Arum- Pacquaio/Rios sold between 500,000-550,000

[tomhawq]

miles better than the guerrero floyd fight, which was held in vegas, stacked with mexican undercards on cinco de may worth millions of dollars, and heavily promoted.

as opposed to two fighters having both lost their last fights. arum still made astronomical sums of money.

the guerrero fight lost $12 million. at the rate showtime is going, it will go bankrupt in no time. floyd fights are too expensive to make. they need 1.5M ppv just to break even.

[WatchForTheHook]

miles better than the guerrero floyd fight, which was held in vegas, stacked with mexican undercards on cinco de may worth millions of dollars, and heavily promoted.

as opposed to two fighters having both lost their last fights. arum still made astronomical sums of money.

the guerrero fight lost $12 million. at the rate showtime is going, it will go bankrupt in no time. floyd fights are too expensive to make. they need 1.5M ppv just to break even.

Where is the Link from Cbs/Showtime saying the Lost 12 million???

Stop making **** up!!!!

And I keep telling you ppl not from this Country Showtime is owned by CBS...
CBS is the biggest television network in America..

CBS is worth 100's of billions Floyd money is Not showtime money its CBS money!!!!

CBS is basically playing Floyd to build showtime brand like HBo if not bigger than HBO!!!!

if floyd next fight does 500k its still a win for CBS..//as long as Floyd is Associated with them its a win!!

Since Floyd as been apart of CBS their Stock have been thru the roof...

I can post actual links of the Floyd CBS effect!!!

[-Kev-]

I said 600k, so about what I expected. Two fighters coming off a loss, Fighter B was not that good to begin with, weak undercard. Manny's next fight does more because he's coming off a win and his fans are under the impression that "he's back".

[BennyBlanco]

miles better than the guerrero floyd fight, which was held in vegas, stacked with mexican undercards on cinco de may worth millions of dollars, and heavily promoted.

as opposed to two fighters having both lost their last fights. arum still made astronomical sums of money.

the guerrero fight lost $12 million. at the rate showtime is going, it will go bankrupt in no time. floyd fights are too expensive to make. they need 1.5M ppv just to break even.

Welcome to the forum, Todd duBoef.

No one else would believe such garbage propaganda.

[BennyBlanco]

Manny made the kind of money he wanted. Taxes were about 7% or less. PPV sales are mere bonuses for HBO, which spent very little in this fight.

Unlike the Guerrero fight. It's a huge financial flop. We don't even know if they recovered in the Canelo fight which was heavily promoted and stacked with expensive undercards.

PPV sales are mere bonuses? HBO spent very little? You must missed the NY Times story that describe how HBO's production costs for Pacquiao-Rios were FOUR TIMES higher than usual.

And if you knew anything at all, you'd know that the network doesn't pay for the cost of advertising/promoting the event nor the cost of the undercard. In other words, Showtime didn't pay any marketing costs or undercard costs.

[big_james10]

I just broke the number down, 550k PPvs equals 33 Million Dollars. 50% of it goes to the Cable Providers so there is around 16.5 Million left in the pot, the gate was 8 Million Dollars. Mannys purse was 18 Million, Rios 4 Million.

Bob lost a lot of Money on this event and no wonder he is pushing for a Mayweather fight now so he can cash out Manny.

Bob didn't lose any money because he did not pay Pacquaio $18 million as he claimed.

[GoldenGloveLove]

That's about what I figured. They shouldn't have expected much more.

[big_james10]

How is 500k a flop?

The dude just got KTFO, his brand name went considerably down, and he was fighting Rios. A guy that wouldn't sell 20k in PPVs by himself.

You guys overreact way too much.

What you are trying to say is a huge flop for Mayweather is actually a huge success for Pacquaio. What logic!

[big_james10]

Floyd, undefeated, still has the allure of, "can this guy beat him?"

Manny just got KTFO, brand name tarnished, considerably. Fighting a guy that couldn't even sell 20k PPVs by himself.

You're smarter than a 5th grader.

It is good to see that a Pac fan finally admits that Pacquaio is not at the same level as Mayweather. By the way, how many PPVs do you think Robert Guerrerro would sell by himself?

[DeadLikeMe]

It is good to see that a Pac fan finally admits that Pacquaio is not at the same level as Mayweather. By the way, how many PPVs do you think Robert Guerrerro would sell by himself?

Less than that Morales PPV that sold 50k.