Pacquiao/Cotto does 1.25 million PPV buys
By Jim Murphy November 21st, 2009Great PPV showing for the Miguel Cotto/Manny Pacquiao fight with 1.25 million PPV buys. ESPN’s Dan Raphael puts in perspective:
Combined with the approximately 1.05 million buys generated by Floyd Mayweather’s dominant decision victory against Juan Manuel Marquez on Sept. 19, it was the first time since 1999 — when Felix Trinidad claimed a decision against Oscar De La Hoya in a welterweight unification fight and Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield fought to a highly controversial draw for the undisputed heavyweight championship — that two pay-per-view fights have generated at least 1 million buys in the same calendar year.
It was also the first time that back-to-back pay-per-views have reached seven figures.
