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 […]
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Hopkins and Pac-Bradley II ratings from Saturday
Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports tweeted the ratings for the live event featuring Bernard Hopkins on Showtime and the HBO replay of Pacquiao-Bradley II. The controversial split decision of Hopkins-Shumenov narrowly beat the replay of Pacquiao-Bradley II. Recap: Pac-Bradley replay 689. BHop win 760k; Porter fight, 897k; Quillin, 622k — Kevin Iole (@KevinI) April 22, […]
Canelo and Garcia produce for Showtime-Golden Boy
Showtime and Golden Boy Promotions should be happy with the past two weeks as its promotion has produced good numbers on PPV and on Showtime. Canelo Alvarez’s first time headlining a boxing PPV has produced “well over 350,000 buys” according to Showtime and Golden Boy Promotions. Alvarez stopped Alfredo Angulo in the 10th round of […]
HBO wins head to head versus Showtime
HBO Boxing almost doubled the television ratings of Showtime Boxing in a head to head face off on Saturday night. Both boxing events ran up against each other and a portion of UFC on Fox 10. HBO’s Boxing After Dark series featured Mikey Garcia taking on Juan Carlos Burgos taken by Garcia. The broadcast scored […]
Boxing set for big PPV year
Sports Business Journal (subscription required) reports that boxing is set for one of its biggest years on PPV in 2014. The question is whether fight fans will be willing to pay for all of the fights that will occur on PPV this year. Canelo Alvarez will be prominently featured this year as Showtime and Golden […]