The NY Times reports that Manny Pacquiao could earn close to $30 million on Saturday night when he fights Brandon Rios in his return to the ring. The article also addresses the many obstacles on putting on a PPV abroad. Pacquiao is guaranteed $18 million with “an upside closer to $30 million.” More important is […]
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Bradley-Marquez reaches 375K PPV buys
Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports reports that the Timothy Bradley-Juan Manuel Marquez fight taking place on PPV on Saturday, October 12th received 375,000 PPV buys. According to ESPN’s Dan Rafael, the PPV buys generated $21.75M. The estimated PPV buys is a good number considering Top Rank estimated the buy rate to be 350K-450K. According to […]
Arum predicts PPV buys for Marquez-Bradley
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 […]
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 […]