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History. The earliest form of pay-per-view was closed-circuit television, also known as theatre television, where professional boxing telecasts were broadcast live to a select number of venues, mostly theaters, where viewers paid for tickets to watch the fight live.
The bout sold 500,000 pay-per-view buys in the United States, earning an estimated $37.5 million in pay-per-view revenue. With the victory, Pacquiao also became the first boxer to become a recognized four-time welterweight champion, breaking his tie with Jack Britton and Emile Griffith. He also became the oldest welterweight champion in boxing ...
Anthony Joshua vs Dominic Breazeale. Anthony Joshua vs Wladimir Klitschko. Anthony Joshua vs Éric Molina. Anthony Joshua vs. Joseph Parker. Anthony Joshua vs Alexander Povetkin. Anthony Joshua vs. Andy Ruiz Jr. Anthony Joshua vs. Carlos Takam. Anthony Joshua vs Dillian Whyte. Joe Joyce vs Zhilei Zhang.
Pay-per-view numbers The fight sold 1.3 million PPV buys, [56] when combining purchases on YouTube and the KSI vs Logan Paul official website. [57] This includes over 800,000 live purchases, [37] making it the largest non-professional amateur boxing match of all time.
After seven defenses of his lineal and WBC welterweight titles, De La Hoya fought rival and IBF Champion Félix Trinidad (35–0) on September 18, 1999, in one of the biggest pay-per-view events in history, setting a record for a non-heavyweight fight. De La Hoya stayed just outside Trinidad's range while generating much success with his stiff ...
Tyson wins via 1st-round KO. Mike Tyson vs. Michael Spinks, billed as Once and For All, [1] was a professional boxing match which took place on June 27, 1988. [2] Both fighters were undefeated and each had a claim to being the legitimate heavyweight champion. At the time, Tyson held the belts of all three of the major sanctioning organizations ...
2-division world champion. Result. Pacquiao wins via 12-round unanimous decision (116-112, 116-112, 118-110) Manny Pacquiao vs. Timothy Bradley II, was a boxing welterweight championship fight for the WBO welterweight championship. The bout was held on April 12, 2014, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Paradise, Nevada.
And it did: On Aug. 26. 2017, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, it sold 4.3 million pay-per-views, the second-best of all time, and generated in excess of $600 million in total revenue.