Gennady Golovkin made a splash in his debut on top of the card of a PPV. He stopped David Lemieux in the 8th round. In addition, Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez stopped Brian Viloria in the co-main event.
According to multiple reports, 20,548 paid to see GGG-Lemieux at Madison Square Garden.
According to ESPN’s Dan Rafael, GGG received $2 million while Lemieux earned $1.5 million. Both will earn PPV points dependent on the number of buys.
For the co-main event, Roman Gonzalez made $250,000. Viloria earned $100,000.
Payout Perspective:
Is GGG a PPV star? He was the 5th most-searched topic Saturday in the United States according to Google Trends. The event’s two stars, Roman Gonzalez and GGG, both were impressive in stopping their respective opponents. We will see if this event will spur another GGG PPV in 2016.
Madison Square Garden was sold out & it definitely had that can’t-miss-big-event feel to it. Golovkin delivered impressively and is now a ‘name’ to not just boxing fans, he is entertaining, technical, aggressive & charismatic.. I believe he became a star after last night.
Cotto-Canelo will be absolutely huge, and Golovkin vs. the winner of that one could be bigger.
Golovkin style brings in the fans….msg were chanting his name even if he is not from the u.s….now that he is famous and money coming in fighters now would not avoid him…canelo,cotto,kid chocolalate,andre ward
They should make him fight more frequently like mike tyson in th 80’s….the crowd roars in anticipation of each power punch…..
I trained at Lemiux’s Gym with Mr Anber a few times ack when he was only a teenager, sad to see him lose but a great night or boxing fans overall.
Hard to imagine either one making ppv points after the ppv flop.