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Report: Floyd Posts Lowest PPV Buys Since '06
If Floyd Mayweather Jr. is actually retiring, it appears he'll be going out with one of the biggest financial duds of his professional career.
Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports reported that Mayweather's Sept. 12 bout with Andre Berto drew somewhere between 400,000 and 550,000 pay-per-view buys—his lowest total in nearly a decade. Sources differed on the actual total, but the sales nonetheless represent the overall tepid nature of a bout that was seen as an overwhelming mismatch from the start.
Showtime Sports executive vice president and general manager Stephen Espinoza spoke with Iole about the fight:
To a large extent, anything we did coming off of that massive May 2 event was going to feel like a bit of a letdown. We didn't have available a really compelling list of available opponents. There's been a lot of speculation about a lot of things, but when you got down to it, there wasn't really a long list of available guys and none of them were slam dunk established stories or really compelling storylines.
Report: Floyd Posts Lowest PPV Buys Since '06
If Floyd Mayweather Jr. is actually retiring, it appears he'll be going out with one of the biggest financial duds of his professional career.
Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports reported that Mayweather's Sept. 12 bout with Andre Berto drew somewhere between 400,000 and 550,000 pay-per-view buys—his lowest total in nearly a decade. Sources differed on the actual total, but the sales nonetheless represent the overall tepid nature of a bout that was seen as an overwhelming mismatch from the start.
Showtime Sports executive vice president and general manager Stephen Espinoza spoke with Iole about the fight:
To a large extent, anything we did coming off of that massive May 2 event was going to feel like a bit of a letdown. We didn't have available a really compelling list of available opponents. There's been a lot of speculation about a lot of things, but when you got down to it, there wasn't really a long list of available guys and none of them were slam dunk established stories or really compelling storylines.
