Iole: Oscar-Manny on track to do 1.5 million buys

by SC on Dec 10, 2008 11:34 AM EST in News Analysis Comment 4 comments

Yahoo's Kevin Iole touched on the expected PPV numbers for the Oscar de la Hoya-Manny Pacquiao fight in his latest mailbag:

Indications are that the pay-per-view result will be around 1.5 million buys, which is a phenomenal number. It’s a tribute not only to De La Hoya’s ability to sell, but it points out the widespread popularity that Pacquiao has obtained. This guy isn’t popular just among his countrymen in the Philippines.

Some people were talking two million last week, but I said on MMA Nation with Luke Thomas on Saturday evening before the fight I expected 1.3-1.5 million, and that's looking likely.

Don't be fooled by the fact that Oscar's fight with Floyd Mayweather did 2.4 million; this number is a great, great success. For one thing, Pacquiao came into this known, you have to remember, mostly to just diehard boxing fans. Mayweather, an American, was certainly more widely known in the States. It was also a far better economy in May 2007.

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DLH v. Pac-man is the rare example of a boxing event crossing over into MMA land. I spoke with a couple of MMA fighters and at least one of them dropped the cash to see Pac. I was impressed with that. Generally, I think of fans only moving in a one-way stream towards MMA but I guess that isn’t categorically true. MMA fans, and maybe more competitors, know Freddie Roach because of his relationship with Anderson Silva.

On a totally unrelated note, I really admire and cherish seeing a relationship like Roach’s with Pac, that’s something really special about a one on one sport; a really dynamic trust that’s been established. I remember B-Hop had an old trainer for years and I could really sense the extent of that relationship also. During the Trinidad fight, B-Hop and the trainer(can’t recall his name, black guy with white hair) would exchange very few words between the rounds but seemed totally at ease with their communication. And….then B-Hop sued him! I guess good things don’t last forever.

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