Comments Thread For: Mayweather-Cotto Generates 1.5 Million Buys, $94 Million

[JibbaJabber]

Pacquiao-Marquez III did 1.45 million ppv buys. Mayweather-Cotto does 1.5 million. I still don't see how Mayweather can demand the lionshare against Pacquiao. 50/50 is still a fair deal.

At most, I guess Mayweather can demand a 52/48 ppv split. But, Pacquiao still does better than Mayweather at the gate AND foreign tv sales. So I still don't see how Floyd can expect Pacquiao to be happy with less than 50/50.

roids ppv are 60 and floyd's is 70.. floyd generates more revenue.. period. the ppv numbers dont mean ****.. it's the revenue that matters.

[MrRolltide91]

Their ppv numbers are similar in comparison (except against De La Hoya over 5 years ago). Even if 52/48 split in favor of Mayweather was a fair deal solely based on PPV, Pacquiao still outperforms Mayweather at the gate and in foreign television revenue.

This is why everyone (except Mayweather and his fans) believe 50/50 is still the fair deal. The sports media world wants the megafight to happen just as much as the fans. So if Floyd really deserved more than 50/50, every sports writer would be bashing Pacquiao and imploring him to take less based on the numbers. But, they're not writing that. Even African-American journalists believe Pacquiao deserves 50/50.

And the results of Pacquiao-Bradley won't change their minds either.

some people think it should be 50/50, 52/48 or 55/45.

people just want to see the fight happen, they could care less about the split as long its reasonbale.

[DeadLikeMe]

Their ppv numbers are similar in comparison (except against De La Hoya over 5 years ago). Even if 52/48 split in favor of Mayweather was a fair deal solely based on PPV, Pacquiao still outperforms Mayweather at the gate and in foreign television revenue.

This is why everyone (except Mayweather and his fans) believe 50/50 is still the fair deal. The sports media world wants the megafight to happen just as much as the fans. So if Floyd really deserved more than 50/50, every sports writer would be bashing Pacquiao and imploring him to take less based on the numbers. But, they're not writing that. Even African-American journalists believe Pacquiao deserves 50/50.

And the results of Pacquiao-Bradley won't change their minds either.

Is this another spoon alt?

[MrRolltide91]

Is this another spoon alt?

how many he got?

[spoonwars]

roids ppv are 60 and floyd's is 70.. floyd generates more revenue.. period. the ppv numbers dont mean ****.. it's the revenue that matters.

Does that justify Floyd keeping the entire PPV revenue if he fought (that's a big IF) Manny? It's the revenue that matters alright. That money train will crash after the Pacquiao wrench comes into play.

[badass316]

People who are actually trying to conjure up some kind of reasoning out of thin air about PBF deserving more than 50-50 have no intentions of seeing this fight. At all.

Both fighters are the two biggest names in boxing. Their drawing powers are comparable. One does not outsell the other by a huge margin, even if some people tend to believe otherwise.

50-50 split is the most reasonable option. 55-45 with the winner getting 55 is fine by me as well.

After considering the names on this card I thought it would do a little more, but not much more. Maybe 1.7ish considering Canelo's already big following.

[straightleft]

Pac should be the bigger draw according to the portrayal of him by his fans and the media. They go out of their way to make it known that in their eyes Pac has a bigger following and is more loved than Mayweather in his own country, and Worldwide for the person and boxer he is. So this should translate to being the bigger Draw, No?. Cant talk from both sides of your mouth.

Pac is the bigger draw of course. If you go by head counting of how many people watching Pacquiao fights vs Floyd fights not just the ppv buys. Pac will leave Floyd in a dust. It won't take a genius to figure that out. Floyd has a slight higher audience in US than Pac because he is an American but how about around the world like in Asia? Just imagine if you go by head count. Its not even debatable at all.

[spoonwars]

Pac is the bigger draw of course. If you go by head counting of how many people watching Pacquiao fights vs Floyd fights not just the ppv buys. Pac will leave Floyd in a dust. It won't take a genius to figure that out. Floyd has a slight higher audience in US than Pac because he is an American but how about around the world like in Asia? Just imagine if you go by head count. Its not even debatable at all.

Ouch... that Floydiot just buried his own grave.

[junior gong]

Not a bad shout that.

[Mr. Fantastic]

Floyd fans going crazy over another man's money.