Dan Rafael: 800-900k buys for Mayweather-Maidana

[brick wall]

Oscar is hilarious.

Have the numbers come out on the Mayweather Maidana fight?

— Oscar De La Hoya (@OscarDeLaHoya) May 17, 2014

lol did he really tweet that? he's trolling his partners...or ex-partners?

[Check_hooks]

Showtime hasn't lost a dime because of Floyd. The only ones who believe that are people who are ****** enough (such as you) to think that Showtime is guaranteeing Mayweather's contract and paying him $32 million per fight.

I see 2 scenerios

1. SHO is giving a $32 mill guarantee. Floyd has to pay for all expenses and gets whatever is left over along with SHO

2. SHO is giving him less than what is reported. That means he is essentially paying himself his own money to make up the difference which is extremely childish and insecure thing to do.

If you have proof that SHO isn't paying him $32 million than post it, otherwise you're getting red barred for calling me ******

[Hougigo]

Good numbers, but very meh considering the purses

Not as much hype compared to the other fights, right on par with Guerrero card.

[radioraheem]

Do you have any clue who is providing the guarantees? I know before the Show deal Floyd was on his own in that regard. Haymon used his music industry contacts to raise the capital for Floyd fights in the past.

And how do you know this?

[radioraheem]

What an idiot. Expecting those numbers doesn't mean they make a loss if it doesn't reach them. Wasn't everyone saying the Guerrero fight needed 1 million to break even? You're are all guessing.

A lot of these pseudo-accountants have no idea what they are talking about man. Trying to suggest that if they don't do 1.5 million buys, they don't even break even. The nonsense that goes on here sometimes is just...

[_original_]

Very good numbers.

[Spoon23]

Every WW not named Pacquiao would have been a massive underdog. Mayweather sold 800,000+ against someone most people didn't think stood a chance. Then we have the fans of a fighter that was in a "competitive fight" on paper and sold less, coming in a thread saying the numbers are bad. WTF.

With a stacked undercard. And showtime executive saying 1.5million to break even.

Its plain common sense if you have any form of logic in you that Showtime lost money.

[jtommy]

SHO hired Floyd to make a profit and to bring in more viewers to SHO boxing. Floyd is losing them 10's of millions of dollars and has put himself in a negative limelight.

Those 10's of millions of dollars have to be taken out of their yearly boxing budget.

Is that simple enough for you?

He's a Floyd fan.... Your gonna have to draw stick figures for him to understand all this.

[Johnwoo8686]

That is STILL 100 to 200k more buys than the Pacquiao fight.

[SonOfCuba]

Imagine if the didn't have Broner and Khan in the undercard.