PPV Numbers Mayweather/Marquez

[Youngblood]

A poll for your guesses. I'm hoping it did well, but really have no clue. What is your guess?

[Cortez The Killer]

They didn't sell out the arena.

Still, 24/7 generates a lot of interest that might otherwise not be there. I'd say 700,000 tops bc competition from UFC.

I doubt we will get a real number. Floyds people will want to keep it hush because Pac-Cotto will probably outsell it and he doesnt want to lose bargaining power.

[SweetPea]

I guessed ~600K before the fight. I'll stick with that.

There's a chance the fight does better than that, because there's only been one other major PPV all year (Manny-Hatton), and that was more than 4 months ago.

[JazMerkin]

Youngblood, I dunno how math is going at school, but you do realize there's quite a substantial set of numbers between 600,000 & a million

Not that it matters because Youngblood is a bastard & that's all anyone should have to say on the matter.

[Fenster]

400K. Max. Fact.

[Fenster]

If it's more than 400K they're lying. Take that to the bank. Fact.

[SweetPea]

If it's more than 400K they're lying. Take that to the bank. Fact.

Mayweather-Baldomir did almost 400K. You don't think Marquez is a significantly bigger draw than Baldomir? Most people had never even heard of Baldomir.

[Youngblood]

Youngblood, I dunno how math is going at school, but you do realize there's quite a substantial set of numbers between 600,000 & a million

Not that it matters because Youngblood is a bastard & that's all anyone should have to say on the matter.

haha i know, I needed 6 options, d'oh! was running outta space for the standard Bastard option so jumped a few 400k or so.

[Fenster]

If it's more than 400K they're lying. Take that to the bank. Fact.

Mayweather-Baldomir did almost 400K. You don't think Marquez is a significantly bigger draw than Baldomir? Most people had never even heard of Baldomir.

That fight did 325,000.

There were constant reports about bad sales for this fight (Marquez-Floyd).. Marquez has no PPV numbers to speak of and Floyd's are determined by Oscar and Hatton.

I think they'll be happy with 400,000.

[JazMerkin]

If it's more than 400K they're lying. Take that to the bank. Fact.

Mayweather-Baldomir did almost 400K. You don't think Marquez is a significantly bigger draw than Baldomir? Most people had never even heard of Baldomir.

That fight did 325,000.

There were constant reports about bad sales for this fight (Marquez-Floyd).. Marquez has no PPV numbers to speak of and Floyd's are determined by Oscar and Hatton.

I think they'll be happy with 400,000.

I reckon this fight does better than expected. Marquez doesn't really have a fanbase outside boxing fans, but Mayweather does have a PPV buying fanbase thanks to WWE, the general hip-hop association & even dancing with the stars. I wouldn't be surprised if it did 600k+

[fan johnny]

There was a huge amount of support for Marquez in the last two weeks so I am thinking it will have cracked the 400k. I think 27/7, the fake injury postponement actually helped a lot with the extra publicity.

Only thing is the huge spike in Google trends about the fight may actually indicate that even fewer people bought the fight.

It will have failed if it did less 300K with the revised contracts giving Mayweather $10m and Marquez over $2m. We can now speculate that the original fight date was actually canceled and a new contract was made for Sept 19 with the revised numbers.

[Kirkland Laing]

GBP and Mayweather Promotions are claiming over a million. Unlikely. I went for half a mil.

[TigerFan]

400k-600k

I'd be surprised if the fight did more than that.

[fan johnny]

Marquez-Mayweather: No lion, free tickets, apathy, strictly "B" List

I was thinking it but thought there is no need to mention it because if it happened the press will write about it. GBP gave out free ticket to fill the seats for the cameras.

[JazMerkin]

Marquez-Mayweather: No lion, free tickets, apathy, strictly "B" List

I was thinking it but thought there is no need to mention it because if it happened the press will write about it. GBP gave out free ticket to fill the seats for the cameras.

Michael Marley is a tabloid journalist, there's a reason he doesn't even get a single slot for anything but the Examiner (effectively a low-paying blog). He represents all that is wrong with US boxing journalism & makes Dan Rafael look like Hemingway. If you don't remember he's the one who basically wrote a story implying that Corrales & Gatti were pussies immediately after Gatti's death & that he was 'more of a man'.