6.5 million buys. This is the amount that Dana White state’s this past Saturday’s Mayweather-McGregor bout.
White stated this while talking to Urijah Faber and Snoop Dogg on Tuesday. The amount is thought to be a worldwide total and not just limited to North America. No official announcement had been made by Showtime or Zuffa.
The Los Angeles Times indicated that it should surpass the record 4.6 million buys by Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao in 2015 although it was too early to tell.
Payout Perspective:
All signs point to this fight breaking the record. The Prelims on Fox, which did not have any boxer of note, peaked at 3.1 million viewers and averaged 2.438M viewers. There were over 10 million searches for “MayweatherVsMcgregor Fight” and “Mayweather” on Saturday night which would suggest that this fight was widely sought after. 6.5 million seems like a worldwide number which would directly correlate with a lofty number of those coming from Europe and Ireland. The official estimates are said to come out later today.
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