Pacquiao-Morales III 350,000 buys!

By G. Leon

29/11/2006

Pacquiao-Morales III 350,000 buys!

Courtesy of HBO: Pacquiao-Morales 3 did 350,000 buys and $17.5 million of PPV revenue, making it the highest grossing lighter-weight fight in our history. The Pacquiao-Morales trilogy generated 1,060,000 buys and $49.4 million, a remarkable accomplishment for two fighters whose combined weight is 260 pounds. And, with our year now complete, I am happy to report that in 2006 HBOPPV generated 3.7 million buys and $177 million in PPV revenue, making it our 2nd-biggest year ever (since inception in 1991), second only to 1999 when we generated 4 million buys and $200 million in a year highlighted by De La Hoya-Trinidad, De La Hoya-Quartey, and Holyfield-Lewis I and II. "We're very pleased with the performance of Pacquiao-Morales 3.  It was a very exciting fight for boxing fans, was the highest-grossing fight we've ever had in the lighter weight classes, and concluded a memorable trilogy in which over 1 million buys and nearly $50 million of PPV revenue was generated by two fighters weighing a combined 260 pounds."