Dan Rafael: "Cotto-Mayorga 200K PPV buys, could reach 250K"

[ThePrince]

The last people I'd go to for the numbers is Top Rank. However, I can see this fight topping out at 200k. Showtime did one hell of a job promoting it . I'm pretty sure they'll have better luck with Pacquiao-Mosley but I'm beginning to smell bad news in the air for Bob Arum. Should be interesting.

The hate never stops with you does it?

Name one HBO PPV fight in the last 2 years not involving Pacquiao or Mayweather that reached 200 K buys. Then re-read your post and tell me if you can spot what the problem is with your 'argument'. I'll wait.

But yeah, Arum is in trouble with Pacquiao-Mosley (easy 1 mil, wouldn't be surprised if it topped 1.5 with the promotions), Cotto-Margarito II (first fight did 500K w/ no reality series) coming up in May-July and CBS pushing at least one of those. How ever will he manage?

[ThePrince]

Lol there goes the "Cotto is the 3rd best PPV seller in boxing". 3rd has to be Marquez or Mosley. Even Hopkins can sell 200k PPV's and he's known as a fighter who can't really draw PPV's.

So much fail in this post, where should I begin?

150K for Marquez-Diaz II in a fight of the year redux.

100-130K for Mosley-Mora.

135K for Hopkins-Jones II.

200-250K for Cotto-Mayorga (a blatant tuneup for Margarito in the summer).

Tell me which one of these is not like the others. Take your time.

[gopi11]

I thought it would do abut 300-400k, but its not much lower than I thought. Its still a very solid payday for Cotto, he probably made 3-5 million for a tune-up, not bad at all.

Cotto's purse was 1M, plus some on the PPV upside. He'd be lucky to hit 2M, just saying...