With HBO wrapping up their boxing, I would love to see a list of every HBO PPV Main Event throughout the years and the number of PPVs they put on per year. And might as well post the Showtime PPVs beside them also.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~--~Ross Greenburg, then president of HBO Sports, called the expansion of pay-per-view "the biggest economic issue in boxing", stating "I can't tell you that pay-per-view helps the sport because it doesn't. It hurts the sport because it narrows our audience, but it's a fact of life. Every time we try to make an HBO World Championship Boxing fight, we're up against mythical pay-per-view numbers. HBO doesn't make a lot of money from pay-per-view. There's usually a cap on what we can make. But the promoters and fighters insist on pay-per-view because that's where their greatest profits lie."[25]
"It's a big problem," Greenburg continues. "It's getting harder and harder to put fighters like Manny Pacquiao on HBO World Championship Boxing. If Floyd Mayweather beats Oscar, he might never fight on HBO World Championship Boxing again. But if HBO stopped doing pay-per-view, the promoters would simply do it on their own [like Bob Arum did with Cotto-Malignaggi in June 2006] or find someone else who will do it for them."[25]
Former HBO Sports President Seth Abraham concurs, saying, "I think, if Lou (DiBella) and I were still at HBO, we'd be in the same pickle as far as the exodus of fights to pay-per-view is concerned."[26]----
2018 HBO Canelo vs ggg II ppv buys 1.1 millions buys generated at least $94 million.
2017 HBO CANELO VS GGG ppv buys 1.3 millions buys
2017 SHOWTIME Mayweather Jr. vs. McGregor ppv buys 4.4 millions
2017 HBO CANELO VS Julio César Chávez Jr. ppv buys 1 millions buys
2017 HBO Andre Ward vs. Sergey Kovalev II ppv buys 130,000
2017 HBO Gennady Golovkin vs. Daniel Jacobs ppv buys 170,000
2016 HBO Sergey Kovalev vs. Andre Ward ppv buys 165,000
2016 TOP RANK Manny Pacquiao vs. Jessie Vargas ppv buys 300,000
2016 HBO Canelo Álvarez vs. Liam Smith ppv buys 300,000
2016 HBO Terence Crawford vs. Viktor Postol ppv buys 55,000
2016 HBO Canelo Álvarez vs. Amir Khan ppv buys 600,000
2016 HBO Manny Pacquiao vs. Timothy Bradley III ppv buys 400,000
2015 HBO Miguel Cotto vs. Canelo Álvarez ppv buys 900,000
2015 HBO Gennady Golovkin vs. David Lemieux ppv buys 150,000
2015 SHOWTIME Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Andre Berto ppv buy 400,000
2015 HBO SHOWTIME Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao 4.6 MILLIONS
2014 HBO Manny Pacquiao vs. Chris Algieri ppv buys 400,000
2014 SHOWTIME Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Marcos Maidana II ppv buys 925,000
2014 SHOWTIME Canelo Álvarez vs. Erislandy Lara ppv buys 300,000
2014 HBO Miguel Cotto vs. Sergio Martínez PPV BUYS 315,000
2014 SHOWTIME Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Marcos Maidana ppv buys 900,000
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