HBO only made $9 million from Mayweather-Pacquiao

[Xoo]

According to Lance Pugmire from the Los Angeles Times, his source said HBO made only $9 million from MayPac. A PPV that generated over $435 million in sales.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...nap-story.html

Yet somehow some people here thinks HBO actually makes significant revenue from PPVs. If Ward-Kovalev does it'd projected 200,000 buys ($12 million in revenue)... HBO will literally see peanuts.

Nine million dollars is better than nothing. I'll take nine million of anyone is offering.

[Robbie Barrett]

That'd mean that a HBO PPV with 1 million buys would generate $4 million - marketing/production/replay.

A 500,000 buy PPV would generate $2 million - marketing/production/replay.

A 250,000 buy PPV would generate $1 million - marketing/production/replay.

Peanuts in the end.

Fights on regular HBO cost them money. They probably get the replay for free and get their name attached to the big fights. Profit is always better than expense.

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

sometimes you have to take a L to take a W later + their is something called brand awareness (my real hustlers know about this), which is pretty much what hosting that fight was so making money on brand awareness is already a W cause most company have an advertising budget for brand awareness and they lost money! Damn HBO STAY WINNING.

[Scipio2009]

According to Lance Pugmire from the Los Angeles Times, his source said HBO made only $9 million from MayPac. A PPV that generated over $435 million in sales.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...nap-story.html

Yet somehow some people here thinks HBO actually makes significant revenue from PPVs. If Ward-Kovalev does it'd projected 200,000 buys ($12 million in revenue)... HBO will literally see peanuts.

HBO made $9m: Showtime (the lead broadcaster for the event) likely made at least $9m on the fight as well.

Between the broadcaster's share on the fight, a single entity would've likely made $20m (or over 80% of HBO's rumored boxing budget).

Showtime walked away with 6 Mayweather fights, of which their share of the events totaled likely over $750m in PPV revenue (Showtime is only credited with half of the Pacquiao revenue; if they'd gotten the full fight share, the 6 Maywweather fights would've generated $1b).

At worse, Showtime cleared $40m on the Floyd fights, enough to cover most of the costs of two years of their boxing programming.

If Kovalev-Ward does $12m in PPV revenue (which is a low number, tbh), HBO still clear $1m (enough money to finance another fight card that they wouldn't have been able to currently put on)

[sicko]

Awww Poor HBO

Don't blame nobody for this BESIDES HBO! HBO should've stayed in their place as a Network instead of trying to become a promotion. HBO was at it's best when they would just bid on the fights they wanted to show instead of now trying to play promoter and matchmaker like they do now

HBO need to get back to being a Network and leave the Promoting to the Promoters. Whoever put together the best fights should have the privileged to be on HBO, that is how it USE TO BE!

[al-Xander]

Showtime walked away with 6 Mayweather fights, of which their share of the events totaled likely over $750m in PPV revenue (Showtime is only credited with half of the Pacquiao revenue; if they'd gotten the full fight share, the 6 Maywweather fights would've generated $1b).

Stop making **** up bro. Showtime lost a lot of subscribers for not being able to produce fights right after the Pac/May fight. The rest of that year was abysmal. This from a network that was supposedly made tons of money from the Mayweather contract.

Espinoza was in recent articles making it clear they're not funding the MacGregor fight. Or whoever he fights for his comeback fight. And, again, this from a network that supposedly made huge amounts of money from Mayweather.

It's a myth doe. Mayweather is too greedy to share his loot.

[PKing]

Fights on regular HBO cost them money. They probably get the replay for free and get their name attached to the big fights. Profit is always better than expense.

Nope. They gotta pay good $$$ for replay rights and production.

[OnePunch]

my understand of the deal was that HBO and Showtime were splitting 7% on a 50-50 split.....

[Fetta]

Now you so called boxing fans are worried what HBO got from the fight?

[BlakBread904]

PPV supposed to supplement not be the main source of income for boxing. HBO uses boxing to get subscribers. The same way they use GOT to get subscribers. Boxing PPV is the only programming HBO can see an immediate profit from without relying on monthly subscriptions.

Good post.