Comments Thread For: Video: Mayweather Downs Khan, Requests Pacquiao!

[Pu·gi·list]

Where is the problem?

**edit***

No dude...no, no, no. How do you make 35m if you sell 900K? Just how??? You mean after they pay Mayweather, right?

900k leads to total revenue of about 59m
Take away the money paid to carriers and Showtime and that leaves with $28m for fighters and promoters. Add in $15m from gate and a few million from sponsorship, closed circuits, etc.

Total adds up to about $46m.
Subtract (32m for Floyd)
Subtract (3m for Maidana)
Subtract ($3.5m for Khan, Broner, etc undercard)

This leaves $7.5m remaining for everything else. Do these rough numbers seem right? I'm genuinely curious

[IMDAZED]

Wow Dazed, you can't be this dumb...

900k buys
$75 a pop

=

That is 67.5 million. Instantly before anyone, even the promoter gets a cut the cable companies take half

67.5 million
divided by 2 because cable's percentage

=

33,750,000

They didn't even get 35 million and that's assuming EVERY SINGLE buy was HD. That number could be even lower. Before I take in the gate or anything that's the number we have. Now, the casino could have given Floyd a site fee in which case the casino keeps the gate OR they didn't give Floyd a site fee and let him keep the gate money.

We then don't know how those numbers are divided amongst Showtime or Golden Boy, because Floyd has yet to promote his own fight. Either way by paying Floyd there's only about 2 million left over. We can get into all the other expenses but the fact of the matter is simple. If you put a fight on PPV and you break even after paying everyone's purse that's a flop.

Let's break this down.

First, booking a gain of even $1m on one card is excellent. I don't want to speak for Showtime but if I invest $40m in something and get back what I invested with a gain of $2m each quarter...I'm making a profit. But really I don't know what Showtime's expenses were so I don't know where they book gains. But I'm pretty sure between the PPV, the sponsors and the TV rights...they make plenty. I'm not sure where you get this ridiculous idea that they need to make some absurd amount in order to turn profit. They aren't spending an absurd amount so how does that make sense?

[IMDAZED]

guess who has to meet floyd's guarantee.

it's so simple.

1 mill ppv = $70 mill

$35 mill goes to cable companies. NOT SHOWTIME. the cable/sattv provider.

the remaining $35 mill is split between all the other parties.

floyd is guaranteed $30 plus mill right?

Yeah and they meet it every time. With enough left in the pie to pay everyone else. And make a few million themselves. So where are they losing? I think the problem is that you guys have some absurd # that you think Showtime should be making. It just doesn't work like that.

[-Kev-]

this ****** muther***er just said in the first 20 seconds of this video that Khan only did 4000 and holds NO weight!!!!

First of all dumbass...It wasnt on PPV Floyd and The bout drew an average of 762,000 households, peaking at 887,000 viewers. (researched by the Nielsen Media research)
http://www.boxingscene.com/hbo-sho-r...lecasts--85417

Didn't watch the vid but do you think he means 4,000 tickets? I doubt Floyd means 4,000 PPV's or viewers.

[Beater_of_ass]

No, I'm not. Let's begin with basic principles because this is getting ridiculous.

Tell me, before you profit or lose, what do you do?

I don't think you understand the principles of business lol... Showtime has to pay people before they can get their cut or they will be sued for not paying a contract. It's really Showtime gettting that 33 million I showed you, they then have expenses to pay.

Expense 1 - Floyd (32 million)
Expense 2 - Maidana (1.5)

And that's it they already used up all the PPV money, that's not good.

[Pretty Boy32]

Imdazed is owning these idiots

[IMDAZED]

I don't think you understand the principles of business lol... Showtime has to pay people before they can get their cut or they will be sued for not paying a contract. It's really Showtime gettting that 33 million I showed you, they then have expenses to pay.

Expense 1 - Floyd (32 million)
Expense 2 - Maidana (1.5)

And that's it they already used up all the PPV money, that's not good.

If that's all they're getting then yes. It's not.

[SterlingStained]

a lot of p@ctard fl 0m 0 violence going on lately....

[Left Hook Tua]

No, I'm not. Let's begin with basic principles because this is getting ridiculous.

Tell me, before you profit or lose, what do you do?

you're making it too complicated, bud.

you're confusing yourself.

there's a ppv revenue article on *************.com

it'll explain it better than i can.

i'm not saying showtime is losing money but i understand how it is possible off the surface.

[Left Hook Tua]

you're making it too complicated, bud.

you're confusing yourself.

there's a ppv revenue article on *************.com

it'll explain it better than i can.

i'm not saying showtime is losing money but i understand how it is possible off the surface.

b o x i n g i n s i d e r . com