Mayweather's PPV numbers are looking good

[Truth]

No way this fight did a million buys.

[Gandalf]

No way this fight did a million buys.

Agreed. I will be very surprised if it did.

[brucelee]

The story is probably not true. The link is dead and I can't see this estimated PPV numbers from happening.

My estimate runs around 500-600 buys.

[killersheep]

All I can say for sure from my experience is this is the first PPV boxing event ALL of my casual boxing fan friends bought since Hatton/PBF. It was weird having people bring up boxing to me saying things like "I hope pee pee mouth wins." or "What the hell was Mayweather's dad saying on 24/7"

I hope it did do that well, because it shows a growing interest in boxing and it actually created a few potential story lines the general public can grab on to. This story line going forward projects more interest into the Cotto/Pacquiao matchup and puts Mosley back into public attention.

[Youngblood]

All I can say for sure from my experience is this is the first PPV boxing event ALL of my casual boxing fan friends bought since Hatton/PBF. It was weird having people bring up boxing to me saying things like "I hope pee pee mouth wins." or "What the hell was Mayweather's dad saying on 24/7"

I hope it did do that well, because it shows a growing interest in boxing and it actually created a few potential story lines the general public can grab on to. This story line going forward projects more interest into the Cotto/Pacquiao matchup and puts Mosley back into public attention.

this.

same deal with the friends on both buying it and talking about it. my friends are all young and think PBF is the shit. They are asking me questions too about pac and stuff. The questions are borderline retarded haha, but genuinely good for our sport as there seems to be a renewed interest.

[killersheep]

All I can say for sure from my experience is this is the first PPV boxing event ALL of my casual boxing fan friends bought since Hatton/PBF. It was weird having people bring up boxing to me saying things like "I hope pee pee mouth wins." or "What the hell was Mayweather's dad saying on 24/7"

I hope it did do that well, because it shows a growing interest in boxing and it actually created a few potential story lines the general public can grab on to. This story line going forward projects more interest into the Cotto/Pacquiao matchup and puts Mosley back into public attention.

this.

same deal with the friends on both buying it and talking about it. my friends are all young and think PBF is the shit. They are asking me questions too about pac and stuff. The questions are borderline retarded haha, but genuinely good for our sport as there seems to be a renewed interest.

My favorite question is "Are Martyweather and Pooquino in the same weight class?". I guess the answer is "yes they both fight at Medium Light Welterweight which is 144, if they even meet up the Diamond Belt will be on the line"
"What's the Diamond Belt?"
"God only knows"

[knodaledge]

All I can say for sure from my experience is this is the first PPV boxing event ALL of my casual boxing fan friends bought since Hatton/PBF. It was weird having people bring up boxing to me saying things like "I hope pee pee mouth wins." or "What the hell was Mayweather's dad saying on 24/7"

I hope it did do that well, because it shows a growing interest in boxing and it actually created a few potential story lines the general public can grab on to. This story line going forward projects more interest into the Cotto/Pacquiao matchup and puts Mosley back into public attention.

this.

same deal with the friends on both buying it and talking about it. my friends are all young and think PBF is the shit. They are asking me questions too about pac and stuff. The questions are borderline retarded haha, but genuinely good for our sport as there seems to be a renewed interest.

My favorite question is "Are Martyweather and Pooquino in the same weight class?". I guess the answer is "yes they both fight at Medium Light Welterweight which is 144, if they even meet up the Diamond Belt will be on the line"
"What's the Diamond Belt?"
"God only knows"

hahaha. The one I usually get is "MERRYweather".

But everyone I know ordered the fight or watched it somewhere. Even the MMA fighters who train boxing at my gym were more interested in the boxing event than in the UFC event.

With that said, I figure Mayweather's fight did better numbers than everyone thought. And when all is said & done I think he'll have a very good argument for being a draw. I also feel his numbers could rival those of Pac/Cotto. But 1.6 seems a little high. I'm hoping it's true. Would love to see some people eat crow, but you know how some promotional companies operate.

[killersheep]

this.

same deal with the friends on both buying it and talking about it. my friends are all young and think PBF is the shit. They are asking me questions too about pac and stuff. The questions are borderline retarded haha, but genuinely good for our sport as there seems to be a renewed interest.

My favorite question is "Are Martyweather and Pooquino in the same weight class?". I guess the answer is "yes they both fight at Medium Light Welterweight which is 144, if they even meet up the Diamond Belt will be on the line"
"What's the Diamond Belt?"
"God only knows"

hahaha. The one I usually get is "MERRYweather".

But everyone I know ordered the fight or watched it somewhere. Even the MMA fighters who train boxing at my gym were more interested in the boxing event than in the UFC event.

With that said, I figure Mayweather's fight did better numbers than everyone thought. And when all is said & done I think he'll have a very good argument for being a draw. I also feel his numbers could rival those of Pac/Cotto. But 1.6 seems a little high. I'm hoping it's true. Would love to see some people eat crow, but you know how some promotional companies operate.

I would love to see PAC/Cotto do equally as high numbers, I like it when boxing PPV's do well. Boxing has the potential to take back some marketshare big time in 2010.

[Youngblood]

"What's the Diamond Belt?"
"God only knows"

awesome.

[JT Rock]

I would like to see an official source to confirm the accuracy

If it did anywhere close to a million buys there will be a whole lot of guys eating crow, especially the ones that complained about Floyd ripping off the public by coming in at 146 or they feel ripped over this fight being a farce or Floyd is a draw in his own mind.

The most comical ones lately have been guys around here saying Floyd rips them off and this fight was BS etc.. But these seem to be the same people who like most of us Pander for fight links and free streams.

So its beyond my comprehension that someone who dosent buy fight tickets or cable subscription, PPV's can possibly be feeling ripped off in the 1st place. in reality you have invested $0

So if this is true apparently close to a million people were quite happy to see Mayweather perform

[fan johnny]

I have a quite a few Filipino acquaintances from work at at my son's school and surprisingly discovered they purchased the fight because they had never see Mayweather before and wanted to see him fight.

[Gandalf]

I would like to see an official source to confirm the accuracy

If it did anywhere close to a million buys there will be a whole lot of guys eating crow, especially the ones that complained about Floyd ripping off the public by coming in at 146 or they feel ripped over this fight being a farce or Floyd is a draw in his own mind.

The most comical ones lately have been guys around here saying Floyd rips them off and this fight was BS etc.. But these seem to be the same people who like most of us Pander for fight links and free streams.

So its beyond my comprehension that someone who dosent buy fight tickets or cable subscription, PPV's can possibly be feeling ripped off in the 1st place. in reality you have invested $0

So if this is true apparently close to a million people were quite happy to see Mayweather perform

So would I, because this million number sounds like pure propaganda or should I say...utter bullshit.

Nobody was happy with this Mayweather crap no matter how long you try to pretend that it was something meaningful.

JT, I like you as a poster. But you are indeed a true Mayweather nuthugger.

[JT Rock]

I would like to see an official source to confirm the accuracy

If it did anywhere close to a million buys there will be a whole lot of guys eating crow, especially the ones that complained about Floyd ripping off the public by coming in at 146 or they feel ripped over this fight being a farce or Floyd is a draw in his own mind.

The most comical ones lately have been guys around here saying Floyd rips them off and this fight was BS etc.. But these seem to be the same people who like most of us Pander for fight links and free streams.

So its beyond my comprehension that someone who dosent buy fight tickets or cable subscription, PPV's can possibly be feeling ripped off in the 1st place. in reality you have invested $0

So if this is true apparently close to a million people were quite happy to see Mayweather perform

So would I, because this million number sounds like pure propaganda or should I say...utter bullshit.

Nobody was happy with this Mayweather crap no matter how long you try to pretend that it was something meaningful.

JT, I like you as a poster. But you are indeed a true Mayweather nuthugger.

So lets get this straight Miles, if Mayweather Marquez did around 1 million buys you will still claim NOBODY was happy with this quote unquote MAYWEATHER CRAP? You ever hear the expression the proof is in the pudding Miles? So you can be bitter all you want dude but it looks like quite a few signs are pointing to Mayweather/Marquez near or over 1million buys.

I like how I am a nuthugger even though I prefaced my post with "I want to see an accurate source"

[AdamGB]

I don't know about that miles... boxing fans may have been skeptical about the weights etc but this is the first fight I've seen none boxing fans talking a lot about since hatton/pacman.

If Floyd-ODLH did 2.4 then it's not that I'm skeptical but to read some of your posts - it's as if Dana White has taken over half of the accounts on here.

[JT Rock]

I don't know about that miles... boxing fans may have been skeptical about the weights etc but this is the first fight I've seen none boxing fans talking a lot about since hatton/pacman.

If Floyd-ODLH did 2.4 then it's not that I'm skeptical but to read some of your posts - it's as if Dana White has taken over half of the accounts on here.

Miles is ornery has been for over a year now, been lighting fires everywhere with a chip on his shoulders, so I just take him as a self loathing bitter human being. The nice respectful Miles that was here when most of us joined a few years ago, dosent really exist anymore