Pacquiao, tumabo ng 400,000 PPV hits sa Broner bout

PINATUNAYAN ni eightdivision world champion Manny Pacquiao na karapatdapat siyang mapabilang sa top ten ng pound-for-pound list sa The Ring Magazine matapos umabot sa 400,000 payper-view hits ang pagwawagi niya laban sa Amerikanong si Adrien Broner noong Linggo sa MGM Grand Garden sa Las Vegas, Nevada sa Estados Unidos.

“Multiple sources have confirmed to Yahoo Sports that the final pay-per-view number for the card will be 400,000, an unqualified success and 25 percent higher than Pacquiao’s last pay-per-view fight. That was in 2016 when he defeated Jessie Vargas at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas and sold around 300,000,” ayon sa ulat ni sports columnist Kevin Iole ng Yahoo Sports.

“Pacquiao is the secondgreatest selling pay-per-view fighter in history, behind only Floyd Mayweather. Their 2015 fight sold a record 4.6 million pay-per-views and generated almost $600 million in gross revenue,” dagdag sa ulat. “Saturday’s bout with Broner, which most experts were predicting to do in the 325,000 to 350,000 range, will come in with roughly $30 million. Pacquiao earned a guaranteed $10 million and should make more from the pay-per-view upside.”

Sa resultang ito, inaasahang tatanggapin ni dating P-4-P No. 1 Floyd Mayweather Jr. ang hamon ni Pacquiao na rematch ng kanilang laban noong 2015 sa Las Vegas din kung saan nagwagi siya sa 12round unanimous decision nang mapinsala ang kanang balikat ng Pinoy boxer.

“Mayweather met Pacquiao at a night club in Japan in September and they spoke about a fight, but Mayweather hasn’t shown much interest in it since. But seeing Pacquiao’s success against Broner may change his mind,” ulat pa ni Iole. “The fight was announced as a sellout at 13,025 because the MGM Grand Garden, which can fit more than 16,000 for boxing, was scaled slightly under capacity. All tickets were sold, promoters said, though not all seats were filled.”