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MAYWEATHER - HATTON PPV PROJECTIONS
« on: November 29, 2007, 09:52:14 AM »
Mayweather's May 5 win over Oscar De La Hoya at the MGM set a record of 2.5 million PPV sales.

The fight sold out in about a half hour, generating a total paid gate of more than $10 million. Already, 18,000 closed circuit tickets have been sold in Las Vegas. Sponsors are beating the door down hoping to attach their names to the bout.

And Mayweather Jr., who was derided for much of his career as a poor draw, might set an astonishing mark.

Promoter Richard Schaefer of Golden Boy said all other revenue streams for the Mayweather-Hatton bout are running at about 60 percent of what they were for the Mayweather-De La Hoya bout in May, which was the richest fight ever.

He said the pay-per-view results generally follow that trend which, if true, means Mayweather-Hatton will do about 1.5 million pay-per-view sales. That would make Mayweather Jr. the first non-heavyweight ever to sell more than 1 million pay-per-views in back-to-back fights, as well as the first man to 4 million in one calendar year.

He could generate more than $200 million in pay-per-view revenue alone in 2007.

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By contrast, the UFC expects to generate about $200 million in PPV in 2007.

Mayweather's 2 PPV fights = UFC's 10 PPV fights

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