PAC-Clottey 700K Buys

[Cash Cow]

Pacquiao-Clottey earns big PPV bucks

Manny Pacquiao's lopsided unanimous decision against Joshua Clottey generated 700,000 pay-per-view buys and $35.3 million in domestic television revenue, HBO PPV's Mark Taffet said Tuesday.

The pound-for-pound king routed Clottey to retain his welterweight title on March 13 in the first boxing event staged at Jerry Jones' $1.2 billion Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

Clottey, a native of Ghana living in New York, brought no significant fan base to the fight and was virtually unknown to the masses, so the figures are a credit to Pacquiao's popularity.

"We are extremely pleased with the pay-per-view performance of Pacquiao-Clottey. Fights like this traditionally do not exceed 400,000 buys," Taffet said. "It is a testament to the popularity of Pacquiao and the vitality of the sport, and it gives us great encouragement as we look toward the May 1 Mayweather-Mosley pay-per-view fight."

The breakdown for Pacquiao-Clottey was 350,000 buys from cable homes, 310,000 from satellite homes and 40,000 from telco homes.

Based on his pay-per-view history, Pacquiao, of the Philippines, has become a crossover star in the United States.

In 12 pay-per-view fights, he has generated 6.25 million buys and $320 million in revenue. The bulk of the total has come from his last four fights: Clottey, Miguel Cotto (1.2 million buys), Ricky Hatton (800,000 buys) and Oscar De La Hoya (1.25 million buys).


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wait so the HBO president said he expected the #1 P4P fighter & most exciting fighter in boxing....oh yeah the fighter of the decade to do between 500K-600k?.....lmao

[DLT]

I wrote this in another thread so I will just put it in here. I was actually 2 seperate post. Margarito and alot of guys have had headlines but they all put up sucky numbers. JMM in his very next fight will probably be on regular HBO or his PPV will do 150,000 and he only is getting that much because his name after Floyd.

With that being said, 2 things are a given now wether people want to admit it or not. 1 is that Floyd is the biggest star & money maker in the sport. Pac fans cant seriously argue against that. You just cant. The 2nd thing though is that 700,000 against an unknown name is beast stuff that wouldve never happened a couple of years ago so it shows you how big Pac is and how far the sport has come. Floyd & Pac wouldve given anything a few years ago to get 500,000 and now they will feel like bums if they get that. Thats great for boxing. **** UFC

[adobostreak]

wait so the HBO president said he expected the #1 P4P fighter & most exciting fighter in boxing....oh yeah the fighter of the decade to do between 500K-600k?.....lmao

yea, he said exciting.

not sell the most PPV's and have all the viewers regret buying it later

[wazaa.]

As expected. RIP Mayweather-Pacquiao.

[project xxx1]

well done manny very impressive

[Pacquiao'd]

700k buys from 1.25 with cotto is pure fail and weaksauce.
FLoyd is the undisputed cashcow

[Dehydrator]

Can't believe that many people wasted their money. Arum is very happy

We watched the fight not because of Arum, we just want to see Pacquiao fighting a legitimate and a prime welterweight.

[Pacquiao'd]

This is the thing that the *******s will never understand. Floyd will always sell more than Manny because he is a bigger star in the U.S. He has had more exposure in the U.S. The only thing holding Manny back is that he's not American and his fluency in English is leaves a lot to be desired.

Floyd = Bigger U.S. boxing star
Manny = Bigger WORLDWIDE boxing star

In the end, it's the North American PPV buys that count the most.

the world isnt supporting pac more than may. may wins PPV, floyd has a biggger army than pac

[Cash Cow]

yea, he said exciting.

not sell the most PPV's and have all the viewers regret buying it later

why doesnt the most exciting fighter in the sport sell more PPV's than the biggest ducker and most boring?

[Pacquiao'd]

We watched the fight not because of Arum, we just want to see Pacquiao fighting a legitimate and a prime welterweight.

a WW that lost in his previous fight. blah blah blah