Pacquiao-Margarito does 1.15 million PPV buys

[fan johnny]

Very good numbers, what money did the fighters get for this fight?

Pac got a guarantee 15 mil with Margarito a guarantee 3 mil, if I'm not mistaken. With a percentage of the ppv buys that each fighter gets Pac is looking at pocketing another 10 mil, while Margarito could get another 5 mil.

Yeah i think that's correct

Try it like this:

Assume the given Pac's Guarantee is $15 Mil. and Marga's Guarantee is $3 Mil.

15+3=18 where 18 is 100%: 3/18= 16.67% 15/18= 83.33% ; 16.67+83.33=100

$54.95 * 1.15 Million =~$63 Million / 2 = $31.5 Million, assuming half the revenue is the purse split which goes to the fighters.

Pacquiao = $26.25 Million
Margarito = $ 5.25 Million

This does not include live gate sales. Who knows what that number actually is. Even with 41,000 tickets sold it won't surpass the high prices at the MGM Grand where they do between $16-20 Mil. It will come in at less than $13-16 Mil depending on which seats were actually sold.

I based this on previous PPV fight revenue splits published. If Pacquiao and Margarito have their guarantee's deducted from the revenue split then they are getting a poor deal from the Promoter's by comparison to what Dela Hoya's revenue splits were.