The pay-per-view numbers for Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s win over Manny Pacquiao have started to roll in, and the results are more incredible than anyone expected. In the end, both fighters are going to end up with a payday that is nearly impossible to wrap your brain around.
What type of dough are we talking? Mayweather could conceivably make over $250 million.
As LB noted previously, the pay-per-view buys could double the previous high and wind up somewhere near 5.625 million. John Branch of the New York Times explained last month that 30-40 percent of the PPV revenue goes to cable, satellite and telephone providers, 7.