Pay Per View numbers for Tarver-Hopkins(Is it good??)

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http://www.doghouseboxing.com/Chee/Chee_0616d06.htm

According to published reports, Home Box Office (HBO) has released it’s pay-per-view numbers for its June 10 Bernard Hopkins-Antonio Tarver Bout.

The bout drew 330,000 PPV buys.

Acording to HBO senior vice president of sports operations Mark Taffet the fight has earned $16.5 million in PPV revenues.

HBO has had five PPV this year totalling more than $112 million in PPV revenue.

I was wondering if someone could put that into perspective for me please? Is that a high amount and how does it compare to Cotto’s fight?

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Well first of all, it would guarenteed have beaten out Cottos fight by a wide margin in terms of PPV buys, who the hell was going to pay 50 bucks to see Maligini who isn’t a passionate boxing fan.. I can’t really say how 330,000 is in terms of on average, but I know DLH vs Mayorga was almost a million buys, so that’s a little perspective, it didn’t do extremely well.. But like 5 of the top 10 PPV buys ever have been DLH fights, so maybe it did do just as well as they expected, I dunno,.

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I think DLH - Mayorga got 350,000 and it ranked in the top 10 in history so…yeah.

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that sounds more like it…The B-HOP/ Tarver fight represented itself well…

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Are you sure? I thought Tyson Holyfield got like 2 million, as the highest ever.. WOuldn’t the other top 10’s have to be higher then 300k?

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I think the list I saw was nonheavyweights. Trinidad-De La Hoya is at the top I think.

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No sir, ODLH - Mayorga almost did 900,000 buys. Judah PBF did 360,000. For PPV, it was good enough. Remember RJJ never did big on PPV but he was consistent pulling 200-300 K each fight.

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Damn I was way off. I just checked, the highest # of buys was Holyfield - Tyson II with 2 million buys, but the highest revenue was Tyson - Lewis with 1.8 million buys. Trinidad - De La Hoya was the highest ranking nonheavyweight fight.

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For the sake of perspective:
WWE usualy does around 300K buys, and One million buys is held as a great sucess.(Which they expect for there big pay per views)

But for a boxing non heavyweight fight, I think 300K is a big number. They probably released the number as a way of bragging about their sucess.

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Tyson vs. Spinks is the biggest I believe

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  • Biggest non-heavyweight PPV event: Trinidad-De La Hoya in 1999 produced 1.4 million buys and $71 million.

  • Most PPV buys: 1.99 million for Evander Holyfield-Mike Tyson II in 1997 (producing $99 million).

  • Highest PPV revenue: $103 million for Lennox Lewis-Tyson in 2002 (on 1.8 million buys).

http://boxing.about.com/b/a/182216.htm

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I’m pretty sure Holyfield-Tyson II also netted Evander the highest guarantee in Sports history, $34 million if I’m not mistaken. Tyson got $29 mil.

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i may be wrong but i think i remember judah mayweather getting about 300,000

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350,000

I remember your thread saying “Is this good” and confused that with Myorga - De La Hoya ;D

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that means judah mayweather outsold B-HOPS lasty fight!!?!?!?!

damn

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Hatton vs Tszyu done 425,000 in the UK, a country with less than 1/6 the population of the USA, thats howbad boxing is suckin ass in the states.

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Glad it did reasonably well. Shame RJJ’s PPV’s sold so much less than Oscar’s, people like style over substance I guess. And Tyson vs Holyfield II is the biggest for sure, I remember readin it in the Guiness world records book. Boy I bet people were happy they bought that one.

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Thanks P4P and SRKO,CC’s guys,does anyone have the final statistics for Cotto’s fight? I know Cotto’s fight had like 15,000 fans there,B Hop’s fight had like 10,000 if what I read was correct.

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FYI, the Pacquiao - Morales II fight brought in 350,000 ppv buys.