Pacquiao vs Algieri only 300,000 PPV Buys!!!

[Kirkland Laing]

All the sources and articles I've seen say it did 300-400k buys.

If Pac did 900 buys with Algieri he truly is the greatest draw in boxing history.

Arum is known to pump up his numbers too, so I'm thinking it's closer to 300k than 400k.

Reading it again it's a prediction Arum made a month before the fight happened.

I think HBO have stopped releasing PPV numbers as well so we'll probably never know the real number. Highly unlikely Manny against a nonentity fighting in Macau does anywhere near Floyd numbers though.

[mikeeod]

I said from the beginning that this was not a PPV worthy fight. The card sucked and the main event was never in doubt. Floyd vs Maidana wasn't PPV worthy either, as Maidana hasn't ever beaten an elite fighter. Definitely proves Floyd's drawing power but highlights how bad the fans get ripped off. Hagler vs Hearns was on HBO. Boxing has hit its tipping point with the fans and after Floyd n Manny retire I expect promoters to scale PPVs back. Holyfield vs Tyson was like $40 or something, n that was a mega fight. Pac vs Algieri n Floyd vs Maidana for almost double that?!? Criminal.