Mayweather Hatton 850k PPV buys

dbf · Post by **dbf** » 18 Dec 2007, 08:48

The numbers are in. 850k HBO buys, not bad but not as big as some had expected. Source; fightnews.com

Poncey · Post by **Poncey** » 18 Dec 2007, 09:16

Nothing near the forecast 1.5 million HBO stated last week!!

dbf · Post by **dbf** » 18 Dec 2007, 11:04

apparently they did over a million in the uk for this fight?

Khaosai-Galaxy · Post by **Khaosai-Galaxy** » 18 Dec 2007, 18:08

dbf wrote:apparently they did over a million in the uk for this fight?

did they fornicate, like

dbf · Post by **dbf** » 19 Dec 2007, 06:58

I'm pretty sure the 850k is just HBO in America's figures.

I can't remember where I read it, sky BO estimated a million buys, which would be insane.

Sammy Mendelson · Post by **Sammy Mendelson** » 19 Dec 2007, 07:02

dbf wrote:sky BO estimated a million buys, which would be insane.

Not a chance!

Autobarn · Post by **Autobarn** » 19 Dec 2007, 08:55

considering that lewis-tyson did 750,000 over here, big PPV #s cannot be ruled out.

hatton-floyd was a fight that ppl are actually talking about, the kind of event that you can be sure some of your mates/colleagues actually saw or knew about.

boxingchat · Post by **boxingchat** » 19 Dec 2007, 13:28

Heard it was 900k in the UK and 850k in the US. Not bad!

nickd · Post by **nickd** » 19 Dec 2007, 14:53

The Hatton's must have made an astonishing cut of that PPV revenue, makes their handling of the tickets almost uncomprehendable. Did they really need to be selling tickets at multiples of face value? Hardly.

rhino222 · Post by **rhino222** » 19 Dec 2007, 15:01

912K in the uk

Autobarn · Post by **Autobarn** » 19 Dec 2007, 15:58

put a hard drinking "everyman" in at the highest level and the country tunes in

Sammy Mendelson · Post by **Sammy Mendelson** » 19 Dec 2007, 17:19

rhino222 wrote:912K in the uk

I still cannot believe that number. That said, the fact so many are mentioning figures around the 900K mark may make it so. If it does turn out to be the case, it just shows how malleable the general public really are. A week of hype and marketing and people who wouldn't dream of tuning in to a boxing match normally are prepared to shell out and sit up all night to watch a fight.

I suppose if there is enough hype behind something, the public will buy into it (see X Factor and other shite for more evidence). So many are bleating sheep. It's sad.