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The numbers are still being counted and collected from last week’s Mega Fight between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor, but the early results are huge! Even if another penny isn’t collected, it will be the second-biggest pay-per-view number ever.
The only fight that is currently higher is the Manny Pacquiao vs Mayweather scuffle of 2015. That epic fight brought in 4.6 million buys. As first reported by Yahoo Sports, Stephen Espinoza, the executive vice president and general manager of Showtime Sports, stated that while the count is ongoing, it appears that Mayweather-McGregor is tracking for between mid-4 million and high-4 million.
Another huge gain for boxing was the large amount of crossover fans from UFC that migrated over to Showtime for the fight. Around 40 percent of the UFC.tv buyers purchased from Showtime for the first time.
As expected, the fight not only had massive appeal to casual fans here in the states, but all over the world. As of this morning, the world-wide pay-per-view number was 6.7 million and growing. Showtime feels confident that it will break the U.S. record of 4.6 and hit 5 million.
When Showtime signed Mayweather to an exclusive deal in 2013, swiping him away from their dreaded rival HBO, it proved to be a smart move and a huge coo for them. Mayweather has fought seven times under the Showtime PPV banner, and he has posted three of the four largest pay-per-view numbers in history, as well as the three largest-grossing fights in history. He is proving exactly why they call him “Money”.
The craziest and perhaps most impressive thing about all of this is that there was a gigantic amount of people who were dishonest, and ripped the fight off. People who didn’t pay for it at all and found a way to rip people off.
Wayne Lonstein, the CEO of VFT Solutions, said that after final tabulations were complete that there were 6,977 illegal streams which accounted for 131,834,736 pirated views. It’s sickening to think that the viewership of illegal streams could reach upward of 100 million.
Imagine that for a second, you spend your hard-earned money to watch this spectacle, and more than 131,834,736 people found a way to get it for free? Sad!
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