Bob Arum: We expect to exceed 1.3 million buys for Pacquiao-Margarito fight

[NSX-R]

Pacquiao against any current top Mexican will draw a million buys. It's asinine to believe that Pac-Margo will fail to beat Pac-Clottey.

[Pacquiao'd]

The only reason 1 million paid for the Mayweather fight is because he was retired for 2 years, people know this is a BS fight, they knew Clotttey would be BS but as the old saying goes fool me once shame on you, fool me twice......

1.1 mil with JMM then 1.4 mil with Shane. your excuse fails

700-800k for this **** fight

[MACAQUEINBLACK]

The only reason 1 million paid for the Mayweather fight is because he was retired for 2 years, people know this is a BS fight, they knew Clotttey would be BS but as the old saying goes fool me once shame on you, fool me twice......

The bold isn't true at all.


So "people" know Pac-Margarito is a BS fight, but "people" won't be able to see through Haye if he fights 'bums' for whatever few fights he has left?

Even allowing for nuances between the US and UK audiences, you're inconsistent.


This fight is not going to do less than Pac-Clottey. If it doesn't exceed 700,000 buys, that would be a surprise.

[The Gambler1981]

It will be interesting to see what it does, I really don't know how well it will do should do fine though.

[-Huey-]

How can anyone with half a brain say Pacquiao-Margarito will do less business than Pacquiao-Clottey? You can disagree with it doing 1.3 million because that is pretty optimistic, but NO WAY it does less than 700K, would be shocked if it did less than 900K. No matter what angle you look at it from, it makes absolutely no sense.

And 1 million people paid for B.S. and a noncompetitive fight when they bought Floyd-Marquez.

You ****** son of a b*tch!...JMM vs Floyd was waaaaaay more competitive than both Pac vs Clottey and Floyd vs Shane! JMM is a warrior, he wasn't there to lay down for Floyd, Clottey on the other hand, did 12 rounds of blocking.

[King Ju-Ju]

no way this cracks 1.3

[Check]

It's going to do over a million but I'm not sure it will go above 1.3 million. People seem to think that 1.25, 1.3, 1.4 million and so on buys are normal. In reality they aren't normal but it just seems normal because Manny and Floyd have become cross over sport stars. You see more talk outside of boxing about these two guys than you ever did with Oscar.

[bukakke]

I think the fight does the same as the clottley fight and possibly worse for a few reasons.

1-The economy is really bad right now and people aren't going to pay 50 to 60 dollars for a fight that isn't worth it.

2-There is a lot of competition that night with many college football games and a free UFC.

3-Margarito's last PPV did a terrible 13,500 buys. Why people think he brings a large fan base to the table is a mystery to me.

4-I feel no buzz for this fight and haven't seen any hype. If you check google trends you'll see its not connecting with the average person.

5-Zero media, I've seen nobody in the media talking about this fight.

[Alibata]

1.1 mil with JMM then 1.4 mil with Shane. your excuse fails

700-800k for this **** fight

Got to give it up to you sir, you are a true do or die, to the end, heart and soul, Mayweather warrior. Even when ish is stacked a mile high and evidence is piled up, you still won't abandon him... That is a true warrior fan right there. You even hate everything that offends your boy.

[Khalid X]

I have it going over a million, but how much more than that.....well I'm not too sure.