There are conflicting reports on the PPV buys for the Canelo Alvarez-Amir Khan fight this past Saturday. ESPN’s Dan Rafael reports the fight drew around 600,000 PPV buys according to Golden Boy’s Oscar de la Hoya. Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports indicates that it drew 460,000 PPV buys based on information from cable and satellite […]
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Alvarez and Boxing PPV buys
As Canelo Alvarez takes on Amir Khan Saturday night on one of the busiest days in sports, we take a look at prior May boxing events and where this PPV can go. Per Sports Business Journal Research, these are the top-grossing boxing PPVs: Mayweather-Pacquiao – May 2015: 4.4M PPV buys Oscar de la Hoya-Mayweather – […]
GGG draws 1.325M on HBO
HBO Boxing featuring Gennady Golovkin facing Dominic Wade drew an average subscriber rating of 1.325M viewers per Sports TV Ratings. The GGG fight is comparable to his last HBO fight this past May. The fight drew 758,000 viewers in the adult 18-49 demo. The fight preceding GGG-Wade was Roman “Chocolito” Gonzalez soundly defeating McWilliams Arroyo. […]
Disappointing PPV buy rate for Pacquiao-Bradley III
The Manny Pacquiao-Tim Bradley trilogy did poorly on PPV according to Bob Arum in a report from ESPN’s Dan Rafael. The Top Rank promoter admits that the PPV did between 400K-500K buys and that the event lost money. Arum admitted that the April 9th event will be closer to 400K PPV buys than 500K and that […]
Replay of Pacquiao-Bradley trilogy draws 750K on HBO
The HBO replay of the Manny Pacquiao-Timothy Bradley fight from April 8th drew 750,000 network subscribers per Sports TV Ratings. The event drew 347,000 viewers in the Adult 18-49 demo. The event was marred by Pacquiao’s controversial comments about same sex relationships which cost him his Nike sponsorship. Notably, Pacquiao still wore Nikes in his […]