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 […]
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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 […]
Mayweather-Canelo fight hits 2.2M PPV buys according to Showtime
Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports reports that “The One,” the fight between Floyd Mayweather, Jr and Canelo Alvarez will do about 2.2 million PPV units in the U.S. for $150 million making it the highest grossing boxing PPV ever. As a result, its believed that Floyd Mayweather could make $70-80 million while Alvarez will make […]
“The One” Payout Perspective
Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective. This time we look at “The One,” the fight between Canelo Alvarez and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Mayweather dominates in Majority Decision The look on Mayweather’s face when a Majority Decision was announced was not worth the $75 PPV price tag but it was still pretty good. Notably, CJ […]