Pacquiao announced he is retiring, will his final fight do more PPVs than Mayweather?

[b00g13man]

What difference does it make?

[big_james10]

Pacquaio's next fight with Terrence Crawford won't sell more PPV's than Floyd Mayweather's last PPV. However, Bob Arum will lie and claim it did. Fat Dan Rafael will give an exaggerated number from his knowledgeable sources (aka Bob Arum) and all the clowns on this site will brag about how Pacquaio sold more PPVs in his last fight than Mayweather.

[Jc8804]

Yes .

PAC vs Crawford is gonna be at least 800k

I think a lot of people that liked Floyd like and will back Crawford. I'm backing Crawford 100%.

I think TC stops pac .

Add Rios vs provodnikov
And Jesse hart on the undercard

[Bram]

If Crawford is the opponent, I don't think it does.

[Scipio2009]

Mayweather announced his final fight against Andre Berto and the weeks leading up to the fight he said he was retiring for good, it was his final fight. Nobody knows the real numbers, its anywhere from 200k to 500k, and the truth lies somewhere in the middle so im guessing 350-450k buys?

Manny Pacquiao just announced his retirement, he told Arum he will retire after April 9th, his last PPV will be in Las Vegas, either against Crawford, Khan, or Bradley or whoever else not mentioned.

Will his last PPV do better than Mayweather vs. Berto?

Me personally I think it does lower or around the same, Ill say it could be just a bit above Triple G's 150k, maybe 250k buys?

I think the Biggest PPV right now will be Canelo vs. Cotto, thats a given its Mexico vs. Puerto Rico. Cotto has good ppv numbers as well, and Canelo has a mexican fan base, that fight is going to do at least 1 million buys.

Haven't seen anywhere where the Mayweather number was said to be 200k PPV buys, and the top end of the range was well beyond 500k PPV buys (400k-650k were the numbers that I've seen, and I'm pretty sure I looked at all of the credible projectors); nice try though.

Pacquiao's options for his retirement fight are pretty clear: Pacquiao-Bradley 3, Pacquiao-Rios 2, or Pacquiao-Crawford (Marquez isn't going to fall into the judging trap of a fifth fight, and Bob Arum is never going to open up his books to an outside party; which eliminates Kell Brook [Matchroom Sports/Sky backing] and Amir Khan [Haymon letting him in on the aspects of the different revenues of a fight and him peeping game]).

Pacquiao-Crawford is an interesting "old lion vs new lion" fight, but do you honestly see the boxing audience getting excited about either of the other two fights, especially at a $65/$75 price point?

Not after getting route by Mayweather, blaming everything on a bum shoulder that he was hooping with, 3 months after the fight.

[hectari]

Why are guys bringing up Marquez? that fight will never happen he said he won't fight pac again.

[Jc8804]

If Crawford is the opponent, I don't think it does.

How?? Being honest here.

I think black boxing fans who supported floyd will tune in and hope pac gets beat up and stopped (Which I think will happen)

Hardcore fans will tune in. And Manny's fans hardcore and casual will tune in to see Manny's last hurrah. You know Bob will promote it that way.

I see 800k minimum and expect a great undercard of rios vs provodnikov and
Jesse heart stepping up a bit.

[soul_survivor]

No, I don't think Pacquiao v Crawford does more than 200k.

If Pacquiao fights Khan or Marquez or even Bradley (in the US this time) it definitely beats May's last PPV.

[-PBP-]

PPV model is dying. It will do 250-300k

[Spacey1991]

If he fights a guy that people have interest in seeing him against then yes. Floyd would of broke a million again had he fought a slightly intriguing opponent, nobody even mentioned Berto in the same sentence as Mayweather before it was rumored to happen. So if Pac fights Crawford for example, a fight people would actually like to see then it will do better numbers.