Comments Thread For: Mayweather-Maidana II Highest Selling PPV Event of 2014

[bigjavi973]

Lookin' ass! I wish I could see the look on your face when you first saw this article!

WTF are you talking about? I was actually hoping that there would be some real numbers to go by. I was disappointed.

[Kagami Taiga]

Almost all PPV figures are projected. The final number is not official, no. But the projections are as official as any other past PPV event.

Sigh...don't even waste your time, J.D.

[Build That Wall]

I don't believe this for a second. I still think it will come out to 750k-775k

[bigjavi973]

Now it's the media! You can't trust Yahoo, but you can trust Bob Arum? I know you are boiling right now! Ha Ha!

You can never trust yahoo. Thats common knowledge and sense. And when did I say I "trust" arum??? Boiling??? Get a life. Hop of my nuts for once.

[bigjavi973]

Sigh...don't even waste your time, J.D.

sigh... hop of my nuts.

[uniquehump]

No doubt the people who bought the fight wish they could get a refund from their cable providers after seeing that crappy fight card.

Not me, I loved the fight, but not the undercard. I like the occasional Rock'em Sock'em robot types of fights when you have two of those types of fighters in the ring, such as; a potential Rios vs. Provodnikov fight. But with a Mayweather fight, I don't like to see him at the 154 because he's slower and he is not able to use movement. The old Ali fights where he is moving and avoiding hits were great fights. When he was released from prison, about 4 years older and heavier, he wasn't using the same movement and had to stay in the pocket. That wasn't his strength and neither is Mayweather's.

I don't know why people (not saying you) wants Mayweather to just stay in the pocket when that's not playing to his strengths. When I see Provodnikov fight, I don't want to see him dancing around the ring...because that's not playing to his strengths.

Going back to the article, although I'm a Mayweather fan, didn't think that it'll do those numbers (Projected or not). Actually hoped that it did only 700,000 or less in order to force a Pac fight.

[al-Xander]

Almost all PPV figures are projected. The final number is not official, no. But the projections are as official as any other past PPV event.

Not true. Schaefer projected way above the real numbers on several occasions. I'm surprised you're saying this.

[Kneeguel Cotto]

Yes I can.

I did.

If we put them on the same scale = if we put it at the same price

There's no problem comparing:

X amount of buys * Price = Revenue

If you want to take into account inflation that's fine.

Nitpicking a quick calculation is ridiculous. I didn't even post it to prove anything, I just threw it out there because the price increase was about triple regular inflation.

It's still radically inaccurate. I'm not nitpicking, just stating WHY it's inaccurate. You're the one who is defensive about your clearly wrong calculation. People are going to quote your post and say "floyd really sold 1.2 mil, check out this very accurate calculation." I don't really care how wrong or unfounded it is.

[chico malo ali]

lets see what that rat bob arum does to belittle this successful mayweather ppv. pac vs algieri is going fail miserabley and bob is going to say it was the most successful of 2014 what a rat.

[Real Hero]

Bob Arum: Don't believe on those numbers! I had my sources!