PACQUIAO-HATTON: 1.28M PPV buys

[fan johnny]

It didn't pull in 930,000, HBO sources implied that it was 825,000, which Arum didn't want to release because it was lower than PBF-Hatton which was something like 900,000. Stupid on Arum's part.

I'm amazed the fight pulled in just 350,000 in the UK, I got the impression more people watched it than that, that's not that much higher than the Malignaggi fight. I think the extra 100,000 they've added to the US figure probably came off the UK number. Even so that's a lot lower than I expected, seeing as the Mayweather-Hatton fight did 1.3m PPVs over here.

Well, nice to see some nice, balanced impartial journalism there in that article. Is that you XaduBoxer?

Ah... there was no official release of the PPV numbers.... we don't know what it actually did and how can we believe any number at this point because it all leads to lies. Why else would there be a release of the actual numbers?

Having said that, the total number is believable.

I don't agree with the article being Pacquiao got the short end of the deal because it supposes Hatton got PPV numbers and Pacquiao got the US PPV numbers. I think both fights got what they deserved.

[JazMerkin]

It didn't pull in 930,000, HBO sources implied that it was 825,000, which Arum didn't want to release because it was lower than PBF-Hatton which was something like 900,000. Stupid on Arum's part.

I'm amazed the fight pulled in just 350,000 in the UK, I got the impression more people watched it than that, that's not that much higher than the Malignaggi fight. I think the extra 100,000 they've added to the US figure probably came off the UK number. Even so that's a lot lower than I expected, seeing as the Mayweather-Hatton fight did 1.3m PPVs over here.

Well, nice to see some nice, balanced impartial journalism there in that article. Is that you XaduBoxer?

Ah... there was no official release of the PPV numbers.... we don't know what it actually did and how can we believe any number at this point because it all leads to lies. Why else would there be a release of the actual numbers?

Having said that, the total number is believable.

I don't agree with the article being Pacquiao got the short end of the deal because it supposes Hatton got PPV numbers and Pacquiao got the US PPV numbers. I think both fights got what they deserved.

Why would HBO sources lie?? It's better for them to say how high it is & 825,000 is HIGH, they're not going to downplay the figures because the higher they are the better for them. On the other hand Pacquiao's people do have a reason to inflate it. So yeah, I'll believe the much quoted figure of 825,000 that came out of HBO 'unofficially'. I'm still surprised if the fight did that little over here. Although considering the size of the UK compared to US, we do a much better percentage of PPVs.

[Gandalf]

Wanting to keep PPV figures a secret is undeniably gay.

Somebody should give Arum a slap.