The July 12th PPV between Canelo Alvarez and Erislandy Lara will be shown in movie theaters as well as on Showtime PPV. In conjunction with Fathom Events, the Showtime/Golden Boy card will be in over 200 theaters across the country. Fathom Events is the company that has worked with putting UFC PPV events in theaters […]
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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 […]
Preliminary indications show that Mayweather-Maidana drew 800K-900K PPV buys
ESPN’s Dan Rafael indicated in a Sportsnation Chat with fans that the PPV buy rates from the Floyd Mayweather-Marcos Maidana fight sold between 800,000 to 900,000 PPVs. Golden Boy and Showtime have yet to make an official announcement. The news of the buy rate based on Rafael’s sources are disappointing considering it’s a Mayweather fight. […]
Mayweather (of course) tops payouts for “The Moment”
Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports reports the fight purses for Saturday’s Floyd Mayweather-Marcos Maidana fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mayweather will make $32 million without factoring other streams of revenue. Mayweather’s opponent, Marcos Maidana will make $1.5 million. Maidan will also receive a portion of the television rights from Argentina and […]