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Update: HBO Claims 1 Million PPV Buys for Mayweather-Marquez
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Update: HBO Claims 1 Million PPV Buys for Mayweather-Marquez
Friday, September 25, 2009
by Sherdog.com Staff

HBO Sports announced Friday that its Sept. 19 boxing pay-per-view featuring Floyd Mayweather and Juan Manuel Marquez generated one million buys.

According to the network, that makes the event the highest performing boxing pay-per-view of the year with $52 million in pay-per-view revenue. Mayweather Promotions and Golden Boy Promotions promoted the show, which featured a dominant win on points by Mayweather.

The same night that Mayweather fought Marquez in Las Vegas, UFC 103 took place in Dallas and featured a matchup between Rich Franklin and Vitor Belfort. Mayweather and UFC President Dana White bantered back and forth as the events approached, but UFC 103 is not expected to match the buys that HBO claims for Mayweather-Marquez.

“Bottom line, we did a good number and we still got our asses kicked," White told Yahoo on Friday. "What they did was phenomenal and I’m happy for them. This was our fourth pay-per-view in two months [10 weeks] and we still did a great number, but this was only their second all year.

“We honestly thought we’d do our number and that if they knocked it out of the park, they’d do around 650,000. We are ecstatic with the number we did, but they did a huge, huge number.”

This article was updated at 10:05 p.m. EST to include a quote from Dana White.
 

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