Comments Thread For: Pacquiao-Thurman Card Did $6.26M Gate From 11,346 Tickets Sold

[andocom]

As long as the PPV undergirds social gatherings, it will never die. And frankly, no one throwing a party with family and friends is going to risk being embarrassed on the side chance that a stream goes bad or that the illegal stream gets found and pulled just as the big fights are happening.

The legal streaming option (without risk of getting pulled) is now entrenched and will stand as a supplement to the traditional PPV path, but don't kid yourself.

The parties etc you mention that won't risk a stream dying are what 20k, 50k? That's not a business model. If you have to cover $30m in revenue before you see profit with sharing with broadcaster, fighters, etc smaller and smaller PPV diehards aren't going to cover it.

The odd mega spectacular Mac/May May/Pack type of thing will continue for a bit, but it's all heading in one direction.

[Scipio2009]

The parties etc you mention that won't risk a stream dying are what 20k, 50k? That's not a business model. If you have to cover $30m in revenue before you see profit with sharing with broadcaster, fighters, etc smaller and smaller PPV diehards aren't going to cover it.

The odd mega spectacular Mac/May May/Pack type of thing will continue for a bit, but it's all heading in one direction.

If you honestly think that Thurman-Pacquiao only had 50k fight parties in all of the US on Saturday, you're fooling yourself. I don't know where you're from, but very few folks I know anyway, are sitting in a room, watching a fight by themselves if they have the choice.

Not every fight will be or should be PPV; Canelo is a PPV fighter, Wilder is basically a PPV fighter now, and Errol Spence Jr will be a PPV fighter going forward were he to beat Porter and Pacquiao to become WBC/WBA/IBF champion. Beyond that, it's matchup dependent.

Breaking a million PPV buys is going to take the right matchup, but you don't need a million buys.

Thurman-Pacquiao apparently is on track to top 500k PPV buys, Spence-Porter now has 2 months to build an event that builds on Spence-Garcia, and then we've got Wilder-Ortiz 2 for the late Fall.

At least three chances to gather all of the friends and family together to have a fun Saturday that you likely wouldn't have had otherwise, for less than $200 all in ($75 on the PPV, $100 for the drink/food depending on what you get and what folks bring).

[JuniorTorres720]

the ppv numbers won't be released if they are bad! There's wasn't that much buzz for this fight I don't think they broke 500k. Pacquiao's drawing power has continually gone down since the fourth marquez fight.

There wasn’t that much buzz for this fight? It received top notch promotion by PBC and FOX. The amount of content was deep and there was definitely hype for this fight. I think it’ll do a solid 700k but I wouldn’t be surprised if it gets near 1 mil.

[spenz]

Maybe 500k PPV tops.

This is probably just Manny's legit return to superstardom. Maybe in his next upcoming fights is the time we will see those 700-800k PPVs back again.

[komandante]

Pac lost money in this fight too many PH politician was given complimentary tickets w/c Pac will shoulder.

[cpk-mb]

Pacquiao vs Broner earned about 425K PPV buys

That is way better than Wilder-Fury's 325K PPV buys.

Pacquiao vs Thurman PPV buys is hovering around 600-700K PPV buys

Those are very impressive numbers considering this is Thurman's first PPV fight.

[Bronx2245]

what difference does that make??? if conor would have fought pac or canelo instead of floyd, they would make around the same! +/- a few mills. in fact, the fight might even be bigger based of their style match ups! lol!

Go look at the numbers! When Floyd fights, the numbers are not even close! That's why 5 out of top 6 fights in Nevada history are Mayweather fights!

[gritsteel]

There wasn’t that much buzz for this fight? It received top notch promotion by PBC and FOX. The amount of content was deep and there was definitely hype for this fight. I think it’ll do a solid 700k but I wouldn’t be surprised if it gets near 1 mil.

Even if it made 700k, it will probably be announced as 500K. It's in the best interest of all parties involved if the real higher amount is not known lol, especially the Philippine side.

Lucky for Inson who replaced Molina, $100k purse for him, he can retire already, he won't make it at welterweight, maybe he should go down to 140.

[JuniorTorres720]

Even if it made 700k, it will probably be announced as 500K. It's in the best interest of all parties involved if the real higher amount is not known lol, especially the Philippine side.

Lucky for Inson who replaced Molina, $100k purse for him, he can retire already, he won't make it at welterweight, maybe he should go down to 140.

Why do you think they wouldn't announce the real figure?

[Someone88]

This is very good for Boxing!