Cotto/Martinez underperforms, does 350,000 buys

[mrpain81]

90 percent of the people don't want to see the undercard and don't care about it,"

- Arum recently told Yahoo's Kevin Iole.

"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.

Arum said that Cotto would likely return in December -- again on HBO PPV -- at Madison Square Garden.

"We're thinking about the possibility of making Cotto and (Timothy) Bradley," Arum said.

Bradley vs. Cotto with a garbage under card, I'm sure that's going to set the world on fire.

Cotto made out like a bandit, wasn't he guaranteed $10 million?

[Bullrush]

"IM AYE SIDE BECOS I SELL TICKITS"

[El Chicano]

I was expecting ~600K for this fight, but 350 isn't bad. I think Canelo vs Lara will pull ~500k

Man, Canelo vs Lara will be lucky to pull 250K. Nobody knows who Lara is, and those that do would never pay extra money to watch that dude fight. He's boring and does a lot of running. Canelo is the A side, but he doesn't speak English and he's fighting a virtual unknown in Lara. This fight will not do good numbers. This is an HBO caliber fight. Canelo will do BIG numbers around the Mexican holidays against top PPV level fighters.

[bojangles1987]

Huh. That's surprising. I guess people weren't so hot on the fight, I can understand why but I still thought it'd do better than that.

[-PBP-]

Good. Way to stand up for once boxing fans. This is too many ppvs and the undercard was an insult.

[Mike D]

As long as both networks keep pumping out watered down PPVs, the numbers will just continue to plummet.

[strykr619]

I think 350k is bad. Considering who was fighting. And considering Chavez Jr vs Martinez had almost double that.

Mexican fan base is always good for PPV, lets face it Martinez is not that popular.

[strykr619]

good.

these promoters are going out of control with all the ppvs recently.

not everybody is ppv worthy. you have to have at least one superstar in the sport for a ppv fight.

cotto is a star but he's not a superstar. it didnt help that sergio was off for so long either.

If Cotto was Mexican that fight would have done 650k easy .....

[New England]

careful, a bunch of cotto fanatics are going to be jumping out of tall buildings after hearing this.


cotto - canelo gonna do 2 million in ppv doe.

idiots.

[Evol]

way below what i had expected but i think this goes to show us that unless u're floyd or manny, u aint cracking 1mil just like that. and people were trashing floyd's and pac's last ppv #'s when it was below average. shiiet aint easy.