For $32M, Showtime cut put together 10 or 15 fights like Matthyse/Peterson

[Kagami Taiga]

I dunno but 32m is a massive guarantee for the likes of Guerrero, Devon, etc

lol, i dunno why anyone keeps on throwing out these random names. floyd is gonna bring in money. theres no doubt about that. the estimates of the money he brings in on one event are unrivaled in the whole sports world. i dunno who he is or is not gonna fight, granted, but his track record is proven at this point. hes a hot commodity and u may say ppl are turned off by how he fights, but when u see him listed on forbes or all over espn the magazine, its kinda hard to igonore him. the guy is an even all unto himself. ppl may hate it, but its the facts.

[HeroBando]

Im sre they know it better then me,but at 900k buys, I had Showtime taking home 7m.

I didn't see your breakdown, nor would I be qualified to judge it totally. But it's extra murky here since normally the network only gets a cut of the PPV, the promoter takes the rest (gate, international rights, etc) after the distributors get theirs. The promoter also has lots of expenses, including all purses. Here it's the network acting as promoter by making a huge guarantee. So does that mean they get all the promoter extras, gate etc? Not sure, GBP doesn't work for free either. But if you think of GBP and SHO as one and the same (not a stretch) then it's a different break even probably.

[HeroBando]

lol, i dunno why anyone keeps on throwing out these random names. floyd is gonna bring in money. theres no doubt about that. the estimates of the money he brings in on one event are unrivaled in the whole sports world. i dunno who he is or is not gonna fight, granted, but his track record is proven at this point. hes a hot commodity and u may say ppl are turned off by how he fights, but when u see him listed on forbes or all over espn the magazine, its kinda hard to igonore him. the guy is an even all unto himself. ppl may hate it, but its the facts.

Other than Canelo, who's out there that would justify that guarantee, that's realistic?

[al-Xander]

Isn't that crazy, for what it costs them to pay Mayweather ($32M), Showtime could instead put together 10 or 15 cards per year of the quality of Mattyhsse/Peterson.

If they were to pay $2M a piece to guys like, Matthyse, Petterson, Garcia, Broner, Rios, Khan, Alvarado, Provodnikov, Malignaggi, Alexander, Guerrero, Ortiz, Thurman, Abrgu to have sort of an unofficial tournament in a single year, don't you guys think that would be worth more than to have one Mayweather fight?

I think so.

Very good point. Fans will get to see more fights possibly every
weekend instead of having to wait for some superstar fighting
in mismatches.

[Phenom]

that 32M is not in showtime boxing budget Mayweathers pays for himself but Showtime did increase their boxing budget while HBO cut theirs

[daggum]

floyd mayweather kills boxing. it's now a fact.

[Roja's480]

The PPV buyers paid Mayweather's purse.

lol i almost punched the screen when Lovci kept repeating it and TS still didn't understand, and he probably still doesn't understand

[al-Xander]

floyd mayweather kills boxing. it's now a fact.

Pretty much.