Comments Thread For: Sources: Mayweather-Mosley Does 1.2 Million PPV Buys?

[martin_1995]

He just beat an old fart whose lst fight was 15 months ago... let him fight Paul Williams. Don't think so ... nitramzaid@hotmail.com

[Da Hammer]

In this day and age of the digital era does it really take that long to count total PPV buys? i find it hard to believe it takes very long. of course we don't hear about them quickly because promoters like to fully exploit final numbers in there favor (Arum, GBP, Don King). So i assume these numbers are pretty much close to the final numbers and they are pretty good numbers! although a little disappointing though because they have been promoting this fight heavily basically since the SB. i'm curious in how many millions GBP spent on advertising... Anyways good numbers but could have been a lot better! Bright side though floyd can't ask for more than 50/50 so it will make a potential fight between him and pac a lot easier to make! well drug testing aside...

[Boxingholic]

Well Fights in Las Vegas and mostly sold to rich ass gamblers betting large money on the fight, which is why its held in a casino...the pac/clottey fight allowed the average joe to see the fight live which is something you cant do in Vegas....some tickets cost 50 bucks which is less then a PPV on tv, not a nose bleed seat which cost 1 K

Being from Las Vegas I know that most of those high price seats are "FREE", COMPS, to high rollers, celebs, business associates and hook ups from managements. I know some friends of mine even got the ring side seats for free!!!!!!!!!!!

[brick wall]

if those numbers are true HBO and GBP would just break even as they offered so much money for the fight purse...$30M i think with 75% going to floyd. pac-cotto fight purse i believe was $10M lower than that. HBO and GBP also spent a big amount to promote floyd-shane that's why shaeffer was expecting a bigger ppv number.

[Russian Crushin]

Being from Las Vegas I know that most of those high price seats are "FREE", COMPS, to high rollers, celebs, business associates and hook ups from managements. I know some friends of mine even got the ring side seats for free!!!!!!!!!!!

Yea beacuse they put in so much money into the casino....they arent jjust free to the average person, you stilll have to spend a ton of money to get seats

[The Tase]

best believe golden boy will juke the stats to increase the ppv count.

[Sweet Jesus]

best believe golden boy will juke the stats to increase the ppv count.

HBO releases the PPV numbers, not GBP.

[l3xxer]

for the boxing most advertised PPV its a failure... if this was true?

[krazyn8tive]

You know, as much as I hate Fraud(and maybe people starting to realize that now), it is a bad sign for boxing. Let's say Fraud does have some sort of attraction and marketability based on his outside the ring persona...he had a VERY good dance partner in Mosley. A very well name, and that alone should be enough to have done better buys than that. Think about this. Pacquiao-Mayweather comes and goes, THEN WHAT?! WTF is left in boxing? Sure there is young talent, but how long we need to wait for a new stars? MMA already got plenty and is easily grabbing everyone's attention. Boxing needs serious help quick!

Imma go ahead and BUMP this post because it's very important and nobody seemed to notice it. It's about as impartial as you can get considering the source. I'm not bashing either floyd fan or pacman fan. This post makes HUGE sense.

[Charlie Kelly]

I think I'll wait for an official count not some bs preliminary count that is pulling a number from who knows where...