Delahoya-Mayweather Richest Boxing Fight ever 2.15 million PPV buys

[clean]

holyfield had 45 mil str8 up without factoring in the ppv buys for the one tyson fight. I'm not sure if it was tghe first or the second one.

It was $34 million, but he got no percentage of the ppv revenue. Tyson got $29.5 mil.

[El Gamo]

WOW!!!!! wHAT was the record before this fight>?? Here's some more stats...

-- Television in 176 countries
-- 2.15 million pay-per-view buys
-- $120 million in pay-per-view revenue
-- 2000+ U.S. closed circuit locations
-- 28,000 closed circuit sales in Las Vegas
-- $19 million live gate at the MGM Grand

http://www.fightnews.com/fightnews_2...EzBqDALlh.html

[TheBESTP4P]

Christ all bloody mighty thats astronomical figures, I can't believe how well it did, congratulations to GBP and HBO, they're keeping the money into the most decadent sport on the planet, but they are swallowing a ridiculous amount of that money. Boxing is still the Rolls Royce of all sports. That money that we, the fans pay, we all shell out a lot of money, and we keep this sport alive, so now, what boxing, the promoters and the TV people really needs to do is give it back to us fans, because without US the sport dies. Where the F*** is our pay off? A ticket for a football, soccer, baseball, basketball theatre etc. costs a 1/3 of a F****** damn boxing ticket, so where's our pay off? Where's the value? I went to see UFC, I paid £120 ($240) and for that I met all the fighters, I attended the weigh in and I even had a drink with the boss, thats right Dana White bought be a F****** pint of Fosters, that is what boxing is competing with, every fight on the card I didn't have a clue who was gonna win and they were all very exciting. I went to see Calzaghe v Lacy and I paid £318 ($630) for my ticket and I felt like I had been dry bummed, 2 good fights on the whole card and nothing but a F*** you the day before.

CC #400 haahha i love your story bro!

[chamiley]

holyfield had 45 mil str8 up without factoring in the ppv buys for the one tyson fight. I'm not sure if it was tghe first or the second one.

holyfield was guranteed 35 million here is the link
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/box_de_la...blkLs_n3jBaMYA

[Wacko3205]

Well...now Mick can finally stamp Wacko as a fellow rump-ranger because after I dolfed off all that cash for my seat...I feel like Oscar & Floyd just punched me in the brown seat.

Heh heh heh.

It was worth every painful inch penny!

[sleeplessrevolution]

glad to hear this news! So boxing is still alive.

[The Rookie Fan]

ESPN just reported that Oscar will pocket around 45 MILLION DOLLARS and Floyd will take home a little more than 20 Million. Good lord, I'm glad Floyd won but Oscar is taking his loss and cashing it at Washington Mutual. Yikes, 50 Million dollars for one fight?!?! Oscar is a F****** genius. Floyd doubled his original check but damn, Oscar really is caked up.

So I ask you, who really won last Saturday?

[The Boxer]

2.15 million ppv buys?

Wait a second.... I thought boxing was dying??

middle weight on down we have been seeing good fights. fuck the heavy weights

PBF DLH
winky hopkins
Hatton Castllio
Barrera JMM(not to long ago)
cotto Judah

the outcomes of these fights should only bring on better fights

[Gandalf]

Its a crying shame that boxing sells these big fights PPV anyways. Because it sold so much does not mean boxing is now suddenly popular after a long hiatus. 2 Million PPV'S means a tiny minority of people in the US actually watched the fight. Even if people that got the PPV invited a whole cascade of friend rounds to watch it, it still makes the number of people seeing the biggest fight in years actually quite a small figure. Considering these are two American fighters. One being the biggest name and the other being P4P number 1, its a shame that such a small proportion of the nation actually got to watch. PPV is an elitist thing that only deprives boxing from being a sport that truly connects to the mass populace.

Boxing needs to try and find a way to make its popularity grow...this fight was a relative success but where is the big fight to follow it? Long on the horizon!

[Taeth]

holyfield had 45 mil str8 up without factoring in the ppv buys for the one tyson fight. I'm not sure if it was tghe first or the second one.

Its was 25 million, and Tyson made that as well.

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holyfield had 45 mil str8 up without factoring in the ppv buys for the one tyson fight. I'm not sure if it was tghe first or the second one.

Its was 25 million, and Tyson made that as well.

Holyfield got $34 mil. and Tyson got just under $30 mil. If you remember, Tyson was fined $3 million for the bite, since at the time, 10% of the purse was the maximum that could be taken. It was after that fight that the commission ruled from then on, an entire purse could be taken.