Pacquiao vs Marquez: Closed Circuit Numbers Come in Big
by Scott Christ on Nov 17, 2011 5:14 PM EST
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The closed circuit numbers for last Saturday's Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez fight have come in, and they're pretty terrific.
The Nevada commission reports that 11,504 closed circuit seats were sold, pulling in another $575,000 for the event's revenue total.
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Those figures mean that the closed circuit for Pacquiao vs Marquez, as Kevin Iole of Yahoo! said on Twitter, crushed the live gate figures for the October 15 fight in Los Angeles between Bernard Hopkins and Chad Dawson. Both fights were HBO pay-per-view offerings and considered "big fights," but Hopkins vs Dawson failed on every level. Pacquiao vs Marquez, thus far, has been a big hit on every level, and the type of controversy here (scoring in a close fight) is definitely much better than a two-round injury ending.
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The pay-per-view numbers will come in soon for the fight. After the pitiful showing by Hopkins vs Dawson (an estimated 40,000 buys), this one should be much better news for those involved. Whether it tops the reported 1.25 million for Mayweather vs Ortiz in September is another story, but right now it appears as though Top Rank and the fighters are looking at a very successful show overall.
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Eh its more like the sports books in Vegas. They close off the big floor in the sports books and sell the seats for a certain amount of money. I think the feed is not exactly the HBO feed (could be wrong here), but it is slightly different. So the tickets are $50 each which is slightly less than the individual PPVs.
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by Waldo Rastel on Nov 18, 2011 1:42 AM EST up reply actions
Might be the promoter feed in Vegas, but I do know HBO does their own closed-circuit events.
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by Scott Christ on Nov 18, 2011 1:57 AM EST up reply actions
I’d assume that most bars and smaller places are just paying the sixty bucks for a PPV like you do at home (which I doubt is strictly legit), so I think the closed circuit figures apply to those official, above the board showings in large public venues like casinos and movie theaters, and where you pay to get in. The local theater at the mall here used to show some of the bigger boxing PPVs for 20 bucks, but they haven’t bothered since Mosley/Mora, when I was the ONLY person who showed up. An usher came in and watched a few minutes, but other than that I sat alone in a huge theater for the whole thing….
How do they Count PPV buys in the UK?
This is the first time i got a PPV buy for a Pacquiao fight since they were on for free last year on SkySports.
Nobody ever really considered Hopking-Dawson big exactly.
It would have done decent tv ratings for sure but it wasn’t a fight anyone was willing to pay for. Also, does anyone know for certain what closed circuit is referring to in this case.
It sucks promoters can never be bothered to count the international buys for PPV events. They’re so small minded they only ever count HBO or Showtime. With total international buys counted these events would be closer to 2 million buys. This is what the UFC does to make themselves seem like they’re on par with boxing.
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