Canelo vs. Berlanga 650K PPV Buys

The Munguia fight apparently did around 550k buys. The numbers for Canelo's last two fights are good, considering Amazon Prime didn't do a great job to promote either fight. If those fights were on HBO or Showtime, they certainly would have done better numbers.

 

For reference, the revenue is slightly more than Floyd vs Marquez/Hatton/Gerrero/Maidana.

I genuinely believe that ramping up the PPV prices to such ridiculous numbers like 89,99$ is costing them profits. It´s just too much. And of course they are going to struggle to reach the golden 1,000,000 buy rate that Manny and Floyd set.
Heck, I think that Manny and Floyd would struggle to do that today.

 

UFC stopped disclosing since the ESPN deal.

 

Pretty good numbers considering they went up against the UFC, which if you compare the cards, Boxing won hands down.

 

I don´t want to say too much, but you can easily find illegal streams that are as good in quality as the actual broadcast. It´s insane. This did not exist 12 years ago.

Inflation is real, no denying it. I don´t think it´s quite fair to just blank compare inflation numbers, but even if done so, Canelo is still selling well. It´s fair to say that he isn´t as big as Floyd and Manny were, but he is the clear cut nr 3. And heck, if he fought better opposition then he would do better numbers.
Canelo´s last two fights did slightly better than Manny vs Clottey, when adjusted for inflation. Give Canelo an actually popular opponent and he could rival Floyd and Manny. He has demonstrated this capability in the past with Golovkin and Chavez Jr.

 

Why would Canelo fight Benavidez ? He makes plenty of profit fighting the Berlangas of the world lol

 

It's unfortunately confirmation for him and fuel that he can keep doing what he wants and still sell numbers. I bought the fight and watched with some friends but I suppose all the fans who say they won't support him aren't having any impact on his numbers either way lol. I heard the ufc did a 22 million dollar gate and had astronomical ticket prices in comparison.

 

I did a little looking into it and found no credible source on the 650k. Initially it was reported at 750k but no actual sources for that either.
A lot of people are claiming SBJ as their source, but SBJ themselves just say "a source said".