Pacquiao-Clottey does 700,000 PPV buys

[DaxxKahn]

You also leave off a lot of other PPV fights that you have to think about the day in which they were...PPV was not always as big as it was today..

Heavyweight fights were the big earners....In 1995,96,97 etc...Matter of fact who else other then DLH under hwt was headlining PPV fights on a constant basis


To sell over 500,600 buys in 97 for a fight with a washed up Camacho..is equal to almost a million today

400,000 Buys for a fight with Javier Castillejo ...In todays PPV terms that is almost double.. What circumstances were around that?


DLH is the most successfully marketed fighter of all time that includes Tyson and anyone else for that matter....

As for someone saying before how the Pacquiao Marquez ppv did shit...It was the highest grossing PPV under 147lb weight class....
Pacquiao Marquez set PPV record for any weight class below WWQ
Pacquiao-Marquez Sets PPV Record

I never said Pacquiao-Marquez did shit, it did very impressively for a fight between two 130lbers, but they were also the recognized 2nd & 3rd best fighters in the world at that point.

You're also trying to twist the numbers to suit your argument. How do those numbers in 1997 & 2001 suddenly double? Economically, the average person has less now than they did then, particularly 2001.

Camacho had a fanbase and fights between Puerto Ricans and Mexicans always sell well. In addition, in his previous fight he'd beaten Ray Leonard in his comeback, so it's not like he didn't have exposure.

Castilleijo granted was a nobody, but if Oscar was PPV beast you say he would have done far more than that. Let's face it Pacquiao fought an opponent with similar name recognition & did 300,000 more.

In contrast you go on about PPV history, well here's Mayweather's

Gatti - 365,000
Judah - 375,000
Baldomir - 325,000
De La Hoya - 2.4m
Hatton - 925,000
Marquez - 1.05m

Granted there is an obvious jump after the Oscar fight, but the fact was he was doing numbers against opponents who weren't big names that aren't dissimilar to Oscar's against opponents of a similar calibre. You really seem to be unable to admit that he is the PPV king now. He may not be quite on the same level as Oscar, but as of right now he clearly is the top guy. Bulldog is right, in about five years everyone will be biitching about how Andre Berto and Devon Alexander are nowhere near the PPV stars that Mayweather & Pacquiao were.

I never sai YOU said Pacquiao Marquez did shit numbers...

See you have your Underroos up in a ball because you just ignored the part that said "SOMEONE".so...I think it was Althugz...Stating Marquez has hardly any fans or something like that..At the time of the post I could not scroll down enough to check who posted it...Never said you....Get over yourself....AND Althugz did not say it in the sense to cause an argument....Just stating Marquez drawing power...

AS FOR the PPV difference between 1996-1997 and now...I am guessing you are either under 25 or know SHIT about PPV be it boxing or anywhere else..

In the Mid 1990's the only people who profited from PPV sales in a high number were HWT division fighters....Actually you can almost say Mike Tyson because he was the only real PPV attraction period then...Even when Holyfield Bowe etc did PPV it was not Tyson size....

Over the years The biggest known PPV event non HW was actually not a PPV event but a telecast event w Hagler Leonard people went to movie theaters bard etc to pay to see the fight....

The only other known PPV blockbuster every year for sure was WWE Wrestlemania.....For a fighter to do 300,000 400,000 500,000 buys non HW back then was phenominal!!!! If they were not such high buys for the time period they would not have kept putting on PPV even after PPV event with the fighter....They don't do it to lose money.....

So yes 400,000 buys 15 years later would be an almost double today....

You know kind of like how you go buy gas at 3.00 a gallon yet in 1995 it was on 1.75 a gallon

The Mayweather numbers you put up w Gatti Judah and Baldomir were shit for the time they were put up...we are talking 2005-2006....where PPV cards were on a regular basis....

Regardless of how well his numbers are now any PPV in 2005-2006 to sell under 400,000 is a bust