Forbes.com reports that boxer Floyd Mayweather tops the list of the World’s highest paid athletes. Mayweather earned $105 million in the past 12 months for two fights. Mayweather’s victories over Canelo Alvarez and Marcos Maidana have netted him the top spot on Forbes’ annual list. “The One,” this past September set records for PPV, gate […]
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Schaefer, Mayweather leave Golden Boy
ESPN reports on the news of a jolt within the boxing world as Richard Schaefer tendered his resignation from Golden Boy Promotions on Monday. As a result, Floyd Mayweather left Golden Boy to join up with Schaefer and Al Haymon. A Michigan newspaper reports that Mayweather will promote his September 13th fight on his own. […]
Mayweather-Maidana does 900K PPV buys
Sports Illustrated reports that the Floyd Mayweather-Marcos Maidana fight on May 3rd received 900,000 PPV buys. According to the Chris Mannix article, the PPV buy rate is from multiple industry sources. ESPN Dan Rafael had previously reported that the fight sold between 800-900K PPV buys. Thus, the estimate was right on track. The SI article […]
Pacquiao-Top Rank renew contract
ESPN reports that Manny Pacquiao has signed a two year extension with Top Rank Boxing. The deal will go through December 2016 and likely ends talk of a possible Pacquiao-Mayweather fight. Top Rank Promoter Bob Arum indicated that the financial terms were not disclosed due to a confidentiality agreement. The deal also extends MP Promotions […]
JMM-Alvarado on HBO score 1.2 million viewers
Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports reported via Twitter that Saturday night’s HBO Boxing event featuring Juan Manuel Marquez and Mike Alvarado averaged 1.2 million HBO subscribers. The peak for the event taking place at the Forum in Inglewood, California was 1.3 million. To be exact, Iole reports the fight averaged 1.198 million and the peak […]