On Thursday, Showtime announced that the official domestic PPV buys for August’s Mayweather-McGregor fight drew 4.3 million PPV buys which fell short of the record set by Mayweather against Manny Pacquiao in May 2015. Showtime also announced that it drew over $600 million in total revenue. The Mayweather-McGregor fight was second biggest gate ever with […]
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Mayweather-McGregor draws $55.8M gate
ESPN.com’s Dan Rafael reports that the gate for the Mayweather-McGregor fight drew $55.8 million. The fight which took place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on August 26th. The event came in second in total gate in Nevada to the $72 million gate of Mayweather-Pacquiao in May 2015. Per ESPN: There were 137 complimentary […]
Mayweather-McGregor replay on Showtime draws 549,000
The replay of The Money Fight on Showtime this past Saturday drew 549,000 viewers per Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. In addition, an epilogue of All Access which followed immediately after drew 291,000 viewers. The Conor McGregor-Floyd Mayweather fight drew 549,000 Showtime subscribers and 0.15 in the A18-49 demo for the 42 minutes it aired on […]
Payout Perspective: The Money Fight
Welcome to a special edition of Payout Perspective. Almost a week later, but we are still talking about The Money Fight that took place August 26th at the T-Mobile Arena. Mayweather stops McGregor in 10 Floyd Mayweather waited it out. As most believed, he tested out Conor McGregor for the first couple around before going […]
The Ratings Buffet week ending September 1st
The Ratings Buffet for the week ending September 1st featured a lot of events this past weekend centered squarely around The Money Fight. Friday Showtime: All Access Mayweather-McGregor 10:00pm-10:23pm 105,000 viewers, 0.04 A18-49 FS1 Mayweather/McGregor Weigh-In Show 6:00-7:00pm ET 368,000 viewers FS1: All Access Mayweather/McGregor 8:30-9:00pm ET 214,000 viewers FS1: All Access Mayweather/McGregor 7:00-7:30pm ET […]