Comments Thread For: Pacquiao-Mosley Grabs at Least 1.2 Million PPV Buys

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

1.3 PPV buys is damn good considering Mosley is way past his prime. Good numbers for our sport.

That's why they picked Mosley.

Mosley is a name people know.

[fightnight1]

Well Said!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AllEyesOpen]

Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum advised the New York Times that last Saturday's fight between Manny Pacquiao and Shane Mosley, based on early projections, generated at least 1.2 million purchases on pay-per-view. Arum would not be surprised if the number exceeds into the realm of 1.4 or 1.5 million. The exact buyrate figure should be received by the end of the week, Arum told the paper. Pacquiao won a twelve round decision over Mosley at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

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I've heard this talk from Arum before, that number will go down when the offical ppv sales are released.

[RL_GMA]

High PPV sales sucks. Can't wait until pirated streams are quality and the PPV model folds. Then we'll see real growth in youth participation, and more hardcore fans...

There are quality streams lol (Tenchis).

But it's not as if there's going to be a revolution of fans simply streaming fights. It takes money to make money, and as long as there are promoters and Cab;e networks, there'll be PPV.

[RL_GMA]

These are good numbers though. I expected much less.

[MJ406]

fight doesn't live up to its hype... but a "boring/garbage" boxing match draws 16,000 in attendance and upside of 1-mil in PPV... i feel its more of a help for boxing than a disgrace... if ever someone should be disgraced, its shane... you got to give it to arum on how these numbers came up...

It might help the financial side of boxing. But short term all it tells me is Boxing can still trick the fans by making money with poor match making. Mosley obviously cashed out by taking this fight, it's just a shame so many people bought into it.

but if it is true, good for boxing, hope soon we can get a super fight not on ppv but free on national tv, does anyone know when was the last mega fight seen on free tv?

uh why would Arum bother with national TV, if he can get this many dummies to buy a PPV? Pay Per View exists in the first place because (in the case of boxing) it generates more revenue

Hey I'm all for seeing boxing on national TV. But from the promotional side of things if I can get enough fans to buy fights via PPV, why not stick with your bread and butter?

No freaking joke. If Pacquiao and Arum keep getting rewarded for these fights, then they'll keep fighting them.

^ speaks for itself.

[joelab75]

i was expecting less. around 900K because of Shane's last 2 fights. and *****s boycott the PPV. 1.2 million buys was more than what Arum would ask for. Pac is officially a PPV king.

[Twako]

pretty good numbers. but as a pacfan, the fight was bad. hope it didnt turn off ppl to buying future ppvs.

[switchsouthpaw]

Don't you notice a pattern here. Guys who are not deserving challengers are fighting like ****. Pac deserves criticism for fighting guys who he shouldn't be fighting.

Maybe he should have fought Sharmbe Mitchell, or Carlos Baldomir. Those guys were killers.

[go1nbanana]

I wonder how many casual boxing fans we lost because of this.

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