Comments Thread For: Chavez-Martinez: 475K PPV Buys, $25 Million in Revenue

[2501]

To compare similar events....

Mayweather vs Judah, at the same arena, sold 400K PPV buys. That was over six years ago. Without the benefit of episodes of 24/7, or a holiday weekend. Or all the promotional support (Tecate rebates, etc).

Floyd-Zab had 15,000 attendance, while Chavez-Sergio sold 17,000.

What other fights have generated that buyrate in the past 3 years and out of how many PPVS?

[IMDAZED]

Excellent news and those are numbers the fighters can build on. They've established their names and are now, sales-wise, formidable name fighters. I see another mega fight in Martinez's future. At worst, a rematch against Chavez. At best, a finale against Mayweather.

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Very good numbers.

[heat27]

Great numbers

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To compare similar events....

Mayweather vs Judah, at the same arena, sold 400K PPV buys. That was over six years ago. Without the benefit of episodes of 24/7, or a holiday weekend. Or all the promotional support (Tecate rebates, etc).

Floyd-Zab had 15,000 attendance, while Chavez-Sergio sold 17,000.

You bring up a valid point but you need to look at a few factors here.

The economy was better at the time.
They are two non-English speaking fighters, as appose to two popular American fighters.
Canelo fought on Showtime on the same day.
Martinez-Chavez got huge ratings in Mexico and other Latin countries.

[IMDAZED]

You bring up a valid point but you need to look at a few factors here.

The economy was better at the time.
They are two non-English speaking fighters, as appose to two popular American fighters.
Canelo fought on Showtime on the same day.
Martinez-Chavez got huge ratings in Mexico and other Latin countries.

You may be right but the idea that two non-English speaking fighters somehow lessens a fight's popularity is ridiculous. The U.S.A. is filled with every race imaginable and Spanish is damn near spoken as much as English. And probably even more than what numbers show. Furthermore, that population increases by a lot when you're talking about hardcore and casual fans of boxing.

[B.U.R.N.E.R]

What other fights have generated that buyrate in the past 3 years and out of how many PPVS?

SMH at this Floyd Mayweatherish "one post a year" shyt 25. Whats been good bro this Burns.

[2501]

SMH at this Floyd Mayweatherish "one post a year" shyt 25. Whats been good bro this Burns.

Chillin my dude. I lurk more than anything now. A lot of the discussion here is wacker than Mitt Romney's campaign.

[2501]

You bring up a valid point but you need to look at a few factors here.

The economy was better at the time.
They are two non-English speaking fighters, as appose to two popular American fighters.
Canelo fought on Showtime on the same day.
Martinez-Chavez got huge ratings in Mexico and other Latin countries.

On top of that, Mayweather/Judah was in 2006 when Boxing's popularity wasn't as declined as it is now and also without a main competitor such as UFC. Still impressive considering that was pre DLH Mayweather.

But 475K+ is a great number for this fight. Even though the bulk of that can be attributed to Chavez, it exposed Martinez to a wider audience and hopefully, he can continue to carry that momentum.

[IMDAZED]

On top of that, Mayweather/Judah was in 2006 when Boxing's popularity wasn't as declined as it is now and also without a main competitor such as UFC. Still impressive considering that was pre DLH Mayweather.

But 475K+ is a great number for this fight. Even though the bulk of that can be attributed to Chavez, it exposed Martinez to a wider audience and hopefully, he can continue to carry that momentum.

Boxing's popularity has declined? Not at all. The irony is that boxing is always in the news as having declined. Nothing has changed from 2006 to now in terms of boxing's popularity--in fact, one could argue that there's been a slight uptick as UFC has faded some and fighters who were unknowns a couple years ago just reeled in 500K. And the superstars just did 1.5mil. Anybody do that in 2006? I don't think so.