Comments Thread For: HBO Blames Pacquiao-Rios PPV Buys on Location

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Manny Pacquiao's last fight on pay per view disappointed at the box office, coming in at around 475,000 buys, but HBO hopes for a much better result Saturday in the rematch with Tim Bradley. The main reason? This event is on American soil.

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[HanzGruber]

Guess hbo isn't letting arum go back to china

[Zano-24]

Arum "we will show them over there how to really make some money"... Yes Arum actually said this when promoting this fight for Rios vs Pacquioa.

He also said "Manny will NEVER fight in the United States EVER again".

[jasontreks]

Ppv

Maybe it had such a low number of buys because the public figured out it would be a mismatch, which is exactly what it turned out to be. People don't want to fork over $60 in a bad economy to watch a mismatch. They want a quality fight with a quality undercard.

[Shadow boxer 3]

i dont see how that played a role in PPV buys when the card was schedule so it would still begin at the normal U.S. times despite being oversees.

[Xi_]

it flopped because it was a piss poor match-up, even for someone coming off being ktfo.

[hitking]

BULL****!!! The Rios fight tanked for two reasons. First, it was a crappy mismatch that the hardcore boxing community didn't buy. Second, and most of all, Pac had lost a huge percentage of his "Pac's the man to beat Floyd" fanatics. With Bradley, the hardcore boxing community appears to be all-in. And with the dominant performance against Rios, his "Floyd haters" fanbase is once again slobbin' his knob. I expect tonight's show to at least double what the Rios fight did.

[hitking]

i dont see how that played a role in PPV buys when the card was schedule so it would still begin at the normal U.S. times despite being oversees.

What you said

[Joe Grizzley]

i dont see how that played a role in PPV buys when the card was schedule so it would still begin at the normal U.S. times despite being oversees.

I think your missing the point. Top Rank was hoping to tap into the Chinese market at 5 bucks a pop. Because it was in the morning or whatever, the Chinese were buying it. Could have been the time for the Chinese or it could have been the price. 5 bucks to the Chinese is a lot of bucks (about 40/usd).

I'm thinking it was the timing.

[AP♠]

It was a **** match up to begin with both fighters were coming off losses and on PPV? Pfff second the undercard was complete garbage. When HBO says something that's when you know they're squeezing Arum's nuts to meet the expectations no wonder he's been livid lately about the promotion. And Pac doesn't have the same PPV number mustard as he used to before he got ktfo.