Comments Thread For: Mayweather-McGregor is Trending To Break PPV Record

[MC Hammer]

If it is the highest grossing fight it just goes to show how far talking sheet will get you

Mcgreggor never had a chance but talked a biggun

Casuals are hardy talking about ggg Nelo

Worrying times for boxing ahead

Well if a formula for success has been found (talking sheet) then you should be optimistic about boxing in the future; it will always be a success as long as it has characters to excite the fans. Being the best has never mattered in combat sports its always been entertainment and personalities make for anticipation and entertainment in fights. Boxing needs more personalities, not just Floyd knock offs, but people that fans can get around for various reasons. If boxing finds those it will be fine

[Pigeons]

Seems like mid 4s is the maximum possible any fight can do on PPV. The hype can't get bigger than it got for MayPac and MayMac.

[Pigeons]

if it did 6 then wow. more people from around the world watched this fight though imo.

That's just the US number.

[Eff Pandas]

Regardless of what this fight ultimately sold I suspect the lesson that should be learned, but knowing boxing probably won't be, is that marination is hurting business. This fight came straight outta nowhere to being a real thing to doing amazing PPV numbers. I thought the MayPac fight killed it at 4M+, but the reality is if that fight had happened when it was hotter it'd probably have done a mill or two or three more than it actually ended up doing years late on its best buy date.

[boxingitis]

Who cares about talking. Casuals fans ate it if it's true that they broke the PPV record. There must of been a lot of Irish or white ppl buying this PPV.

[Xi_]

This is a great number.....makes the people claiming it would only do 2.5 or less look like idiots.

[future hendrixx]

thats crazy. its gonna break a record that took floyd and manny 7 years of hype to create. what this shows is conors massive star power.

[-Kev-]

****ing Dana lied again lol. This dude is a pathological liar.

His lie was so big, it was like one of those rappers punchlines that are meant to be an exaggeration on purpose. Like for example a rapper being so rich he can buy a spaceship. This is the equivalent of what Dana White said with his 6.5 million PPV buys.

Like come one dude, this is boxing, not UFC, you can't make up numbers in boxing, there's too many people who can get the real numbers. He pretty much dampened the real number's greatness. Even being on the same level as May-Pac PPV is amazing.

[Scipio2009]

Regardless of what this fight ultimately sold I suspect the lesson that should be learned, but knowing boxing probably won't be, is that marination is hurting business. This fight came straight outta nowhere to being a real thing to doing amazing PPV numbers. I thought the MayPac fight killed it at 4M+, but the reality is if that fight had happened when it was hotter it'd probably have done a mill or two or three more than it actually ended up doing years late on its best buy date.

The "short marination" worked because both fighters had universal name ID in their sports, were compelling personalities...

[Eff Pandas]

The "short marination" worked because both fighters had universal name ID in their sports, were compelling personalities...

So did Manny & Floyd in 2009/2010.

And guys would have universal name ID in boxing quicker if they fought the fights instead of fighting "feature" fights vs guys no one cared about them fighting & who had no chance to beat them for 2 years to "marinate" the "big fight".

Sometimes you gotta get paid on the rematch when both guys get their name off of the first fight.