Mayweather-Maidana does 854,000 PPV buys?

[Spoon23]

Floyd to showtime: 'Daylight robbery baby!'

[SlySlickSmooth]

You know what Pacquiao should do when his contract with TR is up?

****ing sign with Showtime. That leaves Floyd nowhere to hide.

Manny's fought on Showtime against Shane Mosley tho, does he exactly need a deal?

[ShoulderRoll]

You guys do know Rick Glaser is some 50 year old troll who lives with his mother and years ago worked with the Feds for that Top Rank raid. Take his info with a grain of salt. I can't even believe anyone would even quote anything he says. A few weeks ago he was passing out phone numbers of promoters like Lou DiBella on Twitter and nearly got arrested for extortion because he demanded money from them in order to stop.

Wow, that's interesting. Doesn't seem like a reliable source at all.

[FeFist]

With regards to Showtime making/losing money. It really depends on what their plans are. I think too many people in this thread are thinking short term, when they are most likely thinking long term.

It's probably their hope that they make a profit from Mayweather, but ultimately he is only going to be around for a couple more years so I doubt their long term plans are pinned on him. When they signed Mayweather, their intention was probably to established themselves as the scene for boxing.

To that end, I suspect that they're looking to make long term profit with guys like Canelo, Broner, Porter, Thurman, Garcia, Maidana, Matthysse and so on. They're fighters who will command less money, but fighters whose name value is increasing by being exposed to Mayweather.

I think their biggest threat is HBO swooping in once the fighters' improve their brand, like what happened with Andre Ward after the Showtime tournament.

[I Love Jesus!]

Floyd***39;s PPV only did 854,000! Showtime released nothing, now we know why! Spin King Stephen Espinoza into action as "Red Ink" is flowing!

— Rick Glaser (@RickGlaser1) May 11, 2014

@theboxingbrains @sweetboxing From within the walls of the GBP office on that number. On Pac-Bradley, was told to me by a party involved.

— Rick Glaser (@RickGlaser1) May 11, 2014

@rjgbass He***39;s not a bad draw, but the guarantee of 32 million means Floyd has to do over 1 million buys for Showtime to profit.

— Rick Glaser (@RickGlaser1) May 11, 2014

What does this mean for a potential September opponent? Will they leave it until November for a Khan fight?

hahaha what makes them think a khan fight would do any better, youd have to be a moron to pay to see that bum fight floyd

[radioraheem]

“No numbers yet,” Espinoza said to thesweetscience. “Cable hasn’t even reported yet. Any numbers floating are are pure speculation.”

http://www.thesweetscience.com/news/...er-ppv-numbers

[fish262]

After the Ghost fight did **** numbers they announced the Canleo fight which was the biggest fight at the time. Maybe they will go into damage control and announce another big fight but the only other big fight is Pac (not happening) so not sure what there plan will be.

I believe Khan will do better numbers then Marcus.

Also are showtime up or down on Floyd contract? I know the canelo fight they would of made a killing so i wonder what the numbers panned out over his next fights have to be for them to break even? Obviously it wouldnt be as high as a million anymore.

[Pacquiao'd]

Ok and Ariza and Mannys own trainer admit they ducked the fight over drug testing so are you going to boycott Manny aswell?

Larry, You know how they like to ignore facts.

[MaskedMurderer]

i think they can hype up the mexican americans into believing maidana can do it this time around

sell them the story of how floyd is on the decline and how maidana will do it this time around

got to play to them, they the only ones who really buy PPVs, if mexican didnt buy PPV this fight would have had 150k buys top.

[Chief2ndzOnly!]

Stopped at page one. Low numbers can be blamed on everybody who streamed the fight instead of buying it. The streaming has effected both Floyd and Manny.