Trinidad-Jones over 400K PPV Buys. Tito Earns $14 Million

[The Rookie Fan]

Can I have a link to the 400k buys please? That's ALOT of buys for a fight like this!

I know I saw an article on eastside which did not have exact figures but thay understand it was a little over 400k.

[El Gamo]

Can I have a link to the 400k buys please? That's ALOT of buys for a fight like this!

I know I saw an article on eastside which did not have exact figures but thay understand it was a little over 400k.

You think it was worth the 50 bucks?

[Master]

Now it maksense why Tito came back. Selling out his legacy.

[Hulk]

Damn. Tito made a lot more than Roy. 14 million for gettin knocked down twice ain't too bad.

Hulk its you, I owe you 5CCs. Here is #1 (576). But you gotta admit my boy did better than you expected. Hell he did better than I expected..

Yeah, he did. But I felt Roy carried him down the stretch. I forgot all bout our little wager. You're a good man for rememberin.

[chamiley]

Not bad for a fight nobody was really interested in:

According to a recent report on El Vocero of Puerto Rico, Felix Trinidad arrived home with two whopping checks that totaled slightly more than his earning for his super bout with Oscar De La Hoya at approximately $14 Million Dollars.

Trinidad's attorney Nicolás Medina conceded that Trinidad made at least $7 million plus over $2 million on PPV buys. However, they also had another agreement with King that sweetened the purse.

"Tito was well protected during the negotiation process and right after the fight we picked up both of our checks in full" said Mr. Medina. "Tito put on a great show and I think there were at least 15K people at the Garden. Furthermore, the people of Puerto Rico should be proud. Tito gave is all and has always carried the name of Puerto Rico high in the world."

As far as Roy Jones, his purse was not guaranteed but should be at least the $5 million dollars that was estimated prior to the bout

fightnews reports that it did over 500K & the article you posted doesn't mention any figure for PPV buys

[Chino]

Making this kind of money Titowould be stupid to pack it in now .
I think he boxed well last Sat . He didnt look like a shot fighter . If he just moved down to a weight where his power had an effect then I think he could relaunch his career . Someone mentioned Lacy and that would be interesting but I think he needs to get down to atlerast middle cuz these guys are just gonna walk through his shots and as weve seen without his power he doesnt have much .

That's right. Considering that he moved up in weight drastically and faced a bigger guy, he didn't look THAT BAD. Actually, I was somewhat happy with his performance. Good body shots, cutting the corners, jab, hooks, straights, etc. Of course, didn't do much against the bigger guy. Going back to at least middle could bring some competition to that weight.

[shza]

Where are you getting 400K PPV buys from? I don't see it mentioned in the article you posted and I'm not finding that figure anywhere online.

The article he posted said "over $2 million in PPV buys." Over $2M divided by $50 (price per buy) = over 400,000 buys.

[chamiley]

Where are you getting 400K PPV buys from? I don't see it mentioned in the article you posted and I'm not finding that figure anywhere online.

The article he posted said "over $2 million in PPV buys." Over $2M divided by $50 (price per buy) = over 400,000 buys.

uhhh 2 million divided by 50 gives 40,000

[Puya]

Can I have a link to the 400k buys please? That's ALOT of buys for a fight like this!

There you go!!
http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/box...ory?id=3212798

Actually the # is 500,000 buys

ANd makes me wonder if there hasn't been a UFC event that same day the numbers would have been bigger

[Bookkeeper]

If this is legit I find it pleasently surprising, Mayorga Vs Vargas did 300,000 PPV buy's so I don't find it out of this world that this fight could put up 4

[The Rookie Fan]

Where are you getting 400K PPV buys from? I don't see it mentioned in the article you posted and I'm not finding that figure anywhere online.

The article he posted said "over $2 million in PPV buys." Over $2M divided by $50 (price per buy) = over 400,000 buys.

uhhh 2 million divided by 50 gives 40,000

LOL that was a nice try on the calculations but it really does not work that way. You also have to add the pubs and other businesses that bought the fight. I saw a contract from a frind of mine that owns a pub and he had to pay 10 bucks per person that showed up. He had 90 people in the place, thats 900 bucks right there. And his place aint that big or popular.

[albsur2006]

Can I have a link to the 400k buys please? That's ALOT of buys for a fight like this!

ESPN is now reporting that the fight actually grossed over 500K buys.

[El Gamo]

Can I have a link to the 400k buys please? That's ALOT of buys for a fight like this!

ESPN is now reporting that the fight actually grossed over 500K buys.

Dam man,fights like this are getting 500 k buys an difhts like Rafa v Isreal 1 can't even fill the arenas. Shit like this getting 500k and fights like Pavlik and Miranda can't fill arenas.

[Kev]

Where are you getting 400K PPV buys from? I don't see it mentioned in the article you posted and I'm not finding that figure anywhere online.

The article he posted said "over $2 million in PPV buys." Over $2M divided by $50 (price per buy) = over 400,000 buys.

uhhh 2 million divided by 50 gives 40,000

LOL that was a nice try on the calculations but it really does not work that way. You also have to add the pubs and other businesses that bought the fight. I saw a contract from a frind of mine that owns a pub and he had to pay 10 bucks per person that showed up. He had 90 people in the place, thats 900 bucks right there. And his place aint that big or popular.

How do they possibly know how many people that turned up at every pub? There's no possible way they could know other than to have enforcers in every pub across America, and the costs of that would outweigh several hundred times the amount of money they would make from any PPV

[The Rookie Fan]

Where are you getting 400K PPV buys from? I don't see it mentioned in the article you posted and I'm not finding that figure anywhere online.

The article he posted said "over $2 million in PPV buys." Over $2M divided by $50 (price per buy) = over 400,000 buys.

uhhh 2 million divided by 50 gives 40,000

LOL that was a nice try on the calculations but it really does not work that way. You also have to add the pubs and other businesses that bought the fight. I saw a contract from a frind of mine that owns a pub and he had to pay 10 bucks per person that showed up. He had 90 people in the place, thats 900 bucks right there. And his place aint that big or popular.

How do they possibly know how many people that turned up at every pub? There's no possible way they could know other than to have enforcers in every pub across America, and the costs of that would outweigh several hundred times the amount of money they would make from any PPV

Well I guess there is no way they could know for certain. But in this case he charged 10 bucks for entery. Everything he made at the door goes to Don King everything made at the bar goes to the owner. Yes the owner can cheat and say there was less amount of people than there actueally was. But there is also a minimum amount you have to pay. Don't know that number for sure.