It was just a good fight card.

I don't want to go into who "won," because if these numbers are accurate, the fact of the matter is everybody won. That's a WHOLE lot of people watching boxing and MMA on one night, especially considering how much they had to pay to do it.

This will also validate Floyd: If these numbers are true, you're damn right he's a superstar, and maybe we diehard fans blinded ourselves a bit by not being terribly excited about this matchup. The casual fan that digs Floyd probably didn't really even care who Juan Manuel Marquez was when this was signed, they were just happy that Floyd was back.

[DE100]

I was hoping for anything over 500k

[King Koopa]

We makin money, YEP
We ballin, YEP

[VipersThunder]

http://twitter.com/kevini



sounds like bull****.

No way, It wasn't that big and to many people stream it now. Bull****...

[Al Haymon]

Agreed

Also it shows that only having 3 PPV's a year by HBO that it creates more demand instead of the over-saturation of having 10 PPVs a year. More good fights on HBO like Pavlik/Williams,Margarito/Mosley,Klit/Arreola where a few years ago they would have been on PPV.

Very true.

And some of the fights that have been WCB main events, or BAD main events can even be undercards for boxing me and giga-events.

Normally, John-Juarez II is a lead Saturday night fight on its own.

[Al Haymon]

No way, It wasn't that big and to many people stream it now. Bull****...

Viper,

what's your forecast, champ? last chance....