According to HBO, the Manny Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto megafight generated 1.25 million buys and $70 million in domestic pay-per-view revenue, making it the biggest boxing PPV event of 2009. HBO will replay the fight this Saturday night at 10 pm ET/PT.
The Sept. 19 Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Juan Manuel Marquez bout did 1.05 million buys, making this the first time in a decade that two PPV events have generated at least one million buys in the same calendar year. 1999 featured Felix Trinidad-Oscar De La Hoya and the first meeting between Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield.
A fight between Pacquiao and Mayweather would likely shatter numerous pay-per-view records. Let's hope negotiations go smoothly and a date is set for Spring 2010.
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Pacquiao remains me of a young Roy Jones jr Pacman speed and quickness like when Roy Jones used to be in his prime.what I want to say is some great fight didn’t happened like Benn vs Jones,Collins vs Jones,Eubank vs Jones,McClellan vs Jones,James Toney vs Julian Jackson,Lewis vs Bowe,Tyson vs Bowe,Foreman vs Holmes and more. lets as hope that Mayweather vs Pacquiao will happenand I don’t want this fight happened when both are out of there primes let the fight happen now not in there old age.
Yeah ! Looks like Floyd annoying tactics didn’t work ! He knows Pacquiao’s afraid of blood so he wants olympic style drug test. Pacquiao wants drug test before and even right after the fight with fines as huge as $20million whoever gets caught violating. But Floyd doesn’t want it.
You will be surprised sometime on February, Mayweather will just agree to fight Manny dumping his ridiculous blood test. He continues to train up to that time preparing for the fight but Manny doesn’t thinking that the fight will never happen.
This is one tactic that i see in him. If he really wants to fight, then just fight and do not accused of others as taking drugs and s**t !