Early buyrate figure at under 700k for Manny Pacquiao vs Timothy Bradley 2

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Pacquiao-Bradley II PPV Numbers Coming Next Week
Posted by: Ryan Maquinana on 4/17/2014 .

Manny Pacquiao’s triumphant return to the win column last Saturday over a tenacious Tim Bradley certainly pleased HBO Sports president Ken Hershman. The question now becomes whether or not the fight delivered in pay-per-view sales.

“It was a great fight to watch,” Hershman told BoxingScene.com on Wednesday night in Santa Monica, Calif. “We should have the (pay-per-view) numbers sometime next week.”

Pacquiao’s first fight with Bradley in 2012 ended with a controversial decision and a reported lukewarm figure of 890,000 buys. If Hershman was concealing his excitement (or apprehension) for the anticipated amount of buys for last weekend’s rematch, Top Rank CEO Bob Arum, who promoted the fight, offered a stark contrast.

“Bradley was relatively unknown as well and now Bradley is better known and he’s adjusting more to the limelight,” Arum told The Telegraph. “He’s holding his own, he’s become a personality. We’ve tapped in to wider media in various ways so I think we’re going to go over a million -- I’d say, perhaps 1.2 million.”

Editor's Note: Industry sources place the early buyrate figure at under 700,000 - which has yet to be confirmed by HBO or Top Rank.


Regarding a potential fifth showdown between Pacquiao and nemesis Juan Manuel Marquez, Hershman kept his cards close to the vest. Marquez meets underdog Mike Alvarado on May 17 at the Forum in Inglewood, Calif., and the HBO boss wants to “get through that fight first” before he can “figure out what the next step is.”

HBO has a busy summer ahead. After Marquez-Alvarado, the network will air Carl Froch-George Groves II on May 31, Sergio Martinez-Miguel Cotto on June 7 (pay-per-view), Ruslan Provodnikov-Chris Algieri on June 14, and one more potential PPV bout sure to capture the boxing public’s imagination.

“If we can get that fight done, it would be great,” Hershman said of a likely July 19 clash between Gennady Golovkin and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. on HBO Pay-Per-View.

Of course, the one topic on every boxing fan’s mind is the so-called “Cold War” between HBO and Showtime and the perceived line in the sand where on the surface, it appears that promoters have been forced to pick sides. However, Hershman declined to comment.

“I don’t want to talk about that,” he said.

Pacquiao-Bradley II PPV Numbers Coming Next Week - Boxing News


Pac vs Bradley 1 at 895k......Pac vs Bradley 2 at 700k estimated.....Arum saying he believes 1.2 mill?:lupe:
 

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Dawg, I don't even believe 700k cuz that fight was not even received well and the casuals left Pac years ago. I d say 400k top. :heh:

Pac needs to leave Bob asap.
 

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Should that be considered terrible really? Who else doing those numbers outside of Mayweather? Pac aint what he was, so I wouldn't expect his #'s to be much better than this anyway. If they overspent on promotion, than that's just dumb on Arum's part.
 

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lol @ 890k being lukewarm. This fool whose writing knows nothing :mjlol:
 

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Damn . . didnt the rios fight do like 350k? struggling to crack 1million with 2 fights, while floyd pushing 3 million in his last 2 fight?

Pac needs to get with gbp
 

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For what it is worth, in his chat Dan Rafael said numbers had not been released, but still expected it to exceed 700,000 buys...but less than 890,000.
 
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