Quote Originally Posted by C-Lo View Post
I'm actually very interested in the final numbers Pacquiao/De La Hoya made in PPV Buys last night.

If anyone knows the number, PLEASE post it up!

C'mon Saddoboxer! I know you won't disappoint me!!

We don't have the final PPV numbers yet... It takes weeks to consolidate...

We will have a board meeting within the week and probably we can come up a pretty close estimate of the final number...

So far this was the tracking status just before fight night...

"This isn't an election, but early returns look promising for Saturday night's showdown between Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao (HBO Pay-Per-View, 9 p.m. ET).

Based on early reports from cable companies and DirecTV and Dish Network, the scheduled 12-round welterweight bout could get as many as two million buys, according to Bob Arum, chairman of Top Rank, Inc., the event's co-promoter, said Thursday.

When De La Hoya fought Floyd Mayweather last year, that fight did 2.4 million buys. Buys for this weekend's fight in California are tracking at 90% of what estimates showed for De La Hoya-Mayweather.

"Will that hold for the country? It's like an election. Who the hell knows?" Arum said. "But we know based on those early numbers and based on experience the event will perform extremely well.

If I had to guess, anywhere between 1.6 million and two million homes, which is a home run."

Such projections are surprising because of how poorly the last two HBO PPV shows did. The Oct. 18 matchup with Bernard Hopkins vs. Kelly Pavlik as well as the Nov. 8 meeting between Roy Jones and Joe Calzaghe did less than 250,000 buys."