Pacquiao-Cotto Generates 1.25 Million Pay-Per-View Buys

[lopez36]

marquez didn't bring anythin?? is floyd on something like his dad??...marquez had all the mexican fans behind him,the ones that buy 35% of ppv(according to luid de cubas)....mayweather has had help in his ppv.we all know what oscar does,hatton brought thousands of fans with him,and marquez helped him too....would floyd do the same against cory spinks? winky wright?...no

[PAKYO]

Say Cotto vs. Pacquiao did 1.6M, 50/50 is legit.

Damn dude, and i thought you a rational person.

I'm a bit disappointed...

[Jiddu Dali]

Mayweather on Marquez's drawing power compared to Mosley's with ESPN's Brian Kenny: He got a whole country behind him! A country!

Mayweather, post-Firepower: I didn't have a dance partner.


Forget Pacquiao, Floyd should consider entering politics.

Yea thats some bull****....

[COACH WEBB]

Gonna disagree but w/e.

pull was a cool poster..but he is on a lil "tit for tat" mission with "*****s"...kinda sad to see him fall so low as a poster. but as you said, w/e

[Doctor_Tenma]

pull was a cool poster..but he is on a lil "tit for tat" mission with "*****s"...kinda sad to see him fall so low as a poster. but as you said, w/e

Yeah, I try my best to ignore him.

[Killa_Kali]

both were promoted via the same old hbo blueprint. the differences were in the way that they were billed. cotto v pacquiao was billed as the fight of year, two stars going head to head in a war, the protagonist moving up in weight to conquer his biggest foe yet. mayweather v marquez was more like "the return of mayweather"; marquez was but a subplot.

and even so, more interest was shown in mayweather v marquez from third party companies. which more or less reinforces my assertion that mayweather is the bigger draw. he has what pacquiao lacks in the promotional field: a personality, and will thus always garner more interest unless pacquiao goes and beats him or something.

it was the fight of the year. the most lucrative one-night event in the U.S. this year. it made the top 10 of best-selling pay-per-view boxing events off all time, the fourth-best vegas box office crowd. with the recession and all, i say it was a success.

does floyd have the high ground to ask for more than 50%? his stans say he has.

but those are his stans.

boxing media says pac is a legit box-office hit.

[-Boxzilla-]

JMM's last PPV was in 2008 vs Pac and it barely did 400K...after that his 2 fights were on HBO.....yeah he is a PPV fighter on his own

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the jmm gpp ppv with casa only did 100k buys ... jmm is my fav fighter but he doesnt have a big drawing power imo ... and i do think cotto has a significantly bigger profile ...

[PAKYO]

pull was a cool poster..but he is on a lil "tit for tat" mission with "*****s"...kinda sad to see him fall so low as a poster. but as you said, w/e

You're a closet ***** as well....

[GTR]

Floyd said Cotto wasn't a draw. He chose JMM over Cotto because Cotto was from a "tiny island" and didn't bring anything up to the table.

Manny Pacquiao just did 1.25 MILLION with who Floyd said no body knew.

lol exactly. Floyd shoulda fought him but no, he ducked cotto and went straight for JMM. And now he claims JMM is not draw. 90% of the mexicans bought the PPV just to see him.

[Doctor_Tenma]

Damn dude, and i thought you a rational person.

I'm a bit disappointed...

You should have seen what most expected from Numero Uno, about 400-600K. I expected 600K because the match up wasn't seen as competitive. Instead everyone was surprised by 1.1M. I said Fire Power will do 1.2Mill+ and I made a thread on it, I expected that from the more competitive match up.