Comments Thread For: Canelo-Golovkin Third in Ticket Sales in Boxing History ($27M)

[The Gambler1981]

That is awesome everything is looking good in that picture at the moment.

[angkag]

Thats wrong, their guarantee purses were, Canelo 5 mil and GGG 3 mil.

Yup, you're right, the higher guaranteed purses reported before the fight and widely reported on didn't end up as high. So the entire structure must have gone to more variable depending on sales etc.

[Butch.McRae]

42 milllion gate?


You have a link? Great numbers.


I think right now Canelo is the top boxing draw but Joshua has a lot more potential, guy could rule the Heavyweight division for 10 years and maybe become the richest athlete in the world.

The gate wasn't 42 million pounds. That's the total revenue

Just Google "Froch v. Groves live gate" and the first article has a income statement for a UK PPV event

[rrayvez]

Well GGG's guarantee was 3 million so will he end up getting more than he was supposedly offered as a flat fee is the question?

GGG's guarantee was 3 and Canelo's was 5. The fighters get 60% of the ppv money while Canelo will get a 60-40 split of that. That will be ggg around 20 and Canelo around 30. Way more than 10

[Bronx2245]

Where are the PPV numbers?

[Lou Cipher]

Manny Pacquiao's record of 4.6 million is officially unbreakable.

[filup79]

GGG's guarantee was 3 and Canelo's was 5. The fighters get 60% of the ppv money while Canelo will get a 60-40 split of that. That will be ggg around 20 and Canelo around 30. Way more than 10

Where do you get those numbers? If the fight did 1.5 mil buys at $80, that's 120 mil. HBO takes 10% of that and the cables providers take 50% of whats left after HBO's cut. So that's around 54 mil left. The fighters aren't going to split 54 million. Obviously GB is going to take a cut just as well as K2 to recoup the money spent on the promotion. GGG and Canelo will make a career high but it all depends if the PPV sold .

[Boxing42]

"Joshua is a bigger star than canelo tho"- haters

[Sp0rty Cr@ig]

Canelo is MexiCAN! Not Black you dope!!! Shouldnt you be sayjng if GGG was MexiCAN??

No because that poster only roots for Canelo because he hates seeing white boys winning. That goes for most the "Canelo fans" on here. And Im a Canelo fan!!

[Sp0rty Cr@ig]

Way over 1 mill Vs ChavezJr, 600k Vs Khan and 300k Vs Smith, a guy TOTALLY UNKNOWN TO THE US PUBLIC.

Not to mention, at the time, record breaking revenue from PPV buys him and Floyd did.

Nice try buddy.

Bro your numbers prove that GGG is a draw. Obviously Canelo is the A side but didnt Canelo-GGG sell way more than Canelo-Cotto?

GGG did more buys than ever before but so did Canelo (excluding Mayweather fight)

BOTH are draws even tho Canelo is the bigger draw. Your post made it seem like Canelo always sells this many PPVs which is not true