Mike Coppinger reports that the fight did between 800-850,000 buys.
Sources: The rematch between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury generated in the neighborhood of approxmately 800,000 to 850,000 pay-per-view buys in North America. Best performance - by far - for a heavyweight title fight since Tyson-Lewis in 2002. Wilder-Fury 1 sold around 325K buys.
(via @mikecoppinger)
Last Saturday night’s big pay-per-view rematch between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury was easily the biggest event in boxing so far this year, but the reported pay-per-view buy numbers are going to cause some different reactions.
Mike Coppinger reports that the fight did between 800-850,000 buys, which Chris Mannix backs up. Mannix adds that digital buys through ESPN+ and the FOX Sports app “overperformed,” while traditional cable did not.
Mannix adds, “Privately, officials hoped for 1 to 1.1 millions, effectively break even numbers.” And we know very well that Bob Arum in various interviews had wild visions of 2-3 million buys, which was never, ever realistic given that the first fight in Dec. 2018 did 325K. Honestly, this is about what I imagined they’d get. Obviously more than 850,000 people watched this fight. A lot of them just stole it.
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