Comments Thread For: Mayweather-Pacquiao Shatters Record, 4.4 Million Buys

[doom_specialist]

Doubtful after what was served up

If Wilder keeps impressing, I think he could become big in the US. His power and speed give him a very good puncher's chance to beat Wladimir Klitschko IMO

[Easy Work.]

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LMAO truly hillarious post, trolling or very very delusional

[Jimmy 23]

That face you make...

[Lou Cipher]

Pacquiao's legacy is cemented with these numbers along with being the first fighter in history to earn a 9 figure paycheck in one fight. Fighter of the decade. Most exciting fighter of our era. Holder of the ALL TIME PPV record.

[Scipio2009]

Doesn't it take way longer to get all the numbers

This seems to be the initial estimate that the parties involved (Showtime/HBO) are comfortably able state; the actual final number likely won't be all the way counted until around this time next year.

Kind of like how presidential election results are handled in the US (people cast their ballots throughout the day, polling places typically close 8pm local time, the actual counting of the ballots start soon after that, and then once a threshold of ballots have been counted [in some states that could be less than 5% of the actual vote], historical trends/voting patterns are used to predict a "projected winner", with the actual ballots being counted over the next 3-5 days (in some instances taking weeks to months to count) to declare the official winner and vote count.

From the numbers that they've gotten over the last 10 days, Showtime/HBO believe the tally to be around 4.4m PPV buys; when the final count is done, the actual number may end up being 4.623456m PPV buys.

[cabalas]

It almost feels like a bad thing because it's 4.4 million people who paid for a garbage fight and are less likely to do it again. I hope the Canelo fight helped half those folks find faith in boxing again.

Absolutely true. Many people, including myself, expected more of the May 2nd card. The supporting fights were less than average and Floyd-Manny was a big deception. The expensive price wasn't justified. Luckily, there was a much better fight (more exciting and with more action) on May 9th and the best thing is that it didn't cost me additional money. It is always rewarding to feel that someone delivers a good service in exchange of your money (in case of Alvarez and Kirkland it goes with the price paid for been an HBO subscriber).
And now, I can see a problem with the voracity of promoters and TV networks: the bar has been raised in terms of PPV cost and they know that fans would end accepting paying more no matter how good or bad a boxing event could be.

[Divine Hammer]

4.4 million people paid good money to watch someone play tag while another guy tries to push the action and make the fight somewhat exciting!!! I'm sure almost all of them regret having bought into that joke fight.

[waiseguy510]

ALL MAJOR websites rescored the fight and saw Pacquiao winning. Deal with it.

Even floyd said "He was injured so the fight didnt count. I'll wait until he is a 100% so he can give me the rematch to prove myself"

Wahahahahaha Pacquiao at the beginning of the post fight press conference: "I tried my best buy my best wasn't good enough"

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

Pacquiao's legacy is cemented with these numbers along with being the first fighter in history to earn a 9 figure paycheck in one fight. Fighter of the decade. Most exciting fighter of our era. Holder of the ALL TIME PPV record.

Arum gave him a 25 million dollar check while Floyd received a 100million.
Manny is getting screwed

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

Absolutely true. Many people, including myself, expected more of the May 2nd card. The supporting fights were less than average and Floyd-Manny was a big deception. The expensive price wasn't justified. Luckily, there was a much better fight (more exciting and with more action) on May 9th and the best thing is that it didn't cost me additional money. It is always rewarding to feel that someone delivers a good service in exchange of your money (in case of Alvarez and Kirkland it goes with the price paid for been an HBO subscriber).
And now, I can see a problem with the voracity of promoters and TV networks: the bar has been raised in terms of PPV cost and they know that fans would end accepting paying more no matter how good or bad a boxing event could be.

Loved every second of it. 48-0
If you want boxing watch Floyd
If you want a disgusting mismatch then watch Canelo his tickets cost like 5$ anyway. Great bargain for broke people like you.