HBO and their PPV's

[No Contest]

I think this one would have done great PPV numbers.

I duno, I have to disagree here. I think it would have done very poorly. As albsur correctly noted above, Calzaghe-Kessler did the lowest rating in the history of HBO championship boxing. Hopkins has never been that big of a draw.

By all accounts, the tickets sales have been pretty mediocre too.

Thats why they should have fought in Wales, we got a semi-recession going on and not alot of people got the extra cash nowadays. Millenium sold 20 some thousand for JC's last fight? Hopkins did ok on PPV when he fought Winky, not because people wanted to see Winky, but because people knew it was a big fight like this one.