Comments Thread For: Pacquiao-Margarito Brings 1.15 Million Pay-Per-View Buys

[bojangles1987]

Better than I thought. 1.4 sounded WAY too high to me.

[ThePrince]

So Margarito is no longer prime.. ok

No he wasn't. He was an old 32 and him being in the best shape of his life was just an illusion.

Now 38 year old Shane Mosley who had been inactive for 1 1/2 years and 37 year old blown up lightweight/career featherweight Marquez were 2 top notch prime, young fighters.

Get your facts straight.

[Franco2012]

What the hell are you talking about? Since when was Tony the most popular Mexican fighter? Clearly, it's Marquez... I don't even know how you can try to argue this.

And GBP expected 3-4 million buys for Mayweather-Mosley... so by your logic 1.4 million buys was an epic failure of disastrous proportions, right?

They said 4 million buys and they were wrong for 2.6 millions!

[Spacey1991]

Very good numbers, good for Boxing.

[DARKSEID]

Floyd is still the cash cow

[ThePrince]

Very good numbers, good for Boxing.

Really, that's all that needed to be said

But troll on trolls, troll on.

[paulf]

Many hardcore fans such as myself boycotted this fight. Glad to see it helped. I was hoping it would do under a million but I guess 24/7 is on the air for a reason.

It was a bull**** fight with a crap undercard.

[iNDOLiFER]

Floyd is still the cash cow

and he's still the best p4p ducker of all time.

[Horus]

Margarito was born in America, He is American.
(born on March 18, 1978 in Torrance, California)

People act Like America is one monolithic set of people who all think the same and look the same.

This is one of the most diverse places in the history of mankind.
Manny Pacquiao is not some new sight to behold in America

There are 307,006,550 million people in the U.S.A
Asian alone are 4.5% = 13.8 million
Filipino's Alone are 1.5% = 4 million

The Filipino American community is the second largest Asian American group in the United States. Filipino Americans are also the largest subgroup of Overseas Filipinos.


Meaning that Manny Pacquiao being filipino has nothing to do with him being a draw.

He has fought and done business in America for almost a decade now.
the guy is not Household name. But he has a big presence in large regions of America.

I would argue more People in America recognize Manny Pacquiao
over Andre Dirrell

I would argue more People in America recognize Manny Pacquiao
over Kelly Pavlik

I would argue more People in America recognize Manny Pacquiao
over Miiguel Cotto

I would argue more People in America recognize Manny Pacquiao
over Matt Huges

and the list goes on and on.


Manny Pacquiao is a top 3 draw in all of combat sports.

I would say him and Brock Lesner are tie or a toss up.

[Champman33]

Yawn..............