Pac vs Algeri did just above 300K buys??

[MrRolltide91]

Yes he did BUT "Manny never claimed to be the greatest fighter to ever lace up gloves", either. Did he? Floyd's arrogance makes one point out small details like that. It underlines his insecurity as a fighter and man. That's why I pointed that out. It is standard practice ONLY if you do not claim to be the greatest ever. If you really believe you're the greatest, why do you need one?

its not like robberies don't happen in boxing

[Lullaby]

Pac should fight a big name next, period.

[Heavyfist]

I guarantee you Arum did not expect this to do well and that having the fight in Macau in some way recuperated those losses for him.

Bob Arum doesn't expect good numbers from Pacquiao/Algieri. He's smarter than that.

Instead of paying over 50% in tax revenues by fighting in the US, and paying a killing to market the fight, you can get Chinese subsidies in Macau.

Pac makes money from a bunch of places, especially Asia.

[Mike D]

In the neighborhood of 300K is what I was thinking back when they announced the fight. The Rios fight did pretty poor and no way was this going to even match that. At least in the Rios fight you had the intrigue about how Manny was going to respond to the brutal knockout, and on top of that you had a villain personality in Rios.

This fight was trashed from day one (and rightfully so)...no way it was going to do well with a full price PPV price tag.

It should have been a half price PPV, or even better yet, just a regular HBO subscription fight.

[hhs661]

I'm actually impressed that 300k homes purchased this exhibition

[arraamis]

Since the historical pattern dictates an upward revision .... the fight only did +/-200K.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Is anyone shocked?...


It was an uninteresting fight vs a guy with virtually no name recognition


Manny and Floyd both have run out of marquee opponents..

They have already fought
Oscar
Cotto
Hatton
Shane
Marquez

Those were the money guys,,, guys capable of headlining PPVs without floyd or manny

Now your stuck with guys that would never headline a PPv wothout Floyd or manny.. ie Ortiz, algieri, rios, Bradley, ghost... Good fighters but not major draws

[ShoulderRoll]

Remember when posters used to say that Arum would never let Pac fight Floyd until he had milked Manny for all he was worth?

Those posters appear to have been right.

We're seeing Pacquiao's earnings dwindle and only now is Top Rank finally making an all out push to get Mayweather.

[DeadLikeMe]

Remember when posters used to say that Arum would never let Pac fight Floyd until he had milked Manny for all he was worth?

Those posters appear to have been right.

We're seeing Pacquiao's earnings dwindle and only now is Top Rank finally making an all out push to get Mayweather.

Manny brought in forensic accountants and his "advisors" had him fire them. If that wasn't enough of a wakeup call, nothing will be.

[Build That Wall]

Thats better than Cotto vs Martinez. LOL.