PH MY GOSH-HATTON DID 1.2MILLION IN THE UK?!?!?!

[Kel]

Sal made an awesome point about the cost too,£15 compared to what,$50 which is like £35 right? Quite a significant difference.

$50 is £25

But we do pay £15 for a PPV in the UK

Nice we get something cheap in this hole. We pay the equivelent of $2.10 a litre of petrol.

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I'd be very suprised if these figures were that high, I mean the entire population of the UK is 60 million and I don't think for a minute that over a million of them bought the PPV

That's 1 in 6 of the entire population. Now considering that half the population are women, a third are probably under 18, a couple million mentally disabled, a million gay, and around half the remaining figure completely uninterested in boxing then you are already left with not that many.

So of the remaining eligible potential buyers I guess the majority would have watched it with at least one other person bringing the total down still further.

1.2 million INDIVIDUAL buys? Sorry but I'm not buying that.

As someone stated above, its only 1 in 60 of uk citizens bought the fight based upon these figures. You might think this is unbelievable still but remember 1 billion people watched arsenal-man united in a normal english premier league game a few months back, thats 1 in 6 people in the world. We create the most exciting sports events in the world and people tune in and thats a fact. Maybe thats because our sports dont just beat everyone in america alone and then consider themselves world champions...but maybe im digressing...

Honestly I really take most of these numbers with a HUGE grain of salt. There is no way in hell 1 billion people sat down and watched the Arsenal Man Utd game no matter what the figures say.

I live in the UK and I didn't watch the game. I also know for certain that my brother, mum, dad, gran, niece, 3 nephews, my brothers girlfriend etc didn't watch it either.

Who the hell invents these stupid figures I have no idea but they are just dumb. 1 in 6 of EVERY person in the world watched the Arsenal Man Utd game

Come on let's be serious for a minute. Probably 3 out 6 people in the world don't even have access to a television set so they have to be discounted.

A third will be children and at least 80% of them can be discounted. Factor in all the elderly, females, people working, not interested in football etc there is no way possible that a sixth of the world's population watched that match.

We could quite easily do a test here.

As this is an all male sporting based forum for people in the Western world with internet and tv access for these figures to be correct I would guess about 90% of our forum members must have watched this match.

Well let's see how many actually watched it? I would bet no more than 1 in 20 of all the people who are registered members here watched the Man Utd Aresnal game and yet the people here are those MOST likely to watch it.

The viewing figures are just plain made up imo.

To be fair Bilbo, given the fact that you live in Torquay (i think) most people you're likely to know are far too old be staying up until 4am to watch the fight....and far too senile to understand the importance of Arsenal vs Man Utd

Am just pulling ya leg mate, i agree the viewing figures for most sporting events seem a little bit on the made up high side.