Final tally of Delahoya-Mayweather = more $$$ for Oscar & Floyd

[chamiley]

HBO said with the buys now fully accounted for, the fight actually generated 2.4 million buys and $134.4 million in domestic PPV revenue, bringing the total revenue for the event to approximately $165 million.

It is common for early pay-per-view tallies to rise once all the buys are counted, but the magnitude of the boost came as a surprise.

"When you're talking about a record, with numbers that are so big, you want to get it exactly right, and it takes a long time to count to 2.4 million," HBO PPV chief Mark Taffet told ESPN.com on Thursday.

The amended figures also vaulted De La Hoya into first place as the all-time pay-per-view sales king. His 18 PPV fights have sold 12.8 million units, sending him past Evander Holyfield's record of 12.6 million, which does not include the undisclosed total for his Oct. 13 PPV fight against Sultan Ibragimov. But that fight is not expected to reach even 100,000 buys.


The increase from $120 million to $134.4 million in PPV revenue means De La Hoya's events have generated $626.4 million, extending his revenue lead over second-place Mike Tyson ($545 million).

To put the revised De La Hoya-Mayweather numbers in perspective, De La Hoya's 1999 welterweight unification match against Felix Trinidad set the old record for a non-heavyweight fight with 1.4 million units sold. De La Hoya-Mayweather eclipsed that by 1 million, or the total of De La Hoya's 2004 HBO PPV fight with Bernard Hopkins.

The old all-time record for PPV buys was 1.99 million set by the 1997 heavyweight championship rematch between Holyfield and Tyson (the ear-bite fight). Now, De La Hoya-Mayweather is comfortably in first place all-time by 401,000 buys.

The De La Hoya-Mayweather increase to 2.4 million buys means that the total from the original tally rose by 250,000, or about 20,000 more than the total for the March fight between Juan Manuel Marquez and Marco Antonio Barrera.

[CutMeMick]

Not bad for a kid from East L.A.

[Wacko3205]

Not bad for a kid from East L.A.

Or a cryin bitch from Grand Rapids.

It takes two...oh how quickly THEY forget.

[Cortez The Killer]

That was a crap fight. Wish they got paid on performance, would of made about $10 each.

Oscar looked a fool and floyd forgot that at the end of the day boxing is still a contact sport.

[CutMeMick]

Not bad for a kid from East L.A.

Or a cryin bitch from Grand Rapids.

It takes two...oh how quickly THEY forget.

No one paid to see his ass.
As I said before he couldn't sell out his H.S. Gym if he fought there.
We all know why people paid that money that night.
It's all about The Golden Boy.

That is all.

[yoitsdan]

Not bad for a kid from East L.A.

Or a cryin bitch from Grand Rapids.

It takes two...oh how quickly THEY forget.

Mayweather pulls the crowd in cos they wanna see him get beat. When it's a Mayweather showcase (i.e Sharmba Mitchell/Carlos Baldomir) he doesn't do anywhere near as well.

[pacfan]

So this is what those miserable sonavaguns floating the pac-dela Hoya freak show is after, heh. Nice try...but that's really scary though - they might really go on with it. When that happens, maybe it's our time kiss our beloved boxing goodbye and switch to one of those fake martial arts - geeze, can't stand 'em...













...but I hope my boy wins though.

[pacfan]

Not bad for a kid from East L.A.

Or a cryin bitch from Grand Rapids.

It takes two...oh how quickly THEY forget.

How 'bout a poor kid from the deep jungles of the Philippines!?
Just keep your fingers crossed and the craziest rumor circulating around now might just come true - a making of another huge rip-off...

I wish I were part of it, though. $$$$$$$

[LEGION]

Not bad for a kid from East L.A.

Or a cryin bitch from Grand Rapids.

It takes two...oh how quickly THEY forget.

No one paid to see his a**.
As I said before he couldn't sell out his H.S. Gym if he fought there.
We all know why people paid that money that night.
It's all about The Golden Boy.

That is all.

Yeah, there is an interview they just had with Floyd's manager Ellerbe and he was talking all this junk about how Hatton's fans are really coming over to see Floyd fight He says Floyd is the draw in all his fights, but I know I watched for De La Hoya and only wanted to see Floyd because I wanted him to lose{though I like him for the most part} Now as far as Hatton, what fighter out there could get 4 or 5 thousand of their fans to follow them to Britain like Hatton does when he comes here? None! And if there was one who could do it, it would be Oscar.

[The Rookie Fan]

Not bad for a kid from East L.A.

Or a cryin bitch from Grand Rapids.

It takes two...oh how quickly THEY forget.

No one paid to see his a**.
As I said before he couldn't sell out his H.S. Gym if he fought there.
We all know why people paid that money that night.
It's all about The Golden Boy.

That is all.

Yeah, there is an interview they just had with Floyd's manager Ellerbe and he was talking all this junk about how Hatton's fans are really coming over to see Floyd fight He says Floyd is the draw in all his fights, but I know I watched for De La Hoya and only wanted to see Floyd because I wanted him to lose{though I like him for the most part} Now as far as Hatton, what fighter out there could get 4 or 5 thousand of their fans to follow them to Britain like Hatton does when he comes here? None! And if there was one who could do it, it would be Oscar.

Hey, Cotto and Tito filled MSG with puertorricans......











but I guess that don't coun't cuz they already lived there hehe.

[Dizaster]

This is why I wasn't a huge fan of this fight. Neither boxer was as hungry as they were earlier in their career for the win and the accalaids. BOTH were going to make a f'n a** load of money - win lose or draw.... It was a fight where the loser had already won before the fight had already happened. Neither fighter was really laying down much to lose.
Both great fighters, yes, and if you could have paired these 2 up at different stages of their careers, it would have been like lighting 1000 pounds of Dynamite and running... But it almost seemed like a formality considering all the business and $$$ surrounding it. Under the conditions of what it was, and where these guys are now career wise, I never thought it was going to be as great a fight as it could have been. Which is sad really.... No one is to blame for this of course... Business is business, and boxing is boxing... The timing of these 2 guys careers and where this fight ended up in relation to that can't possibly be changed... I guess that's why their is a million threads in boxing predictions like "who would win out of blah blah in his prime and blah blah in HIS prime at 145"... What if's....
If Delahoya and Mayweather had both met during their missions to the top or even early in their championship reign when they would have died before letting someone beat them,, then watch the f'k out...

I'm probably the only one that saw it that way in the end,,,, I couldn't help having that feeling about it though...
I was originally laughed at here for presenting the idea that money is ruining some fights in boxing (my example was this fight).. Alas, as someone said above, payment on performance and effort and do-or-die attitude would have seen these guys paid $10.. It was little more than a glorified sparring session between business partners getting paids MILLIONS of dollars to duke it out however they wished for 12 rounds... Could ANYONE say there was any more to this fight than my previous sentence?

They are both probably cuddled up on a bed together right now hugging it out over a pile of $100 bills..