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

[big_james10]

THis fight was a global event the 1.25 is just the united states alone. with UK, Europe and Asia this fight easily did ove 2 million PPV. I personally think it did better than 1.25 just Arum will not realease those numbers because he wants to line his own pockets... The greedy ****!

You are full of ****. If there were even 1000 more PPVs than reported by HBO, Arum would be shouting it from the rafters. Most other countries didn't show this fight on PPV. I think it was on free tv in the Phillipines.

[Left Hook Tua]

In both or Marquez fights with Manny, he never did over 450k. In fact his two fights with Manny combined do not equal Marquez vs Mayweather.

Explain

what is the highest selling fight ever at 135 or under?

what was the highest selling fight ever at 140 and under before pacquiao-hatton?

answer?

pacquiao-marquez 2

btw 1st pac-jmm fight was not on ppv. 2nd pac-jmm fight did about 400-450k i think.


they held mayweather-marquez the weekend of the mexican independence day. to say marquez didn't play a part in that is just plain silly.

the crowd who watched it live was predominantly mexican-americans except for the rapper and celebrities ringside.

[big_james10]

i expected more

Everyone expected more since Pac has been promoted as the greatest thing in boxing since Sugar Ray Robinson. But the numbers don't like. Cotto drew 500,000 against Margarito, so he is a good draw on PPV himself. Obviously, this proves that Pac is nowhere near as big of a draw as his inner circle and the haters on this site think he is.

I can't wait to see Mayweather knock his ass out!!!

[big_james10]

He better. Even though i am a bigger Floyd fan, Floyd has to understand that Manny is the attraction. Who do most people wan't to see, a guy that plays it safe or somebody who comes in to take your head off. I'd understand Floyd wanting more before Manny fought Cotto but now, Manny SHOULD definately get more money. I mean he beat ( DECISIVELY ) the guy that Floyd didn't wan't to face.

How can you say with a straight face that Manny is the attraction when you look at these numbers and factor in the fact that Cotto was responsible for 400 to 500,000 of those buys (Cotto/Margarito , 500,000 PPVs). And it may be proven if Mayweather/Pac cannot be made. ayweather can fight Mosley and beat these numbers and prove who the real attraction is.

Everyone from Pac's promoter to the announcers on HBO to the haters on this site thought this fight would do between 1.5 and 2 million PPVs and at least beat ODLH/Trinidad, which took place in 1999 when satellite and the internet were not big factors in boxing. It did 200,000 more than Mayweather's fight against Marquez. Pac is the attraction on this site, but obviously not on PPV.

[ELPacman]

Lol @ 2 foreign fighters making more than Floyd. At first it was Marquez had all of Mexico behind him. Now it's that it was all Floyd and nobody paid to watch Marquez. Wow this guy gets better and better everytime. I can't wait for Pacquiao to get rid of him once and for all. To officially save boxing from that fraud.

[MOREBASS]

How can you say with a straight face that Manny is the attraction when you look at these numbers and factor in the fact that Cotto was responsible for 400 to 500,000 of those buys (Cotto/Margarito , 500,000 PPVs).

Everyone from Pac's promoter to the announcers on HBO to the haters on this site thought this fight would do between 1.5 and 2 million PPVs and at least beat ODLH/Trinidad, which took place in 1999 when satellite and the internet were not big factors in boxing. It did 200,000 more than Mayweather's fight against Marquez. Pac is the attraction on this site, but obviously not on PPV.

Can you tell us who played the A-side to this years best selling boxing PPV?



That's a rhetorical question. But yeah...go ahead and answer it anyways.

[big_james10]

LOL. HBO spent $10M to prop up Numero Uno while spending considerably less for Firepower. Do the math.

Are you dumb or just from another planet. Mayweather/JMM made $14 million between them in guaranteed money. Cotto/Pac made $20 million in guaranteed money. Who the hell was HBO propping up?

[big_james10]

Can you tell us who played the A-side to this years best selling boxing PPV?



That's a rhetorical question. But yeah...go ahead and answer it anyways.

What does that have to do with this fight being projected to sell 1.5 to 2 million PPVs?

That is not a rhetorical question, so please go ahead and answer it.

[big_james10]

dont see how he could rightfully demand more than 50% if you're as hot as your last fight and Pac just proved more people would pay to see him fight than to see Floyd box.

Seriously, if you were a casual fan and you saw both Floyd's and Pac's last fights? Who would you pay to see next? Answer honestly.

More people would paid to see Pac fight Cotto than who paid to see Mayweather fight Marquez. That is comparing apples to oranges and doesn't make sense. To answer your question, there were more casual fans paying to see Mayweather/Oscar and Mayweather/Hatton than there were watching to see Pacquaio fighting those guys.

[Kevin Jesus]

Merely 150k more than Number One-Numero Uno. Not what I expected, but still calls for a 50-50 split.