I've heard somewhat disappointing figures..

[Mo Frazier]

For the Mayweather - Mosley PPV..



According to boxingnews24.com, it did between 1.1 and 1.2 million buys, quite short of the initial estimation by Schaefer of 3 million buys (Later bumped up to 4 million).

[skel1983]

Well not surprising if true, I think a lot of people were building this up to more than it actually was Mayweather was a 1/4 fav fighting a guy who has had one great performance in maybe 4 years. Not bad numbers in truth but it wasn't a huge huge fight like everyone was saying imo.

I was way more pumped for the Pac/Cotto fight.

[piye]

Dissapointing? how many fights have sold over a million PPV in the history of PPV?

[skel1983]

Dissapointing? how many fights have sold over a million PPV in the history of PPV?

Well I think he means in light of what Golden Boy were thinking it would do. In reality great figures and shows that big fights in boxing still rules the roost.

[Nameless]

700 000 for the Clottey-Pacquiao http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/sports/03...00000-ppv-buys

1.6 million Pacquiao-Cotto: Manny Pacquiao, PPV TV Hercules: 1.6 million buys and counting

I would say that a Mayweather-Pacquiao could make 2 to 2.5 possibly.

[Boxer4life]

i dont think anything over a million is disappointing, i think were expecting to much from mayweather.........now mayweather and pacman should do some extraordinary number together

[blegit]

Yeah, in reality any PPV over 1 millions buys is highly successful. Its just Schaefer rained on his own parade by saying that bullcrap about 4 million buys. Now what in reality is successful appears to be a failure. Forget what you heard. Boxing is doing well.

[OumaFan]

To be fair it is a bit disappointing even if you didn't pay a bit of attention to Schaeffer's four million bullshit. Mosley's never been a huge star but it seemed like there was a ton of buzz for this one.

The silver lining is that assuming they can ever get over the drug test BS this makes a May-Pac fight more likely. If Mayweather had picked up a huge number, 2 million or so (which seemed very possible to me) then no way he would have accepted 50/50.

[generalbulldog]

To be fair it is a bit disappointing even if you didn't pay a bit of attention to Schaeffer's four million bullshit. Mosley's never been a huge star but it seemed like there was a ton of buzz for this one.

The silver lining is that assuming they can ever get over the drug test BS this makes a May-Pac fight more likely. If Mayweather had picked up a huge number, 2 million or so (which seemed very possible to me) then no way he would have accepted 50/50.

Even if this fight did do 2 million PPV buys, Mayweather imo would still fight Pac considering that he did do 2.4 with Oscar and was still willing to accept 50/50 for the money split before the fight was off.

[skel1983]

To be fair it is a bit disappointing even if you didn't pay a bit of attention to Schaeffer's four million bullshit. Mosley's never been a huge star but it seemed like there was a ton of buzz for this one.

The silver lining is that assuming they can ever get over the drug test BS this makes a May-Pac fight more likely. If Mayweather had picked up a huge number, 2 million or so (which seemed very possible to me) then no way he would have accepted 50/50.

Great point Ouma these numbers could actually be positive in Pac.Floyd talks as Floyd knowing 50/50 will still be by far his biggest pay day and he cant really demand much more after these figures and he will probably no this.

[jdonaher1]

Yeah I agree - anything over 1 million buys is excellent. When is the last time a heavyweight fight did over a million buys?? Other than an all Klitshcko battle royal vs. each other I can't think of a single heavyweight fight that would get anywhere near a million at this moment.

I'm guessing Pacman-Mayweather will break the all-time PPV record. I say 2.5mil+ If Floyd and Manny can pretty much do a million buys just about everytime out now I think it has a chance.

[Mo Frazier]

Dissapointing? how many fights have sold over a million PPV in the history of PPV?

Well I think he means in light of what Golden Boy were thinking it would do. In reality great figures and shows that big fights in boxing still rules the roost.

Precisely

[C-Lo]

Schaffer really jumped the gun on that one! I actually thought this fight would be way up there in buys. That number, if official, really surprises me. Everyone at work and clients I interacted with all talked about the fight the Friday before it happened. When Schaffer mentioned it might do 4 million buys I seriously thought, "there goes Golden Boy and their BS again." Oscar also said, "I fought these two guys and I know one thing, there is definitely going to be a knockout."

[InTheNeutralCorner]

One thing that I learned from all of these ....... never trust Schaefer or Arum with regards to estimating PPV buys. They are always way off the mark. I think HBO should issue a gag order on those two after the fights.

[belakbox]

Those are sweet numbers considering the fight was more fixed than a spade cat.