The Athletic’s Mike Coppinger reports that Saturday night’s PBC event featuring Errol Spence Jr. and Shawn Porter is “tracking over 300,000 buys” with the likelihood of it landing somewhere “under 350K.”
It was the second PPV featuring Spence as he defeated Porter in a very exciting fight meaning from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Previously, Spence drew 360,000 last March in a fight with Mikey Garcia
Sources: The PBC on FOX PPV headlined by Errol Spence Jr. and Shawn Porter is tracking over 300,000 buys, with the final number generated expected to land under 350K. Strong business that cements Spence as a PPV attraction. His PPV with Mikey Garcia generated over 300K also
— Mike Coppinger (@MikeCoppinger) September 30, 2019
It was announced after the fight that Spence would be returning to PPV in January against Danny Garcia. The news of the buys for this fight is promising for Fox PPV and PBC considering they would like to build around Spence.
The buy rate is an absolute win and you may infer that the Fox shoulder programming helped with promoting the event including the cross-promotion of it on with the NFL.
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