ESPN’s Dan Rafael tweeted that this past Saturday’s fight between Canelo Alvarez and Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. did “at least 1 million buys.”
The report, if verified, is better than most expectations and is the best boxing PPV since the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather, Jr. fight back in May 2015.
No official numbers yet for #CaneloChavez PPV but I’m told it will be at least 1 million buys. A huge number for the fight. #boxing
— Dan Rafael (@danrafaelespn) May 9, 2017
Payout Perspective:
1 million PPV buys might be in the ballpark as all indications had this as a big event. All closed-circuit venues at Las Vegas hotels carrying the fight were sold out. The over 20,000 in attendance was the biggest in Vegas boxing history. Canelo and the Chavez name carried the PPV buys for the fight as the actual main event was easy to predict. The good news is that this September’s fight between Canelo and GGG should grab bigger PPV buys.
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