John Ourand of Sports Business Daily is reporting that Manny Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey did 700,000 buys on HBO PPV on March 13th at the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. HBO logged 700,000 PPV buys and $35.3M in revenue for Manny Pacquiao’s unanimous decision victory over Joshua Clottey on March 13 at Cowboys Stadium. HBO […]
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Pacquiao-Clottey Could Exceed Buyrate Expectations
Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports talks about the possibility of Manny Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey exceeding initial buyrate expectations of 500,000 to 700,000 for the fight held at Cowboys Stadium. The closed-circuit locations and presales in the East are at record levels, surpassing where they were in 2007 for the Oscar De La Hoya-Floyd Mayweather […]
HBO’s Taffet Talks Big Boxing PPVs on Bloomberg
Mark Taffet of HBO sits down with Bloomberg TV to discuss the latest in boxing business. Taffet shares what his predictions are for the Mayweather-Mosley fight, in addition to some other interesting tidbits about competition between boxing and MMA. Payout Perspective: The most interesting comment that Taffet made came towards the end of the interview […]
Dementia Pugilistica & MMA
Matt Pitt over at Sherdog writes on the topic of Dementia Pugilistica in contact sports like MMA, boxing, and football, which is a continuation of the discussion we’ve had here at MMAPayout.com regarding the perceived safety of the sport: It is true that there is compelling evidence that MMA is safer than boxing. But “safer” […]
Fedor, Lesnar in Business Week’s Top 100
The annual BusinessWeek Power 100: Most Powerful Athletes was published this week and caught the interest of the MMA industry by naming Fedor Emelianenko and Brock Lesnar to the list, in addition to boxers Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather Jr, Shane Mosley. Athlete Rankings of note: 72. Manny Pacquiao 82. Fedor Emelianenko 91. Floyd Mayweather Jr. […]