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 […]
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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 […]
PTI claims Boxing dead
Want to raise passion among combat sport fans? Advise the world the death of a sport. This happened with ESPN Pardon The Interruption recently as Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon, the Stadler and Waldorf of the network talking heads decried that boxing was dead. Certainly, a part of this proclamation was to ignite a fire. […]
Record promotional spending for Mayweather-Canelo
The Sports Business Journal (subscription only) reports on the record breaking night for boxing this Saturday night. Aside from Floyd Mayweather’s astronomical guaranteed purse and gate, the article details the money invested and anticipated from the event. CBS, Showtime and other television distributors will spend between $80 to $100 million in promotional value for the […]