MARK MY WORDS: Cotto-Pacquiao does 838K PPV buys...+/-3%

[Al Haymon]

P.S.
I'm one of the white guys that you'd fear running into in a dark ally.

Are you Rush Limbaugh?

[Al Haymon]

That, I agree with. Bernard plays the bad guy, good, and I think he sort of likes it...I know I would, at least a little.

Stick,


But the point remains: Oscar did 900k-1.0 mil pretty consistently in all his biggest fights. And then he did 1.35 with Tito (that was a HUUUGE) fight.


A month out, Nostradamus tells me that he hasn't feltthe mainstream buzz that would indicate this fight starts to approach 1.5 mil.

YES. I do acknowledge that 24/7's have a positive impact on the nums.

[MACAQUEINBLACK]

Are you Rush Limbaugh?

[Stickman]

Stick,


But the point remains: Oscar did 900k-1.0 mil pretty consistently in all his biggest fights. And then he did 1.35 with Tito (that was a HUUUGE) fight.


A month out, Nostradamus tells me that he hasn't feltthe mainstream buzz that would indicate this fight starts to approach 1.5 mil.

YES. I do acknowledge that 24/7's have a positive impact on the nums.

I think the positive impact from the 24/7 series' are fairly limited to a specific group, and I'd be surprised if it increased the PPV buys by more than 7 to 10 percent, at most.

More realistically, I'd guess the increased PPV numbers generated from the 24/7's barely pays for the production costs, but that's just my guess.

I think the 750k to 1 million estimate is probably pretty close, though it could slightly top that. If it does, it won't be by much. Still great numbers, in my opinion.

[Al Haymon]

I think the 750k to 1 million estimate is probably pretty close, though it could slightly top that. If it does, it won't be by much. Still great numbers, in my opinion.

That is an educated perspective.

[Del Coqui]

When the angel battles with the pack
In the grand garden
Within a sea of lights
eight hundred and thirty eight thousand bear witness

- Nostradamus

Good work Al, but I believe they'll make better than that.

[El Angel]

Haha wow, good find Al.

[Kevin Jesus]

I think this will sell 800k because of Pacquiao.

There is no evidence that Cotto is a draw.

Cotto-Clottey(HBO WCB). Yes the viewers count, but what about Vitali-Arreola doing over 2Mill viewers? does that mean that a Klitschko HBO PPV would be successful? Nope.

Cotto-Margarito(HBO PPV) Numbers were never released by Top Rank/Bob Arum for obvious reasons. Rumors were that it sold 400k PPV's which is not bad..but that's also what Marquez-Pacquiao did at 130(a weight class that got little to no exposure). So it wasn't all that for a WW bout(hottest division at the time).

Cotto-Mosley(HBO PPV) 355k PPV's sold.

Pacquiao is the draw here. If the PPV is successful then Pacquiao should get a lot of credit.

[Al Haymon]

Cotto-Margarito(HBO PPV) Numbers were never released by Top Rank/Bob Arum for obvious reasons. Rumors were that it sold 400k PPV's which is not bad..but that's also what Marquez-Pacquiao did at 130(a weight class that got little to no exposure). So it wasn't all that for a WW bout(hottest division at the time).

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....not to mention that the arena was 40% empty. They only sold about 10,000 seats at a very affordable price.

[mrpain81]

Cotto/Margarito did 450-500k which is a very good number.

1.3 million

Instead of the Pac fans I will now have the Mayweather fans saying there's no way it's possible.