Pacquiao-Margarito officially gets 1.15 million buys
According to Kevin Iole, the final numbers are in, and the fight between Manny Pacquiao and Antonio Margarito topped 1.15 million buys. This is well over the 700,000 buys generated by Pacquiao-Clottey, but fewer than the 1.25 million generated by Pacquiao-Cotto and the 1.4 million generated by Mayweather-Mosley.
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Good number, but
what I don’t understand is why each PPV’s estimate in recent memory is significantly greater than the actual figure. It seems that the promoters would be more interested in complying with the “under-promise over-deliver” principle.
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Proving once again that notoriety = money....
Most fight fans would not spend a dime to watch Van Gogh paint 'Sunflowers', but they would fill Yankee Stadium to see him cut off his ear. (Bill Nack)
Interesting question
Would Arum make more money with this past fight and a Cotto rematch than in a Mayweather – Pacquiao fight?
"The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register."
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Someone told me that Pac’s fights in the Phillipines are not PPV… maybe that’s why he doesn’t do as well as we think he should be doing. If we factored in all the people who tune in to watch in the Phillipines, it would probably be a lot bigger. But I don’t know… maybe they are in PPV and this person was talking out of their you know what…
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the ppv #‘s are always only domestic ppv’s … as well i believe that all pac fights used to be free but now are not in the Philippines. i could be wrong about that though that what i’ve been told. but either way those numbers i do not believe are factored in to this total
The numbers here are indeed reflective of but one element of the total 'buy' side for this fight.
Part of the reason we only see these numbers is because they are not really our business…in the public sense. They belong to the promoters….and on rare occasions, the fighters as well. There are many contracts in which the promoters benefit but the fighters do not. One example….Many of the international broadcast revenues rest in the domain and pockets of the former
I watched the fight for free.
The thing they do is they tape-delay it as soon as the broadcast starts, this way they can ram whatever four sponsors they’ve got lined up down your throat during the main event. It’s seriously funny, they take 10-15 minutes worth of commercials between rounds sometimes during Pacquiao’s fights. I’m not exaggerating. Usually it’s around five minutes, with a few tens sprinkled in, but when it’s a quicker fight, they pour it on.
As to the number of viewers here,
it’s not joke when they say that crime plummets to absolute zero during Pacquiao’s fights. Not just in his hometown, but in the entire COUNTRY.
You go out on the street during his fights, and it’s like a ghost town, anywhere you go. Mainstreets generally have one or two taxis on them, and those guys are obviously listening on the radio. Everything else is shut down.
You have to see it to appreciate it. It’s really wild, like a post-apocalyptic picture of a town after the massive viral outbreak wiped out the humans. Only it’s like that in the entire country.
Fights are shown for free here but you have to brace yourself for a deluge of ads. Big fights (meaning Pac fights) are shown live in theaters, bars and local PPV cable if you don’t want the ads.
by erasedcitizen on Nov 23, 2010 6:51 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
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