Boxing

The fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao shattered all sorts of records for pay per view numbers. It was far and away the most expensive boxing match ever, and the number of people that paid to watch it was stupendous. More than 4.4 million people bought the match, and you can be assured that more than this number actually watched it, as people often pool together for viewing parties when there’s a big PPV fight like this. Mayweather has had a six fight contract with Showtime, and the first five of those fights were handled as PPV matches just because that’s how most majorRead More →