Consider this very good news for boxing in general: the Floyd Mayweather Jr./Juan Manuel Marquez bout from last Saturday pulled at least one million pay per view buys, and may go as high as 1.6 million when all is said and done.
That’s from Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports, who reported the news last night.
The UFC is a privately owned company and does not have to release its pay-per-view sales, which it chooses not to do. Occasionally, we’re able to find out what a particular fight sold, but it’s not often. From what I’m hearing, though, the Mayweather fight had a convincing victory. I’m hearing the Mayweather-Marquez pay-per-view is going to come in at or near 1 million sales. I don’t have a verifiable figure for the UFC, but I believe it will be far lower than 1 million. The boxing number should be released by Thursday at the latest and perhaps on Wednesday.
We’re almost always able to find out what the UFC does on PPV, but it comes from the cable companies and not from Zuffa itself. But Kevin is absolutely correct about UFC 103; I would be absolutely shocked if it breaks the 600,000 buy barrier. I think a number around 450,000 is probably more accurate, which isn’t bad when you consider that the show was headlined by Rich Franklin vs. Vitor Belfort in a non-title catchweight bout.
As I said above, this is very good news for boxing. It’s also very good news for “Money” Mayweather, who cements himself as one of the biggest PPV draws in combat sports.
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You do realise what you just said is an unconfirmed rumor made by a guy who’s been wrong many times before right? Im not dissing you man, but seriously it’s just a rumor til we get some concrete proof.
Can you point out specific examples of Kevin Iole being wrong (with links to back up the claims)?
Because in all the time I’ve known Kevin, it’s been obvious that he’s a very good journalist with very good sources. I doubt Kevin would post something like this without several methods of confirmation.
Regardless, I made a couple of small edits to note that it’s an unconfirmed report.
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/story/2007/9/24/20944/2329
http://www.mmaconvert.com/category/personalities/journalistswriters/kevin-iole/
This should tell you. I agree with some of his writings, but they do tend to have some bias to them. What I really meant to say was that some of his articles tend to be inacurate to an extent.
Hopefully this shuts up all the UFC fan boys screaming about the last 3 PPV’s averaging alsmot 1 million, only thanks to UFC 100. When in reality most UFC PPV’s average under 500,000 buys.
Marquez has HUGE drawing power in the hispanic community. Now imaging Mayweather vs Pacquiao??? That PPV would generate numbers the UFC would only dream of and would never come close to matching, not even with Fedor vs. Lesnar and Silva vs Machida on the same card.
I love MMA in general, but all these keyboard warriors and UFC fanboys are making the sport another WWE.