Comments Thread For: De La Hoya: Mayweather-Pacquiao Gets 3 Million Buys

[big_james10]

According to Golden Boy Promotions President Oscar De La Hoya, the upcoming fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao will break the existing record for pay-per-view purchases. De La Hoya's fight with Mayweather, from 2007, generated 2.4 million buys. Mayweather's 2013 clash with Saul "Canelo" Alvarez came close to breaking that record with 2.2 million buys.

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Everything that comes out of Oscar's mouth is either a repetition of something we already know or a lie.

[big_james10]

he also said Mayweather bought most of the tickets. no "manny" chants for this fight

Yes, sure. Mayweather is spending $20 million on tickets so that he can drown out Pacquaio supporters with his own.

If you believe this, I have a bridge that I want to sell you.

[Lords]

No way they get 3 million buys. If they dropped the price to 49.99 they would get 5 million.

[Brassangel]

No way they get 3 million buys. If they dropped the price to 49.99 they would get 5 million.

Great, except 3 million buys at $90 per ticket is $270 million.
5 million buys at $50 per ticket is just $250 million.

The increase in number of sales for a cheaper ticket won't be enough to justify dropping the price for a huge event. These people do this stuff for a living and are well aware of how to price it.

[Rolaz]

The camp of Mayweather jr., controls the tickets. So if Pacman wants to win, let him come out smoking from round one up to the end when one of them hits the canvass!

[Lords]

Great, except 3 million buys at $90 per ticket is $270 million.
5 million buys at $50 per ticket is just $250 million.

The increase in number of sales for a cheaper ticket won't be enough to justify dropping the price for a huge event. These people do this stuff for a living and are well aware of how to price it.

Did you not see my first sentence? There not getting 3 million at that high price. Drop it down and you will hit that $250 million.

[pacmanis1]

I regularly joke with people at work who they think will win whatever fight is coming up. 95% of the time they don't know what I'm talking about. Best case scenario they know the names Pacquiao or Mayweather but didn't know off the top of their head that they were fighting that weekend. I live in south Texas and even Canelo vs Mayweather wasn't like this. I don't know what to expect from this fight but under 2.7 would probably be considered a failure, which is funny. They have the world in their hands. I assume fight week will ramp up the promotion.

[QballLobo]

I could see it both ways.
On the one hand, illegal streams may cause people turned off by the price tag to go that route.
On the other hand they will get a ton of free press during fight week and many people will get caught up in the hype.

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To be honest I can see this fight doing nearer to 4 million over in USA. Been hyped up for years hence the lack of a press tour. People that don't know anything about Boxing that day will purchase the fight just to be part of the hype/history. Now include the casual American fans as well as dedicated Mexican and Pinoy/Asian community. Social media is (going to/has made) a different ball game with events of this magnitude.

[KickedOuttaGQ]

It would have done easily more than 3 mill in 2010.

Not any more...
Mayweather sells 800k now on average, Pac about 600k.

You do know that during 2010 we were in the middle of a recession. The economy is better now and people have a little more disposable income. Especially after Tax Season. It's a perfect time to have it.