What was the first ppv you saw,,

[El Angel]

Trinidad vs Mayorga. Didn't know anything about boxing and I remember Mayorga sticking his chin thinking it was so cool. Now I know how dumb that was haha.

[loui_ludwig]

me im 17 (says 21 on my profile) my first ppv was cotto/margarito 1 it was epic and thats what got me into boxing!,,, (ima newbie but with youtube i had some time to catch up and watch the greats and i caught up on "most" of the greats idk everthing) i love boxing,,, when im free and i have little spare time i always find my self on boxingscene -_- lol addictin i know,,,


what was your guys 1st ppv?

Cotto-Margarito fight was on regular HBO, the rematch was ppv.

[-DSG-]

Ohhhhhhh man, back in the late 90s.


Tyson-Holyfield II, the ear incident.

me too!!!!!!

[-DSG-]

Cotto-Margarito fight was on regular HBO, the rematch was ppv.

no first fight was ppv homie

[sweetpea87]

De La Hoya/Mayweather. Not only was it the first PPV I saw but the first fight I saw live on TV as well. Be a huge boxing fan ever since.

[loui_ludwig]

no first fight was ppv homie

Really? I saw it on HBO but don't remember paying for it.

[3L MatAt@N]

Tyson vs Holyfield 1, I was seven years old and I remember my family had a party and a lot of people over. There was a lot of beer and yelling...

[chiguy91]

barrera vs hamed. i was like 9 or 10, still remember parts of the fight though.

[-DSG-]

Really? I saw it on HBO but don't remember paying for it.

yep
The numbers are not official yet, but everyone associated with last week's tremendous Antonio Margarito-Miguel Cotto welterweight championship fight expects the pay-per-view numbers to be excellent.

Top Rank promoter Bob Arum and HBO PPV haven't released official sales totals yet because the final tally is not in yet, but both believed it would do better than initially anticipated.

Arum, who said he needed around 225,000 buys to break even, was virtually walking on air the other day when we spoke about the performance of the pay-per-view.

"As bullish as we were on the how the numbers would be during the week of the fight, it pales in comparison to how well it looks like it will do," Arum told me. "So far, I am extremely pleased. You really don't know for sure yet, but certainly it would not be beyond the realm of reasonable possibility we break 500,000. But we will certainly be well over 400,000."

Even before the fight, it was tracking well ahead of last November's Cotto-Shane Mosley fight, which did about 350,000 buys.

Margarito stopped Cotto in the 11th round of the all-action fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The success of the event means Cotto and Margarito will each receive substantial additional money beyond their guaranteed purses because both had an upside on the pay-per-view, meaning that once it reaches a certain number of sales they will receive a certain dollar figure for every buy above the threshold.

If Cotto-Margarito settles at about 450,000 or so buys, it figures to wind up as the third- or fourth-best boxing pay-per-view of the year.

The Jan. 19 Roy Jones-Felix Trinidad HBO PPV card generated more than 500,000 buys. The Nov. 8 Joe Calzaghe-Jones fight figures to be in the same ballpark as Cotto-Margarito. Oscar De La Hoya's planned Dec. 6 career finale, be it against Manny Pacquiao or anyone else, will probably do more than 1 million.

Arum was particularly pleased by the performance of Cotto-Margarito in the Hispanic marketplace, which has regularly supported pay-per-view fights with Latin stars.

"In particular, in the areas of high Hispanic concentration, we kicked a--," Arum said. "We doubled Cotto-Mosley in those areas."

It was only Cotto's third headline appearance in a major pay-per-view card and Margarito's first, although both had headlined smaller shows.

[RespekonMyName]

Bowe-Holyfield 2 when I was 6. My grandmama was a huge fight fan, so she ordered every big ppv. She hated George Foreman for some reason. lol