Mayweather-Maidana does 854,000 PPV buys?

[Big_L]

they can try to do a rematch. it might sell a little more but not enough to make up for their loses. there's only 3 guys floyd can fight that will do monster numbers. pacquiao, canelo and cotto. they will lose money on every other fight.

[deanrw]

I hope they lost money honestly. I really do. There should be no ppv events unless there are two mega stars fighting.

That is exactly what I said earlier. I hope they all lose money. Golden Boy, Arum etc.

So many fanboys on here keep trying to blame Floyd or Pac as to why they did not fight. The reason is they were both too spoiled by their promoters, who kept feeding them every fight as a PPV and making them huge money even for ordinary defenses. There was no huge money motivation for them to fight each other, as they were already making it.

The reason the big 4 fought each other, is because they would make 5-10X more to fight each other, then when they fought other non stars.

[QballLobo]

The build up to this fight was similar to the Guerrero one, in that, there was none. So can see why it did average.

Having said that, I'm not confident this figure is accurate and withhold my final judgement until further authoritive figures back this claim.

Not necessarily true. Showtime produced a seperate documentary for Floyd outside the all access show. They sent Guerrero on a media tour to try and hype him up for the hispanic fan base. Plus you had the intrigue of Floyd just coming out of jail and people thinking he would finally show his age. Despite what BS spin Shaefer put on it that fight did not do 1 million and this fight looks to have done worse numbers.

[typeone]

I'm just shocked that he is able to do these numbers it's just crazy... There better off watching WWF.. I would not pay for any PPV that has Mayweather involved in unless it's the Manny fight..

[Edmond Dantes]

Not necessarily true. Showtime produced a seperate documentary for Floyd outside the all access show. They sent Guerrero on a media tour to try and hype him up for the hispanic fan base. Plus you had the intrigue of Floyd just coming out of jail and people thinking he would finally show his age. Despite what BS spin Shaefer put on it that fight did not do 1 million and this fight looks to have done worse numbers.

Compare the promo of Maidana / Guerrero fights with Canelo.

There's a wide disparity in level of promotions for all three fights, with the Maidana / Guerrero fights nearing in similarity.

I think people will have a clearer idea of promotion for Mayweather's six time fight contract when September comes around. They'll be in full scale promo mode on a scale akin to Mayweather's fight with Canelo.

[pesticid]

I just hope people continue to stream fights until PPV numbers become so minimal that fighters will have to duke it out on cable TV for less money where the networks will demand better match-ups and boxing will thrive again. The fewer pay per view buys the better it is for the fans and the worse it is for the promoters and the fighters. It's also better for the cable tv

[mikinoki]

He traded honor for money and now that doesnt work out for him anymore.....pathetic

[mikinoki]

you know they gonna do like the guerero ppv and denie denie denie until people dont talk about it anymore

[Lullaby]

Seriously? Considering most people in the Uk watched the fight cause of Khan?

Horirble numbers was expecting more than 1 M.

[Boxing Goat]

It matters not. Showtimes backers have more money than they know what to do with. The advertisement and noteriety and showtime subscriptions have more than made up for the marginal losses a failed Mayweather fight may have incurred. Not to mention how the Canelo fight did way better than expected and more than made up for this pseudo 'flop'.