Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports reports that the Timothy Bradley-Juan Manuel Marquez fight taking place on PPV on Saturday, October 12th received 375,000 PPV buys. According to ESPN’s Dan Rafael, the PPV buys generated $21.75M. The estimated PPV buys is a good number considering Top Rank estimated the buy rate to be 350K-450K. According to […]
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Broner-Maidana off of PPV
It was announced on Saturday that Golden Boy and Showtime will be taking its December 14th Adrien Broner-Marcos Maidana off of PPV and move it to the Showtime. The Broner-Maidana fight occurs one week before another Showtime event featuring Paulie Malignaggi and Zab Judah. As the December 14th event will be taken off PPV, it […]
Arum predicts PPV buys for Marquez-Bradley
Saturday at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, Timothy Bradley takes on Juan Manuel Marquez on HBO PPV via Top Rank. Bob Arum recently indicated some PPV predictions including the one for this fight which is priced at $64.95 (HD). Arum speaking to Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports and Ryan Burton of […]
Second week in a row HBO Boxing scores best ratings of year
This past Saturday’s Miguel Cotto versus Delvin Rodriguez fight on HBO scored the best ratings for HBO Boxing this year. It received 1.555 million viewers and eclipsed the Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. fight held just a week prior as the best for the year on the network. HBO also showed Wladimir Klitschko as he defeated […]
HBO Boxing averages 1.4 million for Chavez, Jr. fight
ESPN’s Dan Rafael reported via tweet that ratings for HBO Boxing’s Saturday night of fights did its best for 2013. The main event which featured Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. win a controversial decision over Brian Vera garnered an average of 1.416 million viewers. In addition to Chavez, Jr.’s fight, the night also had Adonis Stevenson […]