We all knew that despite the outrageous pay-per-view prices, the Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao super-fight would shatter all box office records for a combat sports presentation of any kind in history, but I don’t think anyone could have imagined this.
According to a new Yahoo! Sports report, early estimates for the Mayweather-Pacquiao super-fight are coming in at around the five-to-six million buy mark.
Yahoo! Sports is reporting the following:
“Yahoo Sports on Thursday learned sales figures for the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight on DirecTV and Dish Network, as well as AT&T’s uVerse and Verizon’s FIOS services. Those add up to 2.25 million sales, which even without one sale from a cable company customer would make it tied for the second-highest-selling pay-per-view of all time. DirecTV sold 1.15 million pay-per-views, while Dish’s number was 500,000. The telephone companies combined for 600,000. Combined, that is 2.25 million already. If cable systems wound up being 60 percent of the total, that would mean the final figure is a mind-boggling 5.625 million.”
If these numbers are correct, or even close to it, that would mean Pacquiao, the loser by unanimous decision of the fight, would earn a payday somewhere between $114 and $133 million, while “Money” Mayweather would pocket somewhere along the lines of $250 million for one evening’s work.
Not bad. Not bad at all.
For those who missed the fight, you can read detailed, round-by-round results by clicking here.
The above unofficial figures are from Yahoo! Sports.
