De la Hoya-Mayweather over 2 million buys!!!

Just kidding fuckers!! With such sadness in the air...

When will the figures be released...geez, with such technology these days, you kow the internets...

 

Doesn't it usually take a week or so to get the numbers?

 

I would think definitely before saturday...ld:

If Mayorga did a million...

 

Probably Friday.

 

Mayorga actually comes to fight though...thats usually a selling point.

 

It did 2.15 Million buys actually. ::

 

Well its no longer a joke. It really did do over 2 million. Its on Fightnews.

 

Amazing.

 

Wow.

I expected it to do around the same numbers as DLH-Trinidad, maybe a little more, but below Tyson's best PPV numbers.

 

Imagine how many PPV's they could've sold with a stacked undercard and a better price.

Oscar can still draw, that's for sure. Although I doubt a rematch would pull in anything close to these numbers.

I just hope Floyd doesn't get any misconceptions that he's the reason for the buyrate.

TFK

 

The fight was also huge in Canada. I'm sure there are a couple hundred thousand buys from up here too.

The number in inflated though when comparing it to Lewis/Tyson and especially Oscar/Tito. I know I didn't have the ability to purchase PPV on my TV back them... I'm sure the amount of people who have digital cable or a dish has gone up HUGE over the past five years.

 

Even before the numbers were released you better believe Floyd already expected to be paid 8 figures in the future, no matter the opponent.

 

Maybe he is better off retiring, then.

TFK

 

Nice. Now wouldn't it have been awesome if people had actually enjoyed the card?:: The undercard was possibly the shittest in ppv history, and the main event was lackluster with typical Oscar controversy. Doesn't help the future of boxing's ppvs.

 

True. Just imagine Mosley vs. Margarito/Mayorga/Baldomir as undercard

add Larios vs. Escobedo to fill in the third spot

 

Yeah, couldn't cheap ass Oscar and Richard have shelled out a little less from that $50 million paid for promoting the bout for a better undercard than Juarez-Hernandez?

 

that should keep G going another couple of years.

 

Translation: Rematch

 

I think the luster is gone from any rematch, but it is probably the best bet for the biggest payday for both fighters.

But they won't do anywhere near the number they did the first time.

TFK

 

Hopefully HBO doesn't take this as a sign that they need to put on more ppvs.::
But I can see them doing more fight buildup shows like that 24/7. I think at the end of the day, a very very large amount of credit goes to Floyd. If he didn't play his bad guy role so well and talk so much sh*t, they wouldn't have seen this kind of number. Afterall, DLH vs Mayorga scored 900,000 ppv buys with ALOT of hype to that with Mayorga playing a meaner and more menacing bad-guy role than even Floyd.

 

Maybe, but the rematch will still do over a million easily. DLH already has about a million buys locked in automatically for a ppv just via his name alone.::

 

65 dollars for a shitty undercard and boring main event, i need a refund

 

Unfortunately, I think that will happen.

 

A stacked undercard wouldn't have helped anything. Hardcore fans already were going to buy it and casual fans could give a shit about the undercard. Oh and BTW, of course Floyd helped sell the PPV, don;t be silly. Sure, ODLH was the main drawing point but Floyd hyped himself up as the villain very well.

 

Sort of. A better undercard would have made a difference. Jack didn't order it, for instance. I was out of town and only ordered it because my brother-in-law wanted to get it. Maybe only the really hardcore fans were so turned off and not just the big fans?

Agree about Floyd helping. Of course he helped. His status as a p4p fighter and his willingness to be a dickhead during the promo all helped. In many ways, it was just a perfect storm for a ppv fight. As others have pointed out, there was no recent ppvs to speak of, they spent a LONG time promoting this fight and not bickering over $$...etc.

What this ppv also did is fuck over future ppvs. Thanks to that shitty undercard and a fairly dull main event.

 

Shit, it's incredible. Floyd is way more popular than I thought... After all Sly may be right, Floyd, as some sort of supervillain, may be the face of boxing now. I severely underrated how popular this PPV would be... Honestly I thought it wouldn't do much better than DLH-Mayorga. It was well promoted though, gotta give props to them for that.

 

If that's the case, then why did Mike Tyson still draw a record-breaking 2 million buys against Lewis after completely disgracing himself and the sport of boxing a few years earlier in Holyfield 2, and ripping off the public completely?:dunno:

 

Don't disregard the 24/7 HBO shows. I believe that build up show helped the PPVs significantly, especially for casual fans of the sport.

 

god. now i know i'm cynical. baked into my anticipation for a rematch is the idea that we'll get to see them fight for real now, knowing that they took it easy on each other the first time around in order to encourage the rematch.

 

Conspiracy theories?

I'm a cynic and all too but I don't for a second believe these pre-arranged scenarios for Oscar's fights with B-Hop and now Floyd.