Based on the record breaking draw of the Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao fight back in May, nobody expected Floyd’s fight with Andre Berto to come anywhere remotely close to the 4.4 million pay per view his previous fight did. Unfortunately the numbers are reportedly very, very low, even with expectations already being low beforehand.
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ESPN’s Dan Rafael reports that the pay-per-view numbers didn’t top 550,000 buys.
“PPV industry source on #MayweatherBerto numbers tells me they’re very poor relatively speaking. ‘Being generous is might hit 550,000 buys”, Rafael tweeted earlier this week.
He also pointed out it would be the lowest numbers Floyd has done since he first became a pay per view fighter.
To add insult to injury, there were hundreds of empty seats at the MGM arena. They tried to mask it in the broadcast, but the numbers don’t lie. Scores of tickets were available on the secondary market for less than $200.
Floyd made a guaranteed $32 million for the fight so it’s not like this is a loss overall.
