Pacquiao-Cotto fight makes $120M in pay-per-view?
By Eddie Alinea
PhilBoxing.com
Thu, 19 Nov 2009
Official reports on the total PPV earnings of the Manny Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto ‘Fire Power’ welterweight championship fight has yet to be released but if trends will follow, it was estimated that the Saturday bout could very well draw $120 million.
If Puerto Rico’s Rey Col?n of the ?El Vocero? is to be believed, the 12-round confrontation stands to make approximately 2 million pay-per-view buys that, if translated into cash would generate no less than $120 million.
It was not mentioned how much Pacquiao?s cut will be but the same report said Cotto will be getting a minimum $10 million.
Boxing Examiner, quoting a reliable source, on the other hand, reported that as of Tuesday afternoon (Wednesday Manila time), the total numbers might match the 1.1 million buy the Floyd Mayweather-Juan Manuel Marquez encounter last Mar. 19 did.
That would then establish that the newly-crowned World Boxing Organization welterweight champion and pound-for-pound king has further peaked in popularity,making him a bigger draw than Mayweather.
And that, too, would make a proposed Pacquiao-Mayweather collision inevitable to decide who really is the no. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world today.
No amount of report that the Pacquiao-Mayweather will not push through can erase the fact that such a mega-fight will be realized.
Mayweather, one report said, has asked for a 65/35 purse split in his favor, something that Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach won’t accept at this point in Manny’s career. A realistic number would be 50/50 or possibly a similar scenario that Bernard Hopkins agreed to with Roy Jones, where the winner gets 60 percent and the loser 40.
The Examiner’s Michael Marley, in his story, said It won’t be until probably late Thursday that a reasonably certain “final number” can be extrapolated from the various PP distributors, adding that the only guys capable of officially disclosing the real numbers are Arum and Ross Greenburg and Mark Taffet of HBO.
"Today, (Tuesday) it’s all projections. By the end of the business day Wednesday they will have hard, reliable numbers as reported in from Direct TV and Dish Network, “ Marley reported quoting his source.
"I think it will match Marquez-Mayweather and maybe inch a bit past their numbers,” this TV insider told Marley.
The PPV all-time record is 2.3 million generated in the Oscar de la Hoya-Mayweather fight.
Pacman, being a non-American might not break this record, but Marley said that if Pacquiao can match Mayweather’s numbers, “that is yet another (Pacquiao) victory.”
This article also appeared in Philippine Gazette issue of November 19.
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