Quote Originally Posted by El Gamo
It's on boxing talk,Arum mentions it. Pacquiao MAB 2 did 350k. I'm pretty impressed by Cotto-SSM. I initially though it would be 500k but SSM has never been a massive star.For a young fighter,Cotto did dam good and hopefully his stock will keep on rising.
This is an Arum lie. Notice that HBO did not issue their usual press release.

An industry source told me that the fight did WAY less. A tad under 300K.

Previous Arum lies: He said that Margarito-Gomez did about 100K. It did 35K.
Arum said that Cotto-Judah did 225K. It actually did 180K.

I understand why Bob does that. It benefits Arum to make his fighter seem like more of a draw than he really is. He is trying to create a successful "brand". Kinda like when the record company buys back a bunch of their artists' cd's.

But you should not believe the Arum numbers. Only trust the industry nums.