Coppinger reports 800-850K PPV Buys for WilderFury2

[Thuglife Nelo]

Sources: The rematch between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury generated in the neighborhood of approxmately 800,000 to 850,000 pay-per-view buys in North America. Best performance - by far - for a heavyweight title fight since Tyson-Lewis in 2002. Wilder-Fury 1 sold around 325K buys

— Mike Coppinger (@MikeCoppinger) February 27, 2020

[_Maxi]

Till this day!!! Till this day!!!

[bigdunny1]

Bob Arum said the fight needed 850K just to break even and was predicting 2M PPV buys. They spent 56M in guaranteed purses for Wilder and Fury alone, had unheard amount promotion pushed by 2 of the top networks in the US and still couldn't crack 1M buys and probably lost money best case scenario they break even. lol

[_Maxi]

Bob Arum said the fight needed 850K just to break even and was predicting 2M PPV buys. They spent 56M in guaranteed purses for Wilder and Fury alone, had unheard amount promotion pushed by 2 of the top networks in the US and still couldn't crack 1M buys and probably lost money best case scenario they break even. lol

Best ppv outcome since 2002 for HW and you still complain. Best HW gate ever at Vegas.

Till this day!!!

[TMLT87]

800-850k is a pretty good number, even in the 90s that would be a respectable number for a big HW fight not involving Mike Tyson. Anyone projecting 1m+ was being overly optimistic, a jump from 325k to 800k is already pretty crazy. For most of the last 10-15 years you could barely entertain the idea of a HW boxing match doing even a quarter of that on PPV in the US. Rahman/Maskaev 2 did 60,000 on HBO PPV in 2006 for ****s sake.

[AbuBakr]

mexicans be like "emmanuel navarrete sold the ppv", "they put navarrete in the undercard so mexicans can buy the PPV"

[-Antonio-]

What's even better is the national attention the fight received after the fact.

[QballLobo]

That means not much PPV upside for each fighter.
Better number than I predicted if true. I said double the first fight which would have been app. 700k buys.

[redmish]

Decent in todays market. What would a third fight generate? I'm not sure if it would be more or less. The fight was pretty one sided.

[BangEM]

I broke the news before Mike Coppinger: https://www.boxingscene.com/forums/s...d.php?t=841990
BIGPOPPAPUMP time to restore my rep to where it belongs.