Cotto/Martinez underperforms, does 350,000 buys

[PR ESQ.]

Not sure he has any other options. Either that or send Cotto to the enemy (Mayweather) or to die (Golovkin). If the Canelo bout can't be made then Miguel's in a bad spot.

Man *** GGG bring his ass on...

[-DSG-]

Should be a world championship boxing main event but not the way things are today.

yep canelo and cotto should not be on ppv unless its against each other last year was so great cause there were so many fights on hbo and sho.

[ea22]

the undercards have all ****** too for both boxing and mma people dont wanna pay 50-60 on ppv when there is only 1 fight you want to see on the card or maybe two. these promoters are trying to rip us off and fans are starting to reject these weak cards they are giving us.

Give this man a cigar! The UFC cards used to be stacked but since they started having 20 events a month their ppv cards have become weaker and consequently drawn a lot less buys. You combine a good main event with a solid undercard and you will get more ppv buys. I am not saying this will magically make boxing ppv cards draw great numbers but I am sure as hell it would help.

[Tyler_Durden]

Bob is spot on here:

"The numbers were not great," said Arum, who is rehabilitating in Los Angeles after having knee replacement surgery last week. "All the numbers boxing has been getting on pay-per-view have been terrible. It's not disappointing; it just is what it is. There are too many (pay-per-view cards).

"Pay-per-view was always designed, as was closed circuit back in the day, for true super fights, not just very good fights. There have been pay-per-views every month and people resent the fact that they're asked to pay extra for anything halfway decent. Boxing pay-per-view numbers are down. Look at the (recent) numbers for the (Floyd) Mayweather and (Manny) Pacquiao fights. The UFC pay-per-view numbers are also down."

Been saying this for a while now. This year has gone way overboard with the PPV. Many of them are Boxing after dark/Show Box calibre matches. I'm glad these cards are flopping. PPV should only be for real superfights.

That being said, Bob needs to lay off the morphine if he tries to push Pacquiao-Algieri after saying all that.

I agree, we can't be expected to pay for any halfway decent fight and now days they are acting as though everything is a superfight and to top it off the prices are a lot higher. I'm also glad that numbers have been down and I hope they get even lower so that they stop trying to rip everyone off and resort back to showing the fights on regular Showtime and HBO.

[IIocano]

WTF? Hahaha what's on my boxing scene ninjas..

[radioraheem]

Cotto won impessively.
Shut the traps of his haters.
Haters butthurt and crying daily.
Motha*** PPV #
The Win PRICELESS!!!!

[paulf]

Three or so years ago, Arum took his fighters to Showtime because HBO wanted Martinez-Cotto and he wouldn't give it to them, so they gave Martinez the date instead of Cotto. Now that both guys have lost their shine, he puts them against each other on PPV and is upset that it under-performed? Whatever.

PPV is bull****. I don't buy it, I don't support it. We already pay money monthly to see fights on HBO. If it costed $70 to see the Superbowl, the NFL would see a massive drop in popularity.

**** PPV. Don't but it, don't support it.

[ThatDude44]

Screw the numbers. The only under performance I saw was by Sergio.

[-DSG-]

Give this man a cigar! The UFC cards used to be stacked but since they started having 20 events a month their ppv cards have become weaker and consequently drawn a lot less buys. You combine a good main event with a solid undercard and you will get more ppv buys. I am not saying this will magically make boxing ppv cards draw great numbers but I am sure as hell it would help.

Yep that's the thing that hurts the ufc they have a ppv every month but know they only want to put a good main event with maybe one good undercard fight.

[-DSG-]

Three or so years ago, Arum took his fighters to Showtime because HBO wanted Martinez-Cotto and he wouldn't give it to them, so they gave Martinez the date instead of Cotto. Now that both guys have lost their shine, he puts them against each other on PPV and is upset that it under-performed? Whatever.

PPV is bull****. I don't buy it, I don't support it. We already pay money monthly to see fights on HBO. If it costed $70 to see the Superbowl, the NFL would see a massive drop in popularity.

**** PPV. Don't but it, don't support it.

The good thing with boxing is when there are so many ppv and the buys are underwhelming the next year we get less ppv and more good fights on regular hbo and sho.remember 08 when there was like a ppv every month then the next year only 3 fights were ppv everything was regular hbo and sho.