Pac-Cotto does 1.25 million buys

[amat]

I honestly thought it would be significantly more then that but oh well, it was a great fight and maybe it is just because I'm in the Bay Area. The buzz around here was much bigger for this one then the Mayweather fight. Of course people always underestimate the buying power of Mexicans who no doubt drove up the PPV buys more then we would think.

Lol, Amat nobody underestimates the buying power of Mexicans, they're the group who most boxing promoters target. People do underestimate the numbers of black people who buy fights, that's more likely what drove the PBF-JMM fight's numbers up. The Mayweather fight was far bigger amongst people I know, but then maybe that's because I don't know many Filippinos or Puerto Ricans

I'm just talking about fans in general though. Before the fight people were predicting like 400-500 thousand buys for Mayweather-Marquez, most of those attributed to Floyd's selling power, and I think the disparity is due to people underestimating how many Mexicans would buy the PPV. Not promoters, they know that's why Arum has all those Latin Fury cards.

[JazMerkin]

I'm just talking about fans in general though. Before the fight people were predicting like 400-500 thousand buys for Mayweather-Marquez, most of those attributed to Floyd's selling power, and I think the disparity is due to people underestimating how many Mexicans would buy the PPV. Not promoters, they know that's why Arum has all those Latin Fury cards.

I think it's more due to people underestimating that Floyd is crossover star, certainly in the black community. Over here people who have never shown an interest in boxing had facebook statuses about Mayweather, particularly a lot of girls. Now, if that's the black community in Britain, than it must at least be the same in the US.

Let's face it there was a lot of people predicting a poor PPV turnout for that fight based on their dislike for Mayweather. I said before that fight that it was all on him either way. If he did badly, the numbers were on him not Marquez, but the same has to go if it did well.

[LukeH]

I'm just talking about fans in general though. Before the fight people were predicting like 400-500 thousand buys for Mayweather-Marquez, most of those attributed to Floyd's selling power, and I think the disparity is due to people underestimating how many Mexicans would buy the PPV. Not promoters, they know that's why Arum has all those Latin Fury cards.

I think it's more due to people underestimating that Floyd is crossover star, certainly in the black community. Over here people who have never shown an interest in boxing had facebook statuses about Mayweather, particularly a lot of girls. Now, if that's the black community in Britain, than it must at least be the same in the US.

Let's face it there was a lot of people predicting a poor PPV turnout for that fight based on their dislike for Mayweather. I said before that fight that it was all on him either way. If he did badly, the numbers were on him not Marquez, but the same has to go if it did well.

I get the same thing feeling... I know alot of my friends ( who aren't particulaly boxing fans) are interested in Mayweather fights, for whatever reason I dont know. I think outside of hardcore Hatton fans Mayweather has got a very big fan base in the UK... But then people I know are probably more interested than Haye than Floyd and Pac put together .

[Taeth]

Wow I think Mayweather is a bigger draw... to get 1 million buys against Marquez is much bigger than 1.25 against Cotto. I am really surprised because I thought it would get around 1.4ish.

[fanjohn]

Very good news for boxing having fights cracking more than a million PPV buys mark.

[fan johnny]

Wow I think Mayweather is a bigger draw... to get 1 million buys against Marquez is much bigger than 1.25 against Cotto. I am really surprised because I thought it would get around 1.4ish.

Don't be .... 1<1.25.

If Mayweather were this big crossover super star he wouldn't have to try so hard to get sponsors and endorsements. They'd be knocking down his door. Every fight has two attractions, not one.

[Taeth]

I think endorsements have been ignoring boxing as a whole, its just not a market they usually cater to. I think Manny is such a big attraction endorsement wise is because they can sell anything with his name on it in his country and everyone will buy it.