How many PPV's does it take to make Floyd-Maidana a success?

[BattlingNelson]

IMO? I'll answer that way as i can read unlike others.

A millions buys would be a huge success. 8-900k would not be hugely disappointing IMO.

Haha. Nice.

One million you say. So basically you are expecting that Showtime loses money given that they need 1.5 to break even.

[BattlingNelson]

Put it like this. Kessler would have to fight King Kong on ppv in order for Kessler to equal 1 Floyd ppv. This thread has Pacquiao Kessler overtones written all over it.

What's wrong with you?

[Resilient]

Showtime were stupid giving Floyd that deal lmao... not a worthwhile investment.

[Robbie Barrett]

Why does this need 1.5 mil to break even but the Guerrero fight needed 1 mil? Mayweathers guarantee is the same. Guerrero actually got paid more.

[WilkinsOlajuwon]

Cable carriers get 50% Showtime is NOT a provider. They air the fight they do not own it. Networks usually have to pay to air the fight the week after.

[Jimmy 23]

1.1 mln will be good numbers

[MRCHOKEaMF]

The truth is no one knows except Showtime execs, the people that are saying 1.5mil are floyd haters plain and simple because selling a MILLION is a success and they need to build up Pac to say he's comparable, but Floyd usually does over a million and Pac, his last two PPv's are 475K and Pac vs Bradley 2 is being reported at 775-800K. He's guaranteed 32mil so anyone with common sense knows THATS DAMN GOOD.
Heres a few quotes from the article:
These PPV numbers are far, far below the 2.2 million PPV buys that Floyd Mayweather Jr’s last fight against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez brought in last September. Mayweather’s numbers were over twice as many, and that makes it even more difficult to arrange a fight between Mayweather and Pacquiao.

The PPV numbers for the Pacquiao-Bradley 2 fight are an improvement from the 475,000 for the Pacquiao vs. Brandon Rios fight last November, but the figures are below the 890,000 that the first Pacquiao vs. Bradley fight generated in 2012. The fact that Pacquiao’s numbers were below that could be from fan exhaustion at seeing one too many retread fights involving Pacquiao being matched against the same opponents. Since 2004, Pacquiao has fought Juan Manuel Marquez four times and Bradley twice. Those are six fights between the same guys.
Pacquiao’s fights once were almost guaranteed to bring in over 1 million buys. From 2009 to 2011, Pacquiao was able to hit the 1 million+ PPV buy mark numerous times, even for mismatches against the likes of Shane Mosley and Antonio Margarito.

At the end of this year, Pacquiao’s contract with Top Rank will be expiring, and he’s got a big decision to make in terms of whether he should stay with Top Rank or move on. If Pacquiao stays with them, he’s going to need to fight bigger guys like Sergio Martinez and Miguel Cotto, because he’s not going to bring in a lot of PPV buys fighting Arum’s Top Rank stable fighters like Jessie Vargas, Bradley, Ruslan Provodnikov, Mike Alvarado, Terence Crawford, and Juan Manuel Marquez. The Pacquiao-Marquez 5 fight may bring in decent numbers, but no way will they go over 1 million buys. Fans have seen that fight way too many times for them to get excited about watching them fight for a fifth time.

Read more at [URL="http://www.************.com/2014/05/pacquiao-bradley-2-fails-to-break-1-million-buys"]

[Beercules]

I read on here that it would take 1.5 million.

Showtime about to lose some more money on Money

[way2strong]

0... The guy is getting paid 32 million .. $32,000,000 .. fuk shotime they made the choice to be idiot's and over pay him now they have to deal with it ..and fuk all Mayfeather groupie's you guys are fukin land shrimp's eating up all his **** ...

[Kuyukut]

fraud needs more than the abortion drama to sell his fight on May 3rd. i’d advice fraud to call for a press conference as soon as possible and announce that he is coming out the closet.

of course with partner ellerbe tagging along wiping fraud’s tears while publicly admitting his sexual orientation.

If fraud follows my advice the fight might get at least 900K ppv buys.