Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports reports that the rematch between Floyd Mayweather and Marcos Maidana did 925,000 PPV buys.
Mayweather PPV buys under Showtime contract:
Mayweather-Guerrero, May 4, 2013: 1 million PPV buys (although disputed by ESPN’s Dan Rafael (who indicated that the buys were under 1M) and Showtime which stated that the buys were over 1 million)
Mayweather-Alvarez, September 14, 2013: 2.2 million PPV buys
Mayweather-Maidana I, May 3, 2014: 900,000 PPV buys
Mayweather-Maidana II, September 13, 2014: 925,000 PPV buys
Assuming that the Guerrero fight hit 1 million PPV buys, Mayweather’s average for his 4 fights are slightly over 1.25M PPV buys. This, of course, was largely due to the Canelo fight.
The news comes despite Showtime advising that it would not reveal PPV buys after Mayweather’s May fight. But, this may have been a reaction to the beef Showtime has with Dan Rafael of ESPN.
As for the live gate and attendance, RingTV reports (via NAC release) that gate was at $14,899,150 with 14,859 tickets being sold and 1,080 tickets going unused.
Payout Perspective:
Interesting lead from the Yahoo! article which focuses on Mayweather’s comments about Ray Rice but despite Mayweather’s persona outside of the ring, last Saturday’s event shows that he still can be a draw although maybe not a 1M PPV draw all by himself. Based on his fights under the Showtime contract, one might infer that the quality/popularity of the opponent is needed for the event to do big numbers. Perhaps the Guerrero fight was an anomaly, but based on PPV buys, the Canelo fight was the big success under the Showtime contract. Certainly, the buzz and run-up to the event was not as big as “The One” last September yet it did better than May’s fight with Maidana. It could be the fact that people had a little more info on Maidana. In my opinion, I think the free fights aired on CBS Sports Net (including their first fight from May) helped.
A horrible wrestling performance from Mayweather.
Mayweather is pricing himself out, tickets are way to much, ppv is over priced and lousy performance. They need to rethink some things for a nice successful ending.
Kahn or manny would be great. Lets ee, also get ready for his desperate comeback in a few years lol
here ya go Daaruk bahaha..
Not including Froch Groves 2 wich did a million buys ouch!!
UFC ppv Buys for 2014 2,095,000.
Boxing ppv buys for 2014 3,275,000.
Boxing has a nice lead, If you add froch its double piss boy D!
Year isn’t over yet what does the UFC have? Oh wait I hear mexico is stirring thing up bahahaha. What a moron you are. A nit picking aderall junkie you are D! hope my math is correct bahahahahah go take a pill
All it too for boxing to get a lead in the last decade was all the UFC stars not fighting while Boxings biggests stars fight two times that year.
That is hardly worth waiting 7 years for LMAO!
Where would boxing be without FMJ or Pacman numbers? We see what the UFC is without it’s two biggest draws. Drop FMJ numbers and compare the totals!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! SAL YOU FUCKING IDIOT!!! Do you know what double means? Learn how to count you stupid fuck!
Go back to your diapers, wheel chair and crusty Arum, you gay dirty turd!
It’s a solid performance for Mayweather and he’s making a ton of $$$ from it. He’s as dominant (and boring) as ever. I didn’t buy the PPV because I swore off Mayweather PPVs after the Ortiz fight, but I did watch the fight online.
I think the days of 1M+ PPVs are over unless it’s a really good match up – Pacman-Floyd would do 2M PPVs, but anything else will be in the 800-900k range. Still a good draw considering the current PPV climate.
This just goes to show you that it takes two to tango.
But It’s still impressive what Mayweather is able to generate by carrying the PPV all by himself.
He is also on the cusp of retirement so he should be looking at only big name opponents– where together can break that 2 mill mark (Manny Pacquiao).
Diego- Even though no longer has much appeal Pac vs Mayweather would still do over 3 million buys. Those two names on a marquee would still sell like freakin hotcakes. 5 years ago that fight would have done over 4 million ppv buys. The world would have stopped.
FightBusiness,
You’re probably right. I’m trying to be conservative, but the hype for that fight would be immense and both guys have just enough left to make it interesting. What ever number it does it will be a record.
Fightbusiness with more of his delusions. 4 million buys is nearly impossible, doesn’t matter how big profile the fight is. That would be such an astronomical number. Their is a cap to how far ppv buys will go. Judging by the climate these days of ppv buys, if they fought next year, they would be looking at 2m+ buys, I doubt they would hit 3m, and even if they had this when they were both prime and the ppv market was at a high, 4m would be out of the question. You just make shit up as you go along.