Comments Thread For: Pacquiao-Broner Produces $6 Million Gate, 11,410 Tickets Sold

[marikudo]

That's still not bad for a guy who's passed him prime and fighting a B level guy who never headlined a ppv event before.

Woh! A past his prime fighter who earns more than any welterweight fighter at the moment.

[Combat Talk Radio]

I hope he retires soon and be remembered as a great fighter who never ducked anyone else besides the Horn rematch.

Fixed, and I agree.

[marikudo]

Uh, dude he's still selling 400k PPV's and beating younger guys in the mecca of boxing (Las Vegas) at 40 years old. He's not fighting in small casinos for scraps. He just made $20 million plus. What's there to feel sorry about? Sure he's not in his heyday, but when has a heyday been permanent?

I agree. Pacquiao is still the highest paid fighter in the lower weight divisions. No one comes close.

[marikudo]

Fixed, and I agree.

Good fix. Carry on!

[OCPancho]

Wrong, it generated roughly 36 million, after the satellite companies get paid, and other overhead related items, Manny gets a lion share type cut, it's at LEAST 7 or 8 million.

400K buys gets $36M net ?

[Beercules]

Manny "Money" Pacquiao

[AboveTheBelt]

Pacquiao 3rd in live gate, next to Mayw & Canelo

Quote, "While his ability to move a PPV event remains intact, producing a booming live gate remains another story. Pacquiao remains third only (13,000+) to Mayweather and Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez among athletes to produce the biggest live gates in Las Vegas both this decade and of all-time."
While this may be true in Las Vegas, Pacquiao produced a live gate of over 50,000 in Texas against Clottey.

[Robbie Barrett]

So Haymon will be lucky if he breaks even..............

[Scipio2009]

lol rookie. The gate doesn’t all to go pbc lmaaooo. It sold less than 400k as well. That’s the number the promoters put out.

This wasn’t a big fight for ITV either. The British press didn’t even cover this fight lol.

You alsonleave our Badou Jack made a hit over 1 million. They lost a few mil on the fight but I’m sure that was always the plan. May-Pac2 is where they will make it back

Let's do some simple math, since you seem to have trouble here.

The take on the US PPV, assuming the public information is correct, is going to be near $15m. The tickets sold for the live event brought in $6m; venue rent, insurance, etc, and the net on the live event was likely near $5m (assuming they got nothing for hosting the fight in Las Vegas). ITV just signed a long-term deal with PBC and this was the first major US event to be broadcast for the deal; the ratings are whatever, but you seem to not get that the fight was free-to-air and on a fee in the UK. And then you have that giant Philippines sponsorship in the center of the ring (for more money than Corona typically offers).

On just what we can guess at for sure, the total is well over $20m, and that's before you start counting the the smaller revenues (PI/Polish/Mexico/Canadian/etc TV rights, merch, other event sponsors, etc).

Even if you pull $2m to cover the undercard purses and everything else (Badou Jack fought for $500k, so there goes that lie), the event cleared more than enough to cover the guarantees owed, via the commission and even the "undisclosed" one.

[inidouh]

Manny Pacquiao still boasts the ability to outperform most of the best welterweights in the ring and outdraw most other boxers at the box office. It still remains to be seen if he can recapture past glory in or out of the ring. Pacquiao's January 19th 12-round landslide win over former four-division titlist Adrien Broner at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas produced a live gate of just over $6 million from 11,410 tickets sold according to data provided to BoxingScene.com from the Nevada State Athletic Commission on Monday.
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By Jake Donovan

While he had a solid B-side box-office partner in Broner, there remains little to suggest that Pacquiao wouldn’t have done any better or worse at the box office with a lesser-known opponent.

How dumb do you have to be to write something like this. A lesser-known opponent? What exactly does that mean? I doubt that Pacquiao Vs Josesito Lopez or even vs Lamont Peterson would generate 6 million gate and 400,000 ppv at $74.99

Mr Donovan needs to leave the drugs alone.