Over 20 years ago Tyson sold almost 2 million ppv buys

[lparm]

Just think about that.

1997

The internet was new and most households globally had no online access. The worlds population was 1.7 billion people less than today. He was coming off a loss preceeded by a rape conviction and prison sentence.

Tyson considering all the factors is the greatest ppv boxing star of all time.

[Larry the boss]

Yea Tyson was huge

[Larry the boss]

Foreman-Holyfield did 1.4 million in 1991

[Larry the boss]

But tysons numbers also proved when you lose.........NUMBERS DROP..he went from 1.9 with Lewis to 100k with the black rino

[lparm]

But tysons numbers also proved when you lose.........NUMBERS DROP..he went from 1.9 with Lewis to 100k with the black rino

Yeah the losses hurt him and by the end he was just nuts and people were tired of it. Considering inflation selling the numbers that he did 20 years ago is incredible.

[-Kev-]

It's worst to sell PPV's now. More people have access to internet (streams) than people had access to illegal cable back then.

Same with music albums, since the internet age, album sales have been slowly on the decline due to piracy. But back then when internet was in baby stages, pop stars, rappers, were selling 1 million+ easily.

Tyson's numbers today would get hurt.

Also, your 1.7 billion world population increase is mostly from Asia. I'm pretty sure Asia owns like half of that. Asia's pop doesn't count in HBO PPV's.

FMJ, Pac, Canelo, GGG, have it worst than ever in the internet age. 88% of Americans (286,942,362) have internet access.

[A.K]

Yea Tyson was huge

Tyson is goat Let's give a applause for the casuals

[hectari]

Just think about that.

1997

The internet was new and most households globally had no online access. The worlds population was 1.7 billion people less than today. He was coming off a loss preceeded by a rape conviction and prison sentence.

Tyson considering all the factors is the greatest ppv boxing star of all time.

Tyson was the biggest star in boxing, if he were around this era with the social media and internet, and no UFC, he would be doing at least 3 to 4 million ppv buys a fight
The guy was must see tv, scary looking, so fast even faster than some lightweights like a tasmanian devil just spinning and gyrating his hips with super fast hooks.