^^ I doubt that it will break into the top 5 much less in the top 10.
Probably around 400-600 thousand buys might be a good estimates at a stretch. Pre-pandemic, it might broke 1 million, and so far I haven't seen any reports of fight in 2021 that generated over 500k, Canelo Alvarez, the current cash cow, have sold 300k vs Smith.
Even the live gate tickets is not yet sold out.
Canelo vs. Callum Smith was on DAZN and not on traditional pay-per-view. It was against Callum's brother Liam that Canelo sold 300k PPVs in 2016.
Right, but still it was way below expectations, regardless if it is non or traditional ppv. The question is why does DAZN put in on on traditional ppv.
Canelo vs Saunders draw 400k. That's why I draw the line for the Pacquiao vs Spence, at the lowest it could be around the numbers.
The gate looks to be doing really well since they have sold most of the tickets. Keep in mind they don't need to sell every seat for it to be a huge success. Mayweather's fight against McGregor fell way short of a sell out and had the second biggest gate ever.
Maybe what I said is misleading, we will not see a full sold out tickets because in boxing or any other sports, there is this thing called complimentary tickets.
Yes, it could be a success if the ticket has not been totally sold out, but I would say that it has something to do with how much money the fighter will get. The live gates could be split 60-40 in favour of Manny.
Canelo vs Saunders sold almost 70k tickets which generated $9 million alone.