Manny Pacquiao vs Joshua Clottey generated 700,000 PPV buys

Manny Pacquiao's lopsided unanimous decision against Joshua Clottey generated 700,000 pay-per-view buys and $35.3 million in domestic television revenue, HBO PPV's Mark Taffet said Tuesday.

The pound-for-pound king routed Clottey to retain his welterweight title on March 13 in the first boxing event staged at Jerry Jones' $1.2 billion Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

Clottey, a native of Ghana living in New York, brought no significant fan base to the fight and was virtually unknown to the masses, so the figures are a credit to Pacquiao's popularity.

"We are extremely pleased with the pay-per-view performance of Pacquiao-Clottey. Fights like this traditionally do not exceed 400,000 buys," Taffet said. "It is a testament to the popularity of Pacquiao and the vitality of the sport, and it gives us great encouragement as we look toward the May 1 Mayweather-Mosley pay-per-view fight."

The breakdown for Pacquiao-Clottey was 350,000 buys from cable homes, 310,000 from satellite homes and 40,000 from telco homes.

Based on his pay-per-view history, Pacquiao, of the Philippines, has become a crossover star in the United States.

In 12 pay-per-view fights, he has generated 6.25 million buys and $320 million in revenue. The bulk of the total has come from his last four fights: Clottey, Miguel Cotto (1.2 million buys), Ricky Hatton (800,000 buys) and Oscar De La Hoya (1.25 million buys).

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remember when Grant and JJ were saying this wouldnt get 25 thousand spectators?

Gotta admit Bob Arum and Jerry Jones first hook upwas a success

Here in Dallas the rumors are Jerry is already setting up a boxing match at Cowboy Stadium during the Cowboys bye week

Good for the sport :-)

agree Ali only good can come from Jerry getting involved in the sport

people are acting like Jerry will ruin the integrity (WTF)

This was a huge success. 700k buys against a no-name in ppv terms is a good thing, and I don't buy into any line of thinking that says the fight was bad for Pacman's popularity. He threw 100 punches a round and had the other guy running scared, and I think everyone who watched the fight knows that. Pacman and Mayweather/Mosley would do 2 million easy. 2.5.

Wolfgangsta wrote:

This was a huge success. 700k buys against a no-name in ppv terms is a good thing, and I don't buy into any line of thinking that says the fight was bad for Pacman's popularity. He threw 100 punches a round and had the other guy running scared, and I think everyone who watched the fight knows that. Pacman and Mayweather/Mosley would do 2 million easy. 2.5.

Plus this fight didn't have HBO's 24/7 promoting it for 4 weeks.