Conor McGregor vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr slår alltså inte PPV-rekord. Rekordet står kvar och hänvisas fortfarande till matchen Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao, som sålde 4,6 miljoner PPVs. Mayweather vs. McGregor sålde ”endast” 4,4 miljoner PPVs. Genom BoxningScene.com skrev de följande.
BoxingScene.com has learned that Mayweather-McGregor is expected to have generated approximately 4.4 million domestic pay-per-view buys and that an official announcement could be made as soon as this week.
That would mean that the highly publicized spectacle between boxing legend Floyd Mayweather Jr. and UFC superstar Conor McGregor, while wildly successful financially, didn’t break the pay-per-view record for combat sports. Mayweather’s maligned win against Manny Pacquiao still owns that distinction.
Roughly 4.6 million consumers purchased Mayweather-Pacquiao in May 2015. Based on the mainstream traction Mayweather-McGregor gained during their infamous four-city, three-country promotional tour in July, some involved in the event, most notably UFC president Dana White, thought Mayweather-McGregor would surpass 5 million buys.
Det skall noteras att väldigt många hade problem med att få igång matchen då flertalet servrar hade kraschat inför matchen.De må inte ha slagit PPV-rekordet för deras match men tomhänta går de inte därifrån. McGregor vs. Mayweather boxades mot varandra på T-Mobile Arena i Las Vegas den 26:e augusti. Mayweather vann matchen genom teknisk knockout i rond tio.
