There are conflicting reports on the PPV buys for the Canelo Alvarez-Amir Khan fight this past Saturday. ESPN’s Dan Rafael reports the fight drew around 600,000 PPV buys according to Golden Boy’s Oscar de la Hoya. Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports indicates that it drew 460,000 PPV buys based on information from cable and satellite […]
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Alvarez and Boxing PPV buys
As Canelo Alvarez takes on Amir Khan Saturday night on one of the busiest days in sports, we take a look at prior May boxing events and where this PPV can go. Per Sports Business Journal Research, these are the top-grossing boxing PPVs: Mayweather-Pacquiao – May 2015: 4.4M PPV buys Oscar de la Hoya-Mayweather – […]
Is “Money” coming back?
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. may be returning from his short retirement based on a couple trademarks filed late last month with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. In an interview with Showtime this past Saturday, the 49-0 fighter maintained he is staying out of the ring but conceded he has had talks with CBS and […]
PBC on Spike TV draws 513,000 viewers
PBC on Spike TV this past Friday night drew 513,000 viewers a cording to Sports TV Ratings. The ratings show a 40% drop from its April 1 event. In the main event, Andre Dirrell defeated Blake Caparello despite Direll being knocked down in the fight. According to Sports TV Ratings, it registered just 180,000 viewers […]