floyd-mosley early ppv buyrate indicates 1.1 to 1.2 million buys

[eagle]

if it's only 1.2m ppv, floyd-mosley fight promotion is not earning much.

my own general estimates:

revenues:
1. ppv ------ $70m (1.2m ppv buys x $56)
2. live gate -- 11m
3. other revenue -- ??
rough total = $81m

expenses:
1. floyd purse -- $22.5m (minimum guaranteed)
2. mosley purse -- 7m (minimum guaranteed)
3. hbo 24/7 ------ 4m
4. other expense -- ??
rough total = $34m

47 million isnt much?

for fight of this magnitude. it's a good number already but expectations for this fight is high. 2 most known and highly rated american boxers fighting in america.

as one poster mentioned above, a filipino and a puerto rican fight was doing a bit better.

Anything official yet?

[toe2toe]

47 million isnt much?

for fight of this magnitude. it's a good number already but expectations for this fight is high. 2 most known and highly rated american boxers fighting in america.

as one poster mentioned above, a filipino and a puerto rican fight was doing a bit better.

Anything official yet?

none yet. it's the early ppv buyrate as clearly stated.

[KKisser]

Early Talk: Mayweather-Mosley at 1.1-1.2 million buys - Bad Left Hook

if it's true, one good thing out of it is it makes the pac-floyd negotiations a little easier when it comes to purse split.

[fan johnny]

At least now that the hype is over for the promotion, the numbers are coming out of the clouds and into the mountain tops. It's a number that is through the roof as Schaefer would say. Oops! he did pull a Bob Arum and used something cosmic like 3 to 4 Million.

Typically anything over 300k is a success for a big fight, but the hype spent on this fight was way over the top. So I would expect the budget to be close to 750k PPV buys. At 1.2 Million PPV buys I would think GBP/HBO are still making a nice profit. I wonder if there will be some spats over who gets the tax deductions.

If the numbers do come in at 1.1-1.2 Mr. Mayweather would be a wise man to reconsider using Cowboy Stadium as the marketing.