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I would guess about 700K in the US. Some people are predicting a million because of Floyd's appearance on Dancing with the Stars, which is a big show over here and exposed him to a lot of non-boxing fans. But 99% of people in the US have no clue who Ricky Hatton is, so I have a hard time believing the fight does a million. But I'd love to see it happen, it'd be a nice surprise if the fight pulled off a million.

There have only been two non-heavyweight fights in history that have done a million US PPV buys, and those are Floyd-DLH and Trinidad-DLH.
Totally agree. I'd like to ask though,is Mayweather well known/superstar in the US? Some say he is,some say he isn't.
A year ago, only boxing fans really knew Floyd. After the DLH fight (which was the biggest PPV in history), more people knew him. Then he expanded his visibility by appearing on Dancing With the Stars.
So he's definitely not a superstar, and in the US boxers are never as popular anymore as baseball, basketball, or football players, but he's probably the 2nd most well known active boxer in the US, behind only DLH. (Holyfield is more well-known, but I try to pretend he's retired at this point.)
Floyd's big goal was always to become a PPV star, which is something Roy Jones, Bernard Hopkins, and Shane Mosley were never able to accomplish. And he's done that, he's more well-known than any of those guys ever were.
That makes sense.I guessed all that exposure did Floyd good,the guy behind 24/7 is a GENIUS! I always though Shane was far too nice to ever be a big PPV star. I'm surprised Hopkins even does the numbers he does,especially since he has gotten more boring to watch,the older he has gotten. Roy..I've never seen Ron'yss PPV numbers,what are the highest he has ever done?