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

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

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.

48-0 Deal With It. Pacfraud aka as Acne Back was exposed.

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

Only people mad are the ones who thought PacFraud was actually going to win lol poor souls. Maybe Pacfraud can spend some that money to get that steroid acne off his back, it was a horrible site to see

[Scipio2009]

So this fight made a billion in revenue.

Well damn

Not sure how you get to a billion, but whatevs (+$400m on PPV, ~$75m at the live gate, ~$35m for international broacasting rights, ~$15m for event sponsorships, ~$7m for closed circuit on MGM properties, ~$7m from restaurants/bars across the country, ~$2m in event merchandise, etc. a ton of money but a pretty long way from a billion).

sidenote: saw the Khan-Brook bit in the carryover, and would remind you that Khan has had three defeats, two of which where he was stopped, one by getting KTFO. To that you can also add that he was less than impressive against Molina and Diaz.

Kell Brook (who's first two years as a pro were spent in 15 fights against **** competition; drastically inflating the comparative win-loss count, since Khan was only subject to that for his first four fights, but that'd deter the meme) has basically throttled every opponent he's ever been put in with, sans the first Carson Jones fight. To that you can add he's a world champion and has been able to build his own name without the luster of being a former Olympic medalist.

you pull the "bum fights" and their resumes aren't all that far off from each other (Khan having the general better resume but not performing up to level in enough fights, while Brook being questioned how 'special' he is really is, due to performing stellar over so-so competition0.

[krazyn8tive]

Great numbers. Hopefully some of those fans stick around and become hardcore fans.

That fight wasn't the one to do that sadly.

[Scipio2009]

It takes a lot shorter to count to 4.4 million than it does 800k or 450k.

It's easier and quicker to project 4.4m (when the final number will likely be between 4.45m and 4.65m) than it is to project 800k(when the actual count is likely to be 835k) of 450k(when the actual count is likely to be 425k).

All numbers at this point are trend guesses, and will likely be the case for the next 6 months (while the bulk of the actual numbers are coming through).

[New England]

kiss the rings.

that's getting close to half a billion in ppv revenue.


i wonder how much the fighters will make.

[b Murphington]

The title of this article should be, "4.4 mil people pissed off." Oh well. Mayweather is laughing at everyone saying, "See you in September losers!"

[waiseguy510]

I applaud not Pacquiao, but his ******ed die hard fans.

Right when I thought they realized they've been duped by supporting a B level fighter for most of his career, they storm back with excuses.

Pacquiao was schooled, looked lost in the ring.

48-0

[Scipio2009]

And over 4 million of those were unhappy. Not cause Mayweather won but because he made it a **** fight. Part of that number were true boxing fans that wanted a memorable fight.

... so Pacquiao, throwing basically half the punches of what he's been known to throw in his many other fights, didn't make it a **** fight?

Mayweather was always going to be Mayweather; fight off the backfoot, try to walk you into traps, use his defense/mind to negate you, make the most of his success behind capitalizing on your mistakes, be just busy enough to secure the round, never "go for broke", etc. Mayweather fighting his fight beats Pacquiao 10-2/11-1, without much hassle, as anyone who spoke on the fight could've told you.

Pacquiao was supposed to change that; he was supposed to have dynamite speed, dynamite power, be awkward, have success against Mayweather for being a lefty, and being more than willing to "go out on his shield", if that was needed to try and win the fight.

Pacquiao did none of that; he'd seemingly bet the farm on trying to box Mayweather from range, walking him into a massive left hand shot (a la Shane Mosley), and Maweather didn't go for the bait. Pacquiao didn't hold up his end of the bargain.

[marcogman]

Denial -- traditionally the first of the five stages of grief. Unfortunately, fans of #48 like you preceded denial with blaming (shoulder injury).

Nope! facts ARE!! Facts! Undeniably!

LOL! Keepy trying to convince. Ain't happening. Manny clearly won!