MAyweather Mosley does 1.4 mill homes (Likely to increase)

[piye]

Bump.

[killersheep]

Don't know that I'd trust Ellerbe as he's hardly an unbiased party, but the fight did well which makes me happy, as it did to see similar numbers from Pac/Clottey.

[fan johnny]

Not sure he said homes? Marketing people like to play word games.

It wasn't an official HBO release, but rather Ellerbe making a press release. The last time Keven Y. did a PPV numbers release it was pretty close to the actual number. 1.4 is substantially higher.

[piye]

Pac Clottey did like 700,000 which is good considering Clottey's lack of name.

[JazMerkin]

Rick Reeno reported this the other day as unofficially coming from an HBO source. I think if Ellerbe was going to embellish figures he would have done it earlier. The 1.2m that Iole was reporting was off incomplete figures, so it isn't ridiculous to think it went up.

[piye]

Mayweather proves to be a pay-per-view draw

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LAS VEGAS - Floyd Mayweather Jr. proved to be a box office draw in his fight with Shane Mosley, with 1.4 million buys for television revenue of $78.3 million.

HBO released figures Tuesday that showed the fight made the top 10 of pay-per-view bouts ever. The most pay-per-view buys for a fight was 2.4 million for Mayweather's 2007 bout with Oscar De La Hoya.

Mayweather's manager, Leonard Ellerbe, said the buys helped Mayweather pocket $40 million for the fight. He had been guaranteed $22.5 million plus a percentage of the sales.

Mayweather proves to be a pay-per-view draw - Sports- nbcsports.msnbc.com

[MMASUX]

I thought it would do a little more, but definitely good numbers.

[Kel]

It's good to see boxing still doing good PPV's. Now for the Manny fight, it would be fucking huge!!

[Kirkland Laing]

Rick Reeno

That's a fucking brilliant name for somebody hanging round professional boxing. I imagine Rick wears sunglasses indoors, has a golden dice pendant hanging round his neck and a big diamond pinkie ring.

[JazMerkin]

That's a fucking brilliant name for somebody hanging round professional boxing. I imagine Rick wears sunglasses indoors, has a golden dice pendant hanging round his neck and a big diamond pinkie ring.

I imagine him as a kind of mix of Jack Nicholson & Fat Tony. He has to have thinning hair & an expanding gut. That is a must.

* More worryingly me & Rick actually share two facebook friends in common

[Majesty]

Whats more impressive is that a fight with two american fighters did that many buys.

There was no "country vs country" behind the fight. There was no "national pride" at stake. It was two American fighters who more or less share the same type of crowd appeal which is the american public. That plus whatever crowd Mosley appeals to mayweather appeals to the bigger majority of it, so its actually very good. I can't think of the last time two american's really put on that big of a PPV fight. Maybe Tyson vs Spinks.

But if you look most of the biggest PPV fights, either was foreign vs foreign or American vs Foreign.

Like Oscar DLH vs Trinidad was Mexico vs Puerto Rico. Pacquiao vs Cotto, Phillipines vs Puerto Rico because they have large demographics to sale a fight on and many people.

But american's have so many boxing stars its very hard to solidify one or two and sale them to the same audience.

So the fact Shane and Floyd both did 1.4 mill is very impressive imo.

[Kirkland Laing]

I imagine him as a kind of mix of Jack Nicholson & Fat Tony. He has to have thinning hair & an expanding gut. That is a must.

* More worryingly me & Rick actually share two facebook friends in common

Can you get him to post a picture of himself? Actually better not, it's bound to be a let down.

[CFH]

That's a fucking brilliant name for somebody hanging round professional boxing. I imagine Rick wears sunglasses indoors, has a golden dice pendant hanging round his neck and a big diamond pinkie ring.

So you're saying he's Sergio Martinez' trainer?

[Kirkland Laing]

He's just got the glasses, he doesn't have the right kind of look although I was pretty impressed with it overall. He looks more like your full-on nutter type than some sleazy gambling character.