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Pay-per-view

October 17, 2023

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Pay-per-view (PPV) is a type of pay television or webcast service that enables a viewer to pay to watch individual events via private telecast.

Events can be purchased through a multichannel television platform using their electronic program guide, an automated telephone system, or through a live customer service representative. There has been an increasing number of pay-per-views distributed via streaming video online, either alongside or in lieu of carriage through television providers. In 2012, the popular video sharing platform YouTube began to allow partners to host live PPV events on the platform.[1]

Events distributed through PPV typically include boxing, mixed martial arts, professional wrestling, and concerts. In the past, PPV was often used to distribute telecasts of feature films, as well as adult content such as pornographic films, but the growth of digital cable and streaming media caused these uses to be subsumed by video on demand systems (which allow viewers to purchase and view pre-recorded content at any time) instead, leaving PPV to focus primarily on live event programs and combat sports.

History Edit

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.[2][3] The first fight with a closed-circuit telecast was Joe Louis vs. Jersey Joe Walcott in 1948.[4] Closed-circuit telecasts peaked in popularity with Muhammad Ali in the 1960s and 1970s,[2][3] with "The Rumble in the Jungle" fight drawing 50 million buys worldwide in 1974,[5] and the "Thrilla in Manila" drawing 100 million buys worldwide in 1975.[6] Closed-circuit television was gradually replaced by pay-per-view home television in the 1980s and 1990s.[3]

United States Edit

The Zenith Phonevision system became the first home pay-per-view system to be tested in the United States. Developed in 1951, it used telephone lines to take and receive orders, as well as to descramble a television broadcast signal. The field tests conducted for Phonevision lasted for 90 days and were tested in Chicago, Illinois. The system used IBM punch cards to descramble a signal broadcast during the broadcast station's "off-time". Both systems showed promise, but the Federal Communications Commission denied them the permits to operate.[7]

One of the earliest pay-per-view systems on cable television, the Optical Systems-developed Channel 100, first began service in 1972 in San Diego, California through Mission Cable[8] (which was later acquired by Cox Communications) and TheaterVisioN, which operated out of Sarasota, Florida. These early systems quickly went out of business, as the cable industry adopted satellite technology and as flat-rate pay television services such as Home Box Office (HBO) became popular.

While most pay-per-view services were delivered via cable, there were a few over-the-air pay TV stations that offered pay-per-view broadcasts in addition to regularly scheduled broadcasts of movies and other entertainment. These stations, which operated for a few years in Chicago, Los Angeles and some other cities, broadcast "scrambled" signals that required descrambler devices to convert the signal into standard broadcast format. These services were marketed as ON-TV.

Professional boxing during 1960s–1970s Edit

The first home pay-per-view cable television broadcast was the Floyd Patterson vs. Ingemar Johansson rematch in 1960, when 25,000 TelePrompTer subscribers mailed $2 to watch Patterson regain the heavyweight title.[9] The third Patterson–Johansson match in 1961 was later viewed by 100,000 paid cable subscribers.[10] Muhammad Ali had several fights on early pay-per-view home television, including Cassius Clay vs. Doug Jones in 1963,[11] and Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston[12] which drew 250,000 buys on cable television in 1964.[13]

Professional boxing was largely introduced to pay-per-view cable television with the "Thrilla in Manila" fight between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier in September 1975. The fight sold 500,000 pay-per-view buys on HBO.[14] There was also another major title fight aired on pay-per-view in 1980, when Roberto Durán defeated Sugar Ray Leonard. Cable companies offered the match for $10, and about 155,000 customers paid to watch the fight.[15][16]

1980s–2000s Edit

A major pay-per-view event[citation needed] occurred on September 16, 1981, when Sugar Ray Leonard fought Thomas "Hitman" Hearns for the World Welterweight Championship. Viacom Cablevision in Nashville, Tennessee – the first system to offer the event – saw over 50 percent of its subscriber base purchase the fight.[citation needed] Leonard visited Nashville to promote the fight, and the event proved such a success that Viacom themed its annual report for that year around it.[citation needed] Viacom marketing director Pat Thompson put together the fight, and subsequently put together additional PPV fights, wrestling matches, and even a televised Broadway play.[citation needed]

After leaving Viacom, Thompson became head of Sports View and produced the first pay-per-view football game on October 16, 1983: a college football game between the University of Tennessee and the University of Alabama from Birmingham, Alabama.[citation needed] Sports View played a role in building pay-per-view networks,[citation needed] and became the early pioneer in developing TigerVision for Louisiana State University, TideVision for Alabama and UT Vol Seat for Tennessee. Sports View also produced the Ohio State-Michigan football game for pay-per-view in November 1983.

In 1985, the first pay-per-view cable channels in the United States – Viewer's Choice (now In Demand), Cable Video Store, First Choice and Request TV – began operation within days of each other.[citation needed] Viewer's Choice serviced both home satellite dish and cable customers, while Request TV, though broadcasting to cable viewers, would not become available to satellite subscribers until the 1990s.[citation needed] First Choice PPV was available on Rogers Cablesystems in the United States and Canada. After Paragon Cable acquired the Rogers Cablesystems franchise in San Antonio, Texas, First Choice continued to be carried until Time Warner Cable bought Paragon in 1996. In the United States, pay-per-view broadcasters transmit without advertisements, similar to conventional flat-rate pay television services.

The term "pay-per-view" did not come into general use until the late 1980s[citation needed] when companies such as Viewer's Choice, HBO and Showtime started using the system to show movies and some of their productions. Viewer's Choice carried movies, concerts and other events, with live sporting events such as WrestleMania being the most predominant programming. Prices ranged from $3.99 to $49.99, while HBO and Showtime, with their event production legs TVKO and SET Pay Per View, would offer championship boxing matches ranging from $14.99 to $54.99.[citation needed]

ESPN later began to broadcast college football and basketball games on pay-per-view through its services ESPN GamePlan and ESPN Full Court, which were eventually sold as full-time out-of-market sports packages.[citation needed] The boxing undercard Latin Fury, shown on June 28, 2003, became ESPN's first boxing card on pay-per-view and also the first pay-per-view boxing card held in Puerto Rico.[citation needed] Pay-per-view has provided a revenue stream for professional wrestling circuits such as WWE, Impact Wrestling, All Elite Wrestling (AEW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Ring of Honor (ROH) and Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (AAA).

WWE chairman and chief executive officer Vince McMahon is considered by many as one of the icons of pay-per-view promotion. McMahon owns the domain name payperview.com, which redirects to the WWE Network website.[17]

With the rise of direct broadcast satellite services in the 1990s, this meant more services exclusively for DBS users appeared. DirecTV had Direct Ticket (which, in addition to movies and special events, also included PPV sports packages, most notably NFL Sunday Ticket), while Dish Network had Dish On Demand. PrimeStar, on the other hand, utilized pre-existing services like Viewer's Choice and Request TV (as it was owned by a number of major cable providers), though promotional material bannered all PPV services under the name of PrimeCinema.

HBO PPV (professional boxing) Edit

In 2006, HBO generated 3.7 million pay-per-view buys with $177 million in gross sales. The only year with more buys previously, 1999, had a total of 4 million. The former record fell in 2007 when HBO sold 4.8 million PPV buys with $255 million in sales.[18] BY 2014, HBO had generated 59.3 million buys and $3.1 billion in revenue since its 1991 debut with Evander Holyfield-George Foreman.[19]

1999 differed radically from 2006: 1999 saw four major fight cards: De La Hoya-Trinidad (1.4 million buys), Holyfield-Lewis I (1.2 million), Holyfield-Lewis II (850,000) and De La Hoya-Quartey (570,000). By contrast, only one pay-per-view mega-fight took place in 2006: De La Hoya-Mayorga (925,000 buys). Rahman-Maskaev bombed with under 50,000. The other eight PPV cards that year all fell in the 325,000–450,000 range. Pay-per-view fights in that range almost always generate more money for the promoter and fighters than HBO wants to pay for an HBO World Championship Boxing license-fee.[citation needed]

In May 2007, the junior middleweight boxing match between Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. on HBO PPV became the biggest-selling non-heavyweight title fight, with a little more than 2.5 million buyers.[20] The fight itself generated roughly $139 million in domestic PPV revenue, making it the most lucrative prizefight of that era. The record stood until 2015 before it was broken by Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao in a fight dubbed as the "Fight of the Century" on May 2, 2015, which generated 4.6 million ppv buys and a revenue of over $400 million.[21]

The leading PPV attraction, Floyd Mayweather Jr. has generated approximately 24 million buys and $1.6 billion in revenue. Manny Pacquiao, ranked second, has generated approximately 20.1 million buys and $1.2 billion in revenue.[22][23] Oscar De La Hoya, has "sold" approximately 14 million units in total, giving $700 million in domestic television receipts and stands third. In fourth place in buys, Evander Holyfield has achieved 12.6 million units ($550 million); and at fifth, Mike Tyson has reached 12.4 million units ($545 million).[24]

Ross Greenburg, then president of HBO Sports, called the expansion of pay-per-view "the biggest economic issue in boxing", stating "I can't tell you that pay-per-view helps the sport because it doesn't. It hurts the sport because it narrows our audience, but it's a fact of life. Every time we try to make an HBO World Championship Boxing fight, we're up against mythical pay-per-view numbers. HBO doesn't make a lot of money from pay-per-view. There's usually a cap on what we can make. But the promoters and fighters insist on pay-per-view because that's where their greatest profits lie."[25]

"It's a big problem," Greenburg continues. "It's getting harder and harder to put fighters like Manny Pacquiao on HBO World Championship Boxing. If Floyd Mayweather beats Oscar, he might never fight on HBO World Championship Boxing again. But if HBO stopped doing pay-per-view, the promoters would simply do it on their own [like Bob Arum did with Cotto-Malignaggi in June 2006] or find someone else who will do it for them."[25]

Former HBO Sports President Seth Abraham concurs, saying, "I think, if Lou (DiBella) and I were still at HBO, we'd be in the same pickle as far as the exodus of fights to pay-per-view is concerned."[26]

Ultimate Fighting Championship Edit

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), a mixed martial arts promotion, was a relative newcomer to the PPV market. However, the promotion experienced a surge in popularity in the mid-2000s, credited initially to the popularity of an associated reality show on the cable channel Spike, The Ultimate Fighter. UFC 52—the first UFC event since its premiere, broke the promotion's record with almost 300,000 buys (in comparison to 250,000 for UFC 5).[27][28] PPV numbers escalated further in 2006, with its events taking in a gross revenue of $222 million.[29] In October 2016, it was reported that 42% of the UFC's "content revenue" in 2015 came from pay-per-view buys, followed by U.S. and international media rights.

In 2018, UFC 229 would pull an all-time record for the promotion, with estimates indicating that the event attracted nearly 2.4 million buys, breaking the 1.65 million buy record set by UFC 202.[30]

In March 2019, as part of a larger contract with ESPN for media rights in the United States, it was announced that future UFC pay-per-views will only be sold to subscribers of the network's streaming service ESPN+.[31][32]

Professional wrestling Edit

Professional wrestling has a long history of running pay-per-view events. WWE (then WWF) launched its first pay-per-view event in 1985 with its annual flagship event WrestleMania and has run numerous others throughout the years. Although it still offers its events via traditional PPV outlets, they have also been included at no additional charge as part of a larger, subscription-based streaming service known as WWE Network, which as of 2021 is now a part of the NBCUniversal streaming service Peacock in the United States. The service also includes original programming (such as documentary-style series and other wrestling programs) and an on-demand archive of events and television episodes from WWE's library. Following WrestleMania 34, the service had 2.12 million subscribers.[33][34] Since the beginning of 2022, WWE has ceased using the term "pay-per-view" and replaced it with "Premium Live Events" in promotional materials, to emphasize their carriage via subscription platforms.[35]

Other major organizations such as World Championship Wrestling, Extreme Championship Wrestling, Impact Wrestling, Ring of Honor, and All Elite Wrestling have also run pay-per-view events.

Concerts Edit

In 1999, Woodstock 1999 was broadcast via PPV from Rome, New York for people who wanted to attend but could not. The cameras were a cause of the downfall of the event.

In 2015, PPV broadcasts of the Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead tour set a record for buys for a music event, with over 400,000.[36]

United Kingdom and Ireland Edit

Viewers in the United Kingdom and Ireland can access pay-per-view via satellite, cable and over-the-internet television services, mainly for films, boxing, mixed martial arts and American professional wrestling via services such as Sky Box Office and BT Sport Box Office. The last couple of years has seen the number of pay-per-view boxing events significantly increase and currently all of the UK's top fights are only available via pay-per-view. Broadcasters (most notably PremPlus) have abandoned their aspirations to introduce PPV into other sports market due to poor interest from the public.

In October 2020 during the 2020-21 season, the Premier League experimented with PPV telecasts of football matches not selected for broadcasts by its main rightsholders (which are usually blacked out 3:00 p.m. kickoffs, amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, which prevents any attendance of the matches). However, the matches proved unpopular, with team supporters' groups urging fans to make donations to charity instead, and the Premier League announcing that it would allocate the extra matches among its existing rightsholders (BT and Sky, as well as Amazon Prime Video and BBC Sport, with some on free-to-air TV) through at least the end of 2020, as it had done during the conclusion of the previous season.[37][38][39][40]

Canada Edit

In Canada, most specialty television providers provide pay-per-view programming through one or more services. In all cases, prices typically range from around C$4.99 (for movies) up to $50 or more for special events.

Initially, there were three major PPV providers in Canada; Viewers Choice operated in Eastern Canada as a joint venture of Astral Media, Rogers Communications, and TSN. Western International Communications operated a separate service in the west initially known as Home Theatre; it was later rebranded as Viewers Choice under license.

Viewers Choice Canada was a partner in a French-language PPV service known as Canal Indigo, which is now entirely owned by Videotron. Bell Canada launched a PPV service for its ExpressVu television provider known as Vu! in 1999.

Home Theatre was later acquired by Shaw Communications; after gaining permission to operate nationally, it re-branded as a white-label PPV known internally as Shaw PPV in December 2007. In 2014, due to Bell Media's majority ownership of Viewers Choice because of its acquisition of Astral, and because both Bell and Rogers now ran their own in-house PPV operations (Vu! and Sportsnet PPV), Viewers Choice was shut down.[41]

Mainland Europe Edit

In Romania, cable communications operator UPC Romania has notified the National Audiovisual Council (CNA) on the intention to introduce in January, February 2014 at the latest, an on-demand audiovisual media service called Agerpres. According to the manager of UPC Romania-owned Smaranda Radoi UPC, will allow customers to watch movies on demand or live events; as well as broadcasts of performances, concerts and sporting events.

In November 2008, pay-per-view made its debut in Albania through Digitalb on terrestrial and satellite television, with the channel DigiGold.[42]

In France, launched in the late 1990s, Canalsat (Ciné+) and TPS (Multivision) operate their own pay-per-view service. While CanalSat holds the rights to live soccer matches for France's Ligue 1, TPS had the rights for Boxe matches. In 2007, Multivision service ceased by the end of TPS service which merged with Canalsat. Nowadays, Ciné+ is the only existing pay-per-view service in France.

In Croatia, Fight Channel is broadcasting martial arts events organized by the world's most prominent fighting organizations, such as the UFC, K-1, HBO Boxing, Dream, Glory WS, World Series of Boxing etc. and its pay-per-view service covers the Balkans region.

Sky Deutschland, accessible in Germany, Austria and partially in Switzerland, provided nine PPV-Channels called "Sky Select", where their regular Pay-TV customers can see movies or various sports events such as boxing or soccer.[43] As of 1. October 2020 only sport and wrestling events remained on PPV as movies were changed towards a streaming service.[44]

South America Edit

Per nations with Pay-Per-View or PPV system in South América:

In Argentina, Torneos y Competencias is a producer and sports events organization that are broadcasts live main matches of Argentine Soccer in four categories on TyC Sports, TyC Max (six channels), TyC Sports 2, TyC Sports 4 and TyC Sports 5.

In Brazil, in the soccer main matches of Serie A (Six games per matchday) and Serie B (Four games per matchday) in two categories of Brazilian Soccer are broadcast live on Premiere FC and SporTV. The Serie C Championship are broadcast live on SporTV with two games per matchday in Pay TV. In other sports are broadcast live on NBB TV (Exclusive channel of Brazilian Basketball League in Premium system).

In Chile, the exclusive rights of Chilean Soccer are owned by TV Fútbol and broadcast live on a channel called Canal Del Fútbol (The Soccer Channel), also known CDF. Sports Field S.A. has exclusive rights to games on the Chilean professional basketball league, which are broadcast live vía CDO (Premium Signal).

In Paraguay, the Teledeportes producer business have exclusive rights to broadcast live main matches of Paraguayan Soccer in four categories vía Tigo Max and Tigo Sports. Teledeportes have live broadcast of Paraguayan Basketball League broadcast Tuesday at 9:00 pm on Tigo Sports (K.O 21:15) and Wednesday at 8:55 pm on Tigo Max (K.O 21:10).

In Uruguay, the Tenfield producer business and sports events organization have television exclusive rights for the Uruguayan soccer and basketball club championships, which are broadcast on VTV and VTV Plus.

Australia and the Pacific Islands Edit

Foxtel and Optus Vision introduced pay-per-view direct to home television in Australia in the mid-to-late 1990s. Foxtel had Event TV (until it transformed into its current form; Main Event) while, Optus Vision had Main Attraction Pay-Per-View as its provider. As of 2005, Main Event is the current pay-per-view provider through Foxtel and Optus cable/satellite subscription.

Sky Pacific started a service in Fiji in 2005 and then expanded into American Samoa, Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati (East), Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu, with one, out of their 25 channels, being Pay-Per-View.[45]

Asia Edit

In Malaysia, Astro's Astro Box Office service launched in 2000 in the form of the free-to-air "Astro Showcase".

In Japan, SkyPerfecTV subscribers can receive one-click pay-per-view access to hundreds of channels supplying domestic and international sporting events (including WWE events), movies, and specialty programming, either live or later on continuous repeat on its channel.

In India a pay-per-view service operates; however, pay-per-view sports broadcasts are available. Now also live events like WWE.[citation needed]

List of largest pay-per-view markets Edit

Largest pay-per-view markets (as of 2021)[46]
Rank Country Annual revenue (2021)
1 United States $2,060,000,000
2 United Kingdom $1,180,000,000
3 Japan $1,130,000,000
4 Germany $620,000,000
5 China $460,000,000

List of pay-per-view bouts Edit

Boxing Edit

Worldwide Edit

The following is a list of boxing fights that have generated over 1 million pay-per-view buys worldwide. These figures include closed-circuit theatre television (CCTV), pay-per-view home television (PPV), and pay-per-view online streaming (iPPV).

   — Fights which held the worldwide record in terms of sales and/or revenue
Date Fight Network(s) Sales Revenue (est.) Revenue (est. inflation)
March 8, 1971 Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier

Closed-circuit theatre TV

2,590,000[47][48] $45,750,000[49][50] $300,000,000
October 30, 1974 Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman

Closed-circuit theatre TV

50,000,000[5] $100,000,000[51][52] $600,000,000
October 1, 1975 Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier III

Closed-circuit theatre TV
HBO

100,000,000[6][dubious – discuss] $100,000,000 $500,000,000
September 27, 1976 Muhammad Ali vs. Ken Norton III

Closed-circuit theatre TV

1,500,000[53] $33,500,000[54][55] $170,000,000
June 20, 1980 Roberto Durán vs. Sugar Ray Leonard

Closed-circuit theatre TV HBO

1,655,000[56][15] $30,000,000[57] $110,000,000
June 11, 1982 Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney

Closed-circuit theatre TV

2,000,000[58] $20,000,000[3] $60,000,000
April 6, 1987 Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Marvin Hagler

Closed-circuit theatre TV HBO

3,150,000[3] $60,000,000[59] $150,000,000
June 27, 1988 Mike Tyson vs. Michael Spinks

Closed-circuit theatre TV
HBO

1,500,000[60][61] $70,000,000[59] $170,000,000
April 19, 1991 Evander Holyfield vs. George Foreman

HBO

1,400,000[62] $75,000,000[63] $160,000,000
June 28, 1991 Mike Tyson vs. Donovan Ruddock II

Showtime

1,250,000[64] $49,142,000[65][66] $110,000,000
August 19, 1995 Mike Tyson vs. Peter McNeeley

Showtime

1,600,000[67] $110,000,000[68][69] $210,000,000
March 16, 1996 Frank Bruno vs. Mike Tyson II

Showtime Sky Box Office

2,060,000[67][70] $98,000,000[71] $183,000,000
September 7, 1996 Mike Tyson vs. Bruce Seldon

Showtime

1,150,000[62] $63,810,000[67] $119,000,000
November 9, 1996 Mike Tyson vs. Evander Holyfield

Showtime

1,600,000[67] $94,200,000[67] $180,000,000
June 28, 1997 Mike Tyson vs. Evander Holyfield II

Showtime
Sky Box Office
Closed-circuit theatre TV

2,670,000[3][72][73] $180,000,000[74] $330,000,000
September 18, 1999 Oscar De La Hoya vs. Félix Trinidad

HBO

1,400,000[62] $74,100,000[75] $130,000,000
June 8, 2002 Lennox Lewis vs. Mike Tyson

HBO
Showtime
Sky Box Office

2,720,000[62][76] $112,000,000[77] $182,000,000
May 5, 2007 Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.

HBO
Closed-circuit theatre TV

2,450,000[62][78] $165,000,000[79] $200,000,000
December 8, 2007 Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Ricky Hatton

HBO
Sky Box Office

2,400,000[80] $134,000,000[80] $190,000,000
December 6, 2008 Oscar De La Hoya vs. Manny Pacquiao

HBO

1,250,000[62] $100,000,000[79] $140,000,000
May 2, 2009 Manny Pacquiao vs. Ricky Hatton

HBO
Sky Box Office

1,750,000[81][82] $80,200,000[a] $109,000,000
September 19, 2009 Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Juan Manuel Márquez

HBO

1,060,000[83] $58,810,000[84] $80,000,000
November 14, 2009 Manny Pacquiao vs. Miguel Cotto

HBO

1,250,000[85] $78,850,000[86] $108,000,000
May 1, 2010 Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Shane Mosley

HBO

1,400,000[62] $89,330,000[87][69] $120,000,000
November 13, 2010 Manny Pacquiao vs. Antonio Margarito

HBO

1,150,000[88] $69,400,000[89] $90,000,000
May 7, 2011 Manny Pacquiao vs. Shane Mosley

Showtime

1,340,000[90] $83,900,000[91] $109,000,000
September 17, 2011 Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs Victor Ortiz

HBO

1,250,000[92] $87,440,000[93][69] $114,000,000
November 13, 2011 Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Márquez III

HBO

1,400,000[94] $88,580,000[95][69] $120,000,000
May 5, 2012 Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Miguel Cotto

HBO

1,500,000[96] $94,000,000[68] $120,000,000
December 8, 2012 Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Márquez IV

HBO

1,150,000[97] $80,400,000[98] $100,000,000
September 14, 2013 Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Canelo Álvarez

Showtime

2,200,000[99] $150,000,000[21] $190,000,000
May 2, 2015 Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao

HBO
Showtime
Sky Box Office
Closed-circuit theatre TV

5,773,000[100][101][102] $500,000,000[103] $500,000,000
April 29, 2017 Anthony Joshua vs. Wladimir Klitschko

Sky Box Office

1,631,000[104] $68,000,000[105] $68,000,000
August 26, 2017 Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor

Showtime
Sky Box Office

5,174,000 $500,000,000[106] $500,000,000
September 16, 2017 Canelo Álvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin

HBO

1,300,000[107] $100,000,000[107] $100,000,000
March 31, 2018 Anthony Joshua vs. Joseph Parker

Sky Box Office

1,832,000[108][104] $60,000,000[109][110] $60,000,000
August 25, 2018 KSI vs. Logan Paul

YouTube

1,300,000[111] $16,500,000[112][113] $16,500,000
Sep 15, 2018 Canelo Álvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin II

HBO

1,100,000[114] $117,000,000[114] $117,000,000
Sept 22, 2018 Anthony Joshua vs. Alexander Povetkin

Sky Box Office

1,247,000[115][104] $54,000,000[116][117][110] $53,000,000
November 9, 2019 KSI vs. Logan Paul II Sky Box Office

DAZN

2,000,000[118]
December 7, 2019 Andy Ruiz Jr. vs. Anthony Joshua II

Sky Box Office

1,575,000[119]
February 22, 2020 Deontay Wilder vs. Tyson Fury II

ESPN
Fox Sports

1,200,000[120] $112,900,000[121]
November 28, 2020 Mike Tyson vs. Roy Jones Jr.

Triller

1,600,000[122] $80,000,000[122] $80,000,000[122]
June 6, 2021 Floyd Mayweather Jr vs. Logan Paul Showtime 1,000,000[123] $50,000,000[124]

United States (closed-circuit theatre TV) Edit

Select boxing buy rates at American closed-circuit theatre television venues between 1951 and 2015:

   — Fights which held the US closed-circuit sales record in terms of buys and/or revenue
Date Fight Buys Revenue Revenue (inflation)
June 15, 1951 Joe Louis vs. Lee Savold 81,022[125] $100,000[126] $1,130,000
September 12, 1951 Sugar Ray Robinson vs. Randolph Turpin II 100,000[127] $200,000[127] $2,250,000
September 23, 1952 Rocky Marciano vs. Joe Walcott 40,000[128] $192,000[129] $2,120,000
September 21, 1955 Rocky Marciano vs. Archie Moore 300,000[130] $1,125,000[131] $12,290,000
September 23, 1957 Sugar Ray Robinson vs. Carmen Basilio 500,000[132] $1,750,000[133] $15,630,000
March 25, 1958 Sugar Ray Robinson vs. Carmen Basilio II 400,000[134] $2,000,000[135] $20,290,000
August 18, 1958 Floyd Patterson vs. Roy Harris 192,762[136] $763,437[136] $7,660,000
June 26, 1959 Floyd Patterson vs. Ingemar Johansson 244,000[137] $1,032,000[137] $10,360,000
June 20, 1960 Floyd Patterson vs. Ingemar Johansson II 500,000[138] $3,000,000[139] $29,680,000
March 13, 1961 Floyd Patterson vs. Ingemar Johansson III 500,000[140] $2,500,000[140] $24,480,000
September 25, 1962 Floyd Patterson vs. Sonny Liston 600,000[141] $3,200,000[47] $30,960,000
March 13, 1963 Cassius Clay vs. Doug Jones 150,000[142] $500,000[11] $4,780,000
July 22, 1963 Floyd Patterson vs. Sonny Liston II 563,000[47] $4,747,690[143] $45,930,000
February 25, 1964 Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston 700,000[144] $5,000,000[144] $47,200,000
January 2, 1965 Floyd Patterson vs. George Chuvalo 300,000[145] $800,000[146] $7,430,000
May 25, 1965 Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston II 630,000[147] $4,300,000[2] $39,930,000
November 22, 1965 Muhammad Ali vs. Floyd Patterson 500,000[148] $4,000,000[2] $37,100,000
November 14, 1966 Muhammad Ali vs. Cleveland Williams 500,000[149] $3,750,000[149] $34,820,000
February 6, 1967 Muhammad Ali vs. Ernie Terrell 800,000[150] $4,000,000[150] $36,080,000
October 26, 1970 Muhammad Ali vs. Jerry Quarry 630,000[151][152] $3,500,000[153] $26,370,000
March 8, 1971 Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier 2,500,000[47] $45,000,000[49] $325,000,000
October 30, 1974 Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman 3,000,000[3] $60,000,000[3] $360,000,000
October 1, 1975 Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier III 3,000,000[3] $60,000,000[3] $300,000,000
September 27, 1976 Muhammad Ali vs. Ken Norton III 1,500,000[53] $30,000,000[54] $150,000,000
Jun 20, 1980 Roberto Durán vs. Sugar Ray Leonard 1,500,000[56] $22,000,000[154] $78,140,000
June 11, 1982 Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney 2,000,000[58] $20,000,000[3] $60,650,000
April 15, 1985 Marvin Hagler vs. Thomas Hearns 700,000[155] $10,500,000[156] $28,570,000
April 6, 1987 Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Marvin Hagler 3,000,000[3] $40,000,000[157] $103,030,000
June 27, 1988 Mike Tyson vs. Michael Spinks 800,000[60] $32,000,000[60] $79,180,000
June 28, 1997 Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson II 120,000[73] $9,000,000[3] $16,410,000
May 5, 2007 Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. 50,000[78] $2,750,000[158] $3,880,000
May 2, 2015 Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao 173,000[102] $25,900,000[102] $31,980,000

United States (PPV home television) Edit

Select PPV boxing buy-rates between 1960 and 2023:

   — Fights which held the US sales record on PPV home television
Date Fight Result Carrier Buy rate
June 20, 1960 Floyd Patterson vs. Ingemar Johansson II Patterson wins by KO in round 5 TelePrompTer 25,000[9]
March 13, 1961 Floyd Patterson vs. Ingemar Johansson III Patterson wins by KO in round 6 TelePrompTer 100,000[10]
September 25, 1962 Floyd Patterson vs. Sonny Liston Liston wins by KO in round 1 TelePrompTer 100,000[159]
February 25, 1964 Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston Ali wins by RTD in round 6 WHCT[12] 250,000[13]
Oct 1, 1975 Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier III Ali wins by TKO in round 14 HBO 500,000[14]
Jun 20, 1980 Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Roberto Durán Durán wins by UD (145–144, 148–147, 146–144) HBO 155,000[15]
Sep 16, 1981 Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns Leonard wins by TKO in round 14 HBO 583,200[160]
Apr 15, 1985 Marvin Hagler vs. Thomas Hearns Hagler wins by TKO in round 3 HBO 100,000[155]
Apr 6, 1987 Marvin Hagler vs. Sugar Ray Leonard Leonard wins by SD (118–110, 113–115, 115–113) HBO 150,000[3]
Jun 27, 1988 Mike Tyson vs. Michael Spinks Tyson wins by KO in round 1 HBO 700,000[61]
Nov 7, 1988 Donny Lalonde vs. Sugar Ray Leonard Leonard wins by TKO in round 9 HBO 700,000[161]
Oct 25, 1990 Buster Douglas vs. Evander Holyfield Holyfield wins by KO in round 3 Showtime 1,000,000[61]
March 18, 1991 Mike Tyson vs. Donovan Ruddock Tyson wins by TKO in round 7 Showtime 960,000[162]
Apr 19, 1991 Evander Holyfield vs. George Foreman Holyfield wins by UD (116–111, 117–110, 115–112) HBO 1,400,000[62]
Jun 28, 1991 Mike Tyson vs. Donovan Ruddock II Tyson wins by UD (113–109, 114–108, 114–108) Showtime 1,250,000[64]
Oct 18, 1991 Ray Mercer vs. Tommy Morrison Mercer wins by KO in round 5 HBO 200,000[163]
Jun 19, 1992 Evander Holyfield vs. Larry Holmes Holyfield wins by UD (117–111, 116–112, 116–112) HBO 730,000[164]
Sep 12, 1992 Julio César Chávez vs. Héctor Camacho Chavez wins by UD (110–119, 111–117, 107–120) Showtime 800,000[165]
Nov 13, 1992 Evander Holyfield vs. Riddick Bowe Bowe wins by UD (117–110, 117–110, 115–112) HBO 900,000[166]
Jun 7, 1993 George Foreman vs. Tommy Morrison Morrison wins by UD (117–110, 117–110, 118–108) HBO 600,000[167]
Sep 10, 1993 Pernell Whitaker vs. Julio César Chávez Majority draw (115–113, 115–115, 115–115) Showtime 740,000[168]
Nov 6, 1993 Riddick Bowe vs. Evander Holyfield II Holyfield wins by MD (115–113, 115–114, 114–114) HBO 950,000[169]
Nov 18, 1994 James Toney vs. Roy Jones Jr. Jones Jr. wins by UD (119–108, 118–109, 117–110) HBO 300,000[170]
May 6, 1995 Oscar De La Hoya vs. Rafael Ruelas De La Hoya wins by TKO in round 2 HBO 330,000[171]
Aug 19, 1995 Mike Tyson vs. Peter McNeeley Tyson wins by DQ in round 1 Showtime 1,600,000[67]
Nov 4, 1995 Riddick Bowe vs. Evander Holyfield III Bowe wins by TKO in round 8 HBO 650,000[172]
Mar 16, 1996 Frank Bruno vs. Mike Tyson II Tyson wins by TKO in round 3 Showtime 1,400,000[67]
Sep 7, 1996 Mike Tyson vs. Bruce Seldon Tyson wins by TKO in round 1 Showtime 1,150,000[62]
Nov 9, 1996 Mike Tyson vs. Evander Holyfield Holyfield wins by TKO in round 11 Showtime 1,600,000[67]
Apr 12, 1997 Pernell Whitaker vs. Oscar De La Hoya De La Hoya wins by UD (115–111, 116–110, 116–110) HBO 720,000[173]
Jun 28, 1997 Mike Tyson vs. Evander Holyfield II Holyfield wins by DQ in round 3 Showtime 1,990,000[62]
Sep 13, 1997 Oscar De La Hoya vs. Héctor Camacho De La Hoya wins by UD (120–106, 120–105, 118–108) HBO 560,000[173]
Oct 4, 1997 Lennox Lewis vs. Andrew Golota Lewis wins by KO in round 1 HBO 300,000[174]
Nov 8, 1997 Evander Holyfield vs. Michael Moorer II Holyfield wins by RTD in round 8 Showtime 550,000[175]
Jan 16, 1999 Mike Tyson vs. Francois Botha Tyson wins by KO in round 5 Showtime 750,000[176]
Mar 13, 1999 Evander Holyfield vs. Lennox Lewis Split draw (116–113, 113–115, 115–115) HBO 1,200,000[177]
Sep 18, 1999 Oscar De La Hoya vs. Félix Trinidad Trinidad wins by MD (115–113, 115–114, 114–114) HBO 1,400,000[62]
Nov 13, 1999 Evander Holyfield vs. Lennox Lewis II Lewis wins by UD (116–112, 117–111, 115–113) HBO 850,000[177]
Apr 29, 2000 Lennox Lewis vs. Michael Grant Lewis wins by KO in round 2 HBO 340,000[177]
Jun 17, 2000 Oscar De La Hoya vs. Shane Mosley Mosley wins by SD (116–112, 115–113, 113–115) HBO 590,000[173]
Sep 9, 2000 Roy Jones Jr. vs. Eric Harding Jones Jr. wins by RTD in round 10 HBO 125,000[178]
Oct 20, 2000 Mike Tyson vs. Andrew Golota Tyson wins by TKO in round 3 (later changed to an NC) Showtime 450,000[179]
Nov 11, 2000 Lennox Lewis vs. David Tua Lewis wins by UD (119–109, 118–110, 117–111) HBO 420,000[177]
Mar 3, 2001 Evander Holyfield vs. John Ruiz II Ruiz wins by UD (116–110, 115–111, 114–111) Showtime 185,000[180]
Apr 7, 2001 Naseem Hamed vs. Marco Antonio Barrera Barrera wins by UD (116–111, 115–112, 115–112) HBO 310,000[181]
Jun 8, 2001 Laila Ali vs. Jacqui Frazier-Lyde Ali wins by MD (73–79, 75–77, 76–76) ? 125,000[182]
Nov 17, 2001 Hasim Rahman vs. Lennox Lewis II Lewis wins by KO in round 4 HBO 460,000[183]
Jun 8, 2002 Lennox Lewis vs. Mike Tyson Lewis wins by KO in round 8 HBO/Showtime 1,970,000[62]
Sep 14, 2002 Oscar De La Hoya vs. Fernando Vargas De La Hoya wins by TKO in round 11 HBO 935,000[173]
Feb 22, 2003 Mike Tyson vs. Clifford Etienne Tyson wins by KO in round 1 Showtime 100,000[180]
Mar 1, 2003 John Ruiz vs. Roy Jones Jr. Jones Jr. wins by UD (118–110, 117–111, 116–112) HBO 525,000[180]
Sep 13, 2003 Oscar De La Hoya vs. Shane Mosley II Mosley wins by UD (113–115, 113–115, 113–115) HBO 950,000[173]
Oct 4, 2003 James Toney vs. Evander Holyfield Toney wins by TKO in round 9 Showtime 150,000[184]
Nov 8, 2003 Antonio Tarver vs. Roy Jones Jr. Jones Jr. wins by MD (117–111, 116–112, 114–114) HBO 302,000[185]
May 15, 2004 Roy Jones Jr. vs. Antonio Tarver II Tarver wins by KO in round 2 HBO 360,000[186]
Sep 18, 2004 Bernard Hopkins vs. Oscar De La Hoya Hopkins wins by KO in round 9 HBO 1,000,000[173]
Dec 11, 2004 Vitali Klitschko vs. Danny Williams Klitschko wins by TKO in round 8 HBO 120,000[187]
Mar 19, 2005 Érik Morales vs. Manny Pacquiao Morales wins by UD (115–113, 115–113, 115–113) HBO 345,000[188]
Jun 11, 2005 Mike Tyson vs. Kevin McBride McBride wins by TKO in round 7 Showtime 250,000[189]
Jun 25, 2005 Arturo Gatti vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. Mayweather Jr. wins by RTD in round 6 HBO 340,000[188]
Oct 1, 2005 Antonio Tarver vs. Roy Jones Jr. III Tarver wins by UD (117–111, 116–112, 116–112) HBO 405,000[190]
Jan 21, 2006 Manny Pacquiao vs Érik Morales II Pacquiao wins by TKO in round 10 HBO 360,000[191]
Feb 25, 2006 Shane Mosley vs Fernando Vargas Mosley wins by TKO in round 10 HBO 415,000[192]
Apr 8, 2006 Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Zab Judah Mayweather Jr. wins by UD (116–112, 117–111, 119–109) HBO 375,000[191]
May 6, 2006 Ricardo Mayorga vs. Oscar De La Hoya De La Hoya wins by TKO in round 6 HBO 925,000[193]
May 6, 2006 Manny Pacquiao vs. Óscar Larios Pacquiao wins by UD (117–110, 118–108, 120–106) Top Rank 120,000[194]
Jul 15, 2006 Shane Mosley vs Fernando Vargas II Mosley wins by TKO in round 6 HBO 350,000[192]
Aug 12, 2006 Hasim Rahman vs. Oleg Maskaev II Maskaev wins by TKO in round 12 HBO 60,000[195]
Nov 4, 2006 Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Carlos Baldomir Mayweather Jr. wins by UD (120–108, 120–108, 118–110) HBO 325,000[191]
Nov 18, 2006 Manny Pacquiao vs Érik Morales III Pacquiao wins by KO in round 3 HBO 350,000[191]
Apr 14, 2007 Manny Pacquiao vs Jorge Solís Pacquiao wins by KO in round 8 Top Rank 150,000[196]
May 5, 2007 Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. Mayweather Jr. wins by SD (116–112, 115–113, 113–115) HBO 2,400,000[62]
Oct 10, 2007 Manny Pacquiao vs. Marco Antonio Barrera II Pacquiao wins by UD (118–109, 118–109, 115–112) HBO 350,000[197]
Dec 8, 2007 Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Ricky Hatton Mayweather Jr. wins by TKO in round 10 HBO 920,000[83]
Jan 19, 2008 Félix Trinidad vs. Roy Jones Jr. Jones Jr. wins by UD (116–110, 117–109, 116–110) HBO 500,000[198]
Feb 16, 2008 Kelly Pavlik vs. Jermain Taylor II Pavlik wins by UD (115–113, 117–111, 116–112) HBO 250,000[198]
Mar 15, 2008 Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Márquez II Pacquiao wins by SD (115–112, 114–113, 112–115) HBO 400,000[199]
Jun 28, 2008 David Díaz vs. Manny Pacquiao Pacquiao wins by TKO in round 9 HBO 206,000[200]
Jul 26, 2008 Miguel Cotto vs. Antonio Margarito Margarito wins by TKO in round 11 HBO 450,000[201]
Nov 8, 2008 Joe Calzaghe vs. Roy Jones Jr. Calzaghe wins by UD (118–109, 118–109, 118–109) HBO 225,000[201]
Dec 6, 2008 Oscar De La Hoya vs. Manny Pacquiao Pacquiao wins by RTD in round 8 HBO 1,250,000[62]
May 2, 2009 Manny Pacquiao vs. Ricky Hatton Pacquiao wins by KO in round 2 HBO 850,000[81]
Sep 19, 2009 Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Juan Manuel Márquez Mayweather Jr. wins by UD (120–107, 119–108, 118–109) HBO 1,060,000[83]
Nov 14, 2009 Manny Pacquiao vs. Miguel Cotto Pacquiao wins by TKO in round 12 HBO 1,250,000[85]
Mar 13, 2010 Manny Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey Pacquiao wins by UD (119–109, 119–109, 120–108) HBO 700,000[202]
Apr 3, 2010 Bernard Hopkins vs. Roy Jones Jr. II Hopkins win by UD (118–109, 117–110, 117–110) HBO 150,000[203]
May 1, 2010 Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Shane Mosley Mayweather Jr. wins by UD (119–109, 118–110, 119–109) HBO 1,400,000[62]
Nov 13, 2010 Manny Pacquiao vs. Antonio Margarito Pacquiao wins by UD (120–108, 118–110, 119–109) HBO 1,150,000[88]
May 7, 2011 Manny Pacquiao vs. Shane Mosley Pacquiao wins by UD (119–108, 120–108, 120–107) Showtime 1,340,000[90]
Sep 17, 2011 Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs Victor Ortiz Mayweather Jr. wins by KO in round 4 HBO 1,250,000[92]
Nov 13, 2011 Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Márquez III Pacquiao wins by MD (115–113, 114–114, 116–112) HBO 1,400,000[94]
Dec 3, 2011 Miguel Cotto vs. Antonio Margarito II Cotto wins by RTD in round 9 HBO 600,000[204]
May 5, 2012 Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Miguel Cotto Mayweather Jr. wins by UD (117–111, 117–111, 118–110) HBO 1,500,000[96]
Jun 9, 2012 Manny Pacquiao vs. Timothy Bradley Bradley wins by SD (115–113, 115–113, 115–113) HBO 890,000[205]
Sep 15, 2012 Sergio Martínez vs. Julio César Chávez Jr. Martínez wins by UD (118–109, 118–109, 117–110) HBO 475,000[206]
Dec 8, 2012 Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Márquez IV Márquez wins by KO in round 6 HBO 1,150,000[97]
May 4, 2013 Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Robert Guerrero Mayweather Jr. wins by UD (117–111, 117–111, 117–111) Showtime 1,000,000[207]
Sep 14, 2013 Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Canelo Álvarez Mayweather Jr. wins by MD (117–111, 116–112, 114–114) Showtime 2,200,000[99]
Oct 12, 2013 Timothy Bradley vs. Juan Manuel Márquez Bradley wins by SD (115–113, 116–112, 113–115) HBO 375,000[208]
Nov 24, 2013 Manny Pacquiao vs. Brandon Ríos Pacquiao wins by UD (119–109, 120–108, 118–110) HBO 475,000[209]
Mar 8, 2014 Canelo Álvarez vs. Alfredo Angulo Álvarez wins by TKO in Round 10 Showtime 350,000[210]
Apr 12, 2014 Manny Pacquiao vs. Timothy Bradley II Pacquiao wins by UD (116–112, 116–112, 118–110) HBO 800,000[211]
May 3, 2014 Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Marcos Maidana Mayweather Jr. wins by MD (114–114, 117–111, 116–112) Showtime 900,000[212]
Jun 7, 2014 Miguel Cotto vs. Sergio Martínez Cotto wins by RTD in round 10 HBO 315,000[213]
Jul 12, 2014 Canelo Álvarez vs. Erislandy Lara Álvarez wins by SD (115–113, 117–111, 113–115) Showtime 300,000[214]
Sep 13, 2014 Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Marcos Maidana II Mayweather Jr. wins by UD (116–111, 116–111, 115–112) Showtime 925,000[212]
Nov 23, 2014 Manny Pacquiao vs. Chris Algieri Pacquiao wins by UD (119–103, 119–103, 120–102) HBO 400,000[215]
May 2, 2015 Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao Mayweather Jr. wins by UD (116–112, 116–112, 118–110) HBO/Showtime 4,600,000[100]
Sep 12, 2015 Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Andre Berto Mayweather Jr. wins by UD (120–108, 118–110, 117–111) Showtime 400,000[216]
Oct 17, 2015 Gennady Golovkin vs. David Lemieux Golovkin wins by TKO in round 8 HBO 150,000[217]
Nov 21, 2015 Miguel Cotto vs. Canelo Álvarez Álvarez wins by UD (117–111, 119–109, 118–110) HBO 900,000[218]
Apr 9, 2016 Manny Pacquiao vs. Timothy Bradley III Pacquiao wins by UD (116–110, 116–110, 116–110) HBO 400,000[219]
May 7, 2016 Canelo Álvarez vs. Amir Khan Álvarez wins by KO in round 6 HBO 600,000[220]
July 23, 2016 Terence Crawford vs. Viktor Postol Crawford wins by UD (118–107, 118–107, 117–108) HBO 55,000[221]
Sep 17, 2016 Canelo Álvarez vs. Liam Smith Álvarez wins by TKO in round 9 HBO 300,000[222]
Nov 5, 2016 Manny Pacquiao vs. Jessie Vargas Pacquiao wins by UD (118–109, 118–109, 114–113) Top Rank 300,000[223]
Nov 19, 2016 Sergey Kovalev vs. Andre Ward Ward wins by UD (114–113, 114–113, 114–113) HBO 165,000[224]
Mar 18, 2017 Gennady Golovkin vs. Daniel Jacobs Golovkin wins by UD (115–112, 115–112, 114–113) HBO 170,000[225]
May 6, 2017 Canelo Álvarez vs. Julio César Chávez Jr. Álvarez wins by UD (120–108, 120–108, 120–108) HBO 1,000,000[226]
Jun 17, 2017 Andre Ward vs. Sergey Kovalev II Ward wins by TKO in round 8 HBO 130,000[227]
Aug 26, 2017 Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor Mayweather Jr. wins by TKO in round 10 Showtime 4,300,000[228]
Sep 16, 2017 Canelo Álvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin Split draw (118–110, 115–113, 114–114) HBO 1,300,000[107]
Sep 15, 2018 Canelo Álvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin II Álvarez wins by MD (115–113, 114–114, 115–113) HBO 1,100,000[114]
Dec 1, 2018 Deontay Wilder vs. Tyson Fury Split draw (115–111, 113–113, 112–114) Showtime 325,000[229]
Jan 19, 2019 Manny Pacquiao vs. Adrien Broner Pacquiao wins by UD (117–111, 116–112, 116–112) Showtime 400,000[230]
Mar 16, 2019 Errol Spence Jr. vs. Mikey Garcia Spence Jr. wins by UD (120–107, 120–108, 120–108) Fox 375,000[231]
Apr 20, 2019 Terence Crawford vs. Amir Khan Crawford wins by TKO in round 6 ESPN 150,000[232]
Jul 20, 2019 Manny Pacquiao vs. Keith Thurman Pacquiao wins by SD (115–112, 115–112, 113–114) Fox 500,000[233]
Sep 28, 2019 Errol Spence Jr. vs. Shawn Porter Spence wins by SD (116–111, 116–111, 112–115) Fox 350,000[234]
Nov 9, 2019 KSI vs. Logan Paul II KSI wins by SD (56–55, 57–54, 55–56) DAZN 2,000,000[118]
Nov 23, 2019 Deontay Wilder vs. Luis Ortiz II Wilder wins by KO in round 7 Fox 275,000[235]
Feb 22, 2020 Deontay Wilder vs. Tyson Fury II Fury wins by TKO in round 7 ESPN/Fox 800,000 [236]
Sep 26, 2020 Jermall Charlo vs. Sergiy Derevyanchenko Charlo wins by UD (116–112, 118–110, 117–111) Showtime 120,000[237]
Oct 31, 2020 Gervonta Davis vs. Leo Santa Cruz Davis wins by KO in round 6 Showtime 225,000[238]
Nov 28, 2020 Mike Tyson vs. Roy Jones Jr. Split draw (76–76, 79–73, 76–80) Triller 1,600,000[122]
Dec 5, 2020 Errol Spence Jr. vs. Danny García Spence wins by UD (117–111, 116–112, 116–112) Fox 250,000[239]
May 1, 2021 Chris Arreola vs. Andy Ruiz Jr. Ruiz wins by UD (118–109, 118–109, 117–110) Fox 150,000[240]
Jun 6, 2021 Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Logan Paul Exhibition fight, no winner declared Showtime 1,000,000[241][242]
Jun 26, 2021 Mario Barrios vs. Gervonta Davis Davis wins by TKO in round 11 Showtime 200,000[243]
Aug 21, 2021 Manny Pacquiao vs. Yordenis Ugás Ugas wins by UD (116–112, 116–112, 115–113) Fox 250,000[244]
Aug 29, 2021 Jake Paul vs. Tyron Woodley Paul wins by SD (78–74, 77–75, 75–77) Showtime 500,000[245][246]
Oct 9, 2021 Tyson Fury vs. Deontay Wilder III Fury wins by KO in round 11 ESPN/Fox 600,000[247]
Nov 6, 2021 Canelo Álvarez vs. Caleb Plant Álvarez wins by TKO in round 11 Showtime 800,000[248]
Nov 20, 2021 Terence Crawford vs. Shawn Porter Crawford wins by TKO in round 10 ESPN 135,000[249][250]
Dec 5, 2021 Gervonta Davis vs. Isaac Cruz Davis wins by UD (115–113, 115–113, 116–112) Showtime 100,000[251][252][253]
May 7, 2022 Canelo Álvarez vs. Dmitry Bivol Bivol wins by UD (115–113, 115–113, 115–113) DAZN 520,000[254]
May 28, 2022 Gervonta Davis vs. Rolando Romero Davis wins by TKO in round 6 Showtime 275,000[255]
Sep 17, 2022 Canelo Álvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin III Álvarez wins by UD (116–112, 115–113, 115–113) DAZN 850,000[256]
Oct 15, 2022 Deontay Wilder vs. Robert Helenius Wilder wins by KO in round 1 Fox 75,000[257]
Apr 22, 2023 Gervonta Davis vs. Ryan Garcia Davis wins by TKO in round 7 Showtime 1,200,000[258]
May 20, 2023 Devin Haney vs. Vasiliy Lomachenko Haney wins by UD (115–113, 116–112, 115–113) ESPN 150,000[259]
Jul 29, 2023 Errol Spence Jr. vs. Terence Crawford Crawford wins by TKO in round 9 Showtime 675,000[260]

United Kingdom Edit

Select boxing pay-per-view figures (mainly from Sky Box Office) since 1966. Many of these figures are based on BARB weekly viewing data figures.[261]

   — Fights which held the UK PPV sales record
Date Fight Network Buys Source(s)
21 May 1966 Muhammad Ali vs. Henry Cooper II Pay TV 40,000 [262]
16 March 1996 Frank Bruno vs. Mike Tyson II Sky Box Office 660,000 [70]
9 November 1996 Naseem Hamed vs. Remigio Molina Sky Box Office 420,000 [70][263]
8 February 1997 Naseem Hamed vs. Tom Johnson Sky Box Office 720,000 [70][264]
3 May 1997 Naseem Hamed vs. Billy Hardy Sky Box Office 348,000 [70][265]
28 June 1997 Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson II Sky Box Office 550,000 [72]
13 March 1999 Evander Holyfield vs. Lennox Lewis Sky Box Office 400,000 [266]
29 January 2000 Mike Tyson vs. Julius Francis Sky Box Office 500,000 [72]
19 August 2000 Naseem Hamed vs. Augie Sanchez Sky Box Office 300,000 [267]
8 June 2002 Lennox Lewis vs. Mike Tyson Sky Box Office 750,000 [76]
8 December 2007 Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Ricky Hatton Sky Box Office 1,150,000 [268]
2 May 2009 Manny Pacquiao vs. Ricky Hatton Sky Box Office 900,000 [82]
18 July 2009 Amir Khan vs. Andreas Kotelnik Sky Box Office 100,000 [269]
7 November 2009 Nikolai Valuev vs. David Haye Sky Box Office 469,000 [270]
3 April 2010 David Haye vs. John Ruiz Sky Box Office 253,000 [271][104]
24 April 2010 Carl Froch vs. Mikkel Kessler Primetime 50,000 [272]
18 September 2010 Kell Brook vs. Michael Jennings Sky Box Office 15,000 [273]
13 November 2010 David Haye vs. Audley Harrison Sky Box Office 304,000 [270][104]
11 December 2010 Amir Khan vs. Marcos Maidana Sky Box Office 164,000 [274]
16 April 2011 Amir Khan vs. Paul McCloskey Primetime 200,000 [275][272]
21 May 2011 George Groves vs. James DeGale Sky Box Office 43,000 [276]
2 July 2011 Wladimir Klitschko vs. David Haye Sky Box Office 1,197,000 [277][278][279]
25 May 2013 Carl Froch vs. Mikkel Kessler II Sky Box Office 32,000 [280]
23 November 2013 Carl Froch vs. George Groves Sky Box Office 47,000 [281]
31 May 2014 Carl Froch vs. George Groves II Sky Box Office 355,000 [282]
22 November 2014 Tony Bellew vs. Nathan Cleverly II Sky Box Office 131,000 [283][284]
2 May 2015 Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao Sky Box Office 942,000 [101][285]
30 May 2015 Kell Brook vs. Frankie Gavin Sky Box Office 139,000 [286]
28 November 2015 Wladimir Klitschko vs. Tyson Fury Sky Box Office 655,000 [287][104]
12 December 2015 Anthony Joshua vs. Dillian Whyte Sky Box Office 699,000 [288][289]
27 February 2016 Carl Frampton vs. Scott Quigg Sky Box Office 220,000 [290][291]
9 April 2016 Anthony Joshua vs. Charles Martin Sky Box Office 1,368,000 [288][292]
25 June 2016 Anthony Joshua vs. Dominic Breazeale Sky Box Office 617,000 [293]
10 September 2016 Gennady Golovkin vs. Kell Brook Sky Box Office 752,000 [294][295]
10 December 2016 Anthony Joshua vs. Éric Molina Sky Box Office 764,000 [288][296]
4 February 2017 Chris Eubank Jr. vs. Renold Quinlan ITV Box Office 86,000 [297]
4 March 2017 David Haye vs. Tony Bellew Sky Box Office 1,515,000 [298][104]
29 April 2017 Anthony Joshua vs. Wladimir Klitschko Sky Box Office 1,631,000 [105][299][300][104]
27 May 2017 Kell Brook vs. Errol Spence Jr. Sky Box Office 405,000 [301]
26 August 2017 Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor Sky Box Office 1,007,000 [302]
28 October 2017 Anthony Joshua vs. Carlos Takam Sky Box Office 1,009,000 [303]
31 March 2018 Anthony Joshua vs. Joseph Parker Sky Box Office 1,832,000 [108][104]
5 May 2018 David Haye vs. Tony Bellew II Sky Box Office 1,048,000 [304][104]
28 July 2018 Dillian Whyte vs. Joseph Parker Sky Box Office 571,000 [305][306]
22 September 2018 Anthony Joshua vs. Alexander Povetkin Sky Box Office 1,247,000 [115][104]
10 November 2018 Oleksandr Usyk vs. Tony Bellew Sky Box Office 819,000 [307]
1 December 2018 Deontay Wilder vs. Tyson Fury BT Sport Box Office 450,000 [308]
22 December 2018 Dillian Whyte vs. Dereck Chisora II Sky Box Office 532,000 [309]
1 June 2019 Anthony Joshua vs. Andy Ruiz Jr. Sky Box Office 652,000 [310]
20 July 2019 Dillian Whyte vs. Oscar Rivas Sky Box Office 368,000 [311]
31 August 2019 Vasyl Lomachenko vs. Luke Campbell Sky Box Office 205,000 [312]
26 October 2019 Josh Taylor vs. Regis Prograis Sky Box Office 176,000 [313]
9 November 2019 KSI vs. Logan Paul II Sky Box Office 216,000 [314]
7 December 2019 Andy Ruiz Jr. vs. Anthony Joshua II Sky Box Office 1,575,000 [119][104]
22 August 2020 Dillian Whyte vs. Alexander Povetkin Sky Box Office 337,000 [315]
31 October 2020 Oleksandr Usyk vs. Derek Chisora Sky Box Office 1,059,000 [316][317][318]
12 December 2020 Anthony Joshua vs. Kubrat Pulev Sky Box Office 948,000 [319]
27 March 2021 Alexander Povetkin vs. Dillian Whyte II Sky Box Office 197,000 [320][321]
1 May 2021 Derek Chisora vs. Joseph Parker Sky Box Office 145,000 [322]
25 September 2021 Anthony Joshua vs. Oleksandr Usyk Sky Box Office 1,232,000 [323][324][325]
9 October 2021 Tyson Fury vs. Deontay Wilder III BT Sport Box Office 300,000 [326]
19 February 2022 Amir Khan vs Kell Brook Sky Box Office 600,000 [327]
20 August 2022 Oleksandr Usyk vs Anthony Joshua II Sky Box Office 1,249,000 [327][328]
3 December 2022 Tyson Fury vs Derek Chisora III BT Sport Box Office 500,000 [329]

Mixed martial arts (MMA) Edit

The first pay-per-view mixed martial arts bout was Muhammad Ali vs. Antonio Inoki, which took place in Japan on June 26, 1976. It sold at least 2 million buys on closed-circuit theatre TV.[330] At a ticket price of $10,[331] the fight grossed at least $20 million (inflation-adjusted $100 million) or more from closed-circuit theatre TV revenue in the United States.

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Edit

The highest buy rates for the UFC as of January 2021 are as follows.[332]

Note: The UFC does not release official PPV statistics, and the following PPV numbers are as reported by industry insiders. As of April 2019, all PPV's are iPPV's, with distribution on the internet exclusively via ESPN+.

   — Fights which held the UFC PPV sales record
Date Event Headline Buy rate Revenue (est.)
Oct 6, 2018 UFC 229 Khabib vs. McGregor 2,400,000[333] $180 million[334][335]
Jul 10, 2021 UFC 264 Poirier vs. McGregor 3 1,800,000
Aug 20, 2016 UFC 202 Diaz vs. McGregor 2 1,650,000[332] $90 million[336][337]
Jan 24, 2021 UFC 257 Poirier vs. McGregor 2 1,600,000[338]
Jul 11, 2009 UFC 100 Lesnar vs. Mir 1,600,000[332] $82 million
Jan 18, 2020 UFC 246 Cowboy vs. McGregor 1,353,429[339]
Mar 5, 2016 UFC 196 McGregor vs. Diaz 1,317,000[333] $80 million[340][337]
Jul 11, 2020 UFC 251 Usman vs. Masvidal 1,300,000[341] $78 million[342]
Nov 12, 2016 UFC 205 Alvarez vs. McGregor 1,300,000[333] $83 million[343][335]
Jul 9, 2016 UFC 200 Tate vs. Nunes 1,200,000[332] $71 million[344][345]
Dec 12, 2015 UFC 194 Aldo vs. McGregor 1,200,000[333] $80 million[346][337]
Jul 3, 2010 UFC 116 Lesnar vs. Carwin 1,160,000[332] $55 million
Nov 15, 2015 UFC 193 Rousey vs. Holm 1,100,000 $60 million
Dec 30, 2016 UFC 207 Nunes vs. Rousey 1,100,000[332] $60 million[347][348]
Dec 30, 2006 UFC 66 Liddell vs. Ortiz 2 1,050,000[332] $53 million
May 29, 2010 UFC 114 Rampage vs. Evans 1,050,000[332] $51 million[349][350]
Oct 23, 2010 UFC 121 Lesnar vs. Velasquez 1,050,000[332] $45 million
Dec 28, 2013 UFC 168 Weidman vs. Silva II 1,025,000[332] $57 million[351][352]
Nov 15, 2008 UFC 91 Couture vs. Lesnar 1,010,000[332] $47 million
Dec 27, 2008 UFC 92 Evans vs. Griffin 1,000,000[332] $48 million[353][337]
Mar 16, 2013 UFC 158 St-Pierre vs. Diaz 950,000[332]
Jul 7, 2012 UFC 148 Silva vs. Sonnen II 925,000
Jan 31, 2009 UFC 94 St-Pierre vs. Penn 2 920,000
Aug 1, 2015 UFC 190 Rousey vs. Correia 900,000
Nov 4, 2017 UFC 217 Bisping vs. St-Pierre 875,000
Jul 29, 2017 UFC 214 Cormier vs. Jones 2 860,000
Aug 8, 2009 UFC 101 Declaration 850,000
Jul 11, 2015 UFC 189 Mendes vs. McGregor 825,000[354]
Mar 6, 2021 UFC 259 Błachowicz vs. Adesanya 800,000[355]
Apr 30, 2011 UFC 129 St-Pierre vs. Shields 800,000
Jan 3, 2015 UFC 182 Jones vs. Cormier 800,000
Dec 11, 2010 UFC 124 St-Pierre vs. Koscheck 2 785,000
Mar 27, 2010 UFC 111 St-Pierre vs. Hardy 770,000
Dec 30, 2011 UFC 141 Lesnar vs. Overeem 750,000
Feb 5, 2011 UFC 126 Silva vs. Belfort 725,000
Nov 6, 2021 UFC 268 Usman vs. Covington 2 700,000
Dec 29, 2007 UFC 79 Nemesis 700,000
Apr 21, 2012 UFC 145 Jones vs. Evans 700,000
Nov 17, 2012 UFC 154 St. Pierre vs. Condit 700,000
Dec 29, 2018 UFC 232 Jones vs. Gustafsson 2 700,000
Apr 24, 2021 UFC 261 Usman vs. Masvidal 2 700,000[356]
May 9, 2020 UFC 249 Ferguson vs. Gaethje 700,000[357]
Sep 26, 2020 UFC 253 Adesanya vs. Costa 700,000[358]
Oct 24, 2020 UFC 254 Khabib vs. Gaethje 675,000[359]
May 26, 2007 UFC 71 Liddell vs. Jackson 675,000

Professional wrestling (United States) Edit

Further information: List of WWE pay-per-view and WWE Network events and List of NWA/WCW closed-circuit events and pay-per-view events

WrestleMania I in March 1985 sold over 1 million buys on closed-circuit theatre TV in the United States, making it the largest pay-per-view showing of a wrestling event in the US at the time.[360]

PPV home television Edit

The highest buy rates for professional wrestling events on pay-per-view home television as of June 2015 are as follows.[361]

   — Fights which held the professional wrestling PPV sales record
No. Date Event Buy rate
1 Apr 1, 2012 WrestleMania XXVIII 1,300,000[362]
2 Apr 1, 2007 WrestleMania 23 1,200,000
3 Apr 3, 2005 WrestleMania 21 1,085,000
4 Apr 3, 2011 WrestleMania XXVII 1,059,000
5 Mar 30, 2008 WrestleMania XXIV 1,058,000
6 Apr 7, 2013 WrestleMania 29 1,048,000
7 Apr 1, 2001 WrestleMania X-Seven 1,040,000
8 Mar 14, 2004 WrestleMania XX 1,007,000
9 Apr 2, 2006 WrestleMania 22 975,000
10 Apr 5, 2009 WrestleMania XXV 960,000
11 Mar 28, 2010 WrestleMania XXVI 885,000
12 Mar 17, 2002 WrestleMania X8 880,000
13 Apr 2, 2000 WrestleMania 2000 824,000
14 Mar 28, 1999 WrestleMania XV 800,000
15 Jul 22, 2001 WWF Invasion 770,000
16 Apr 2, 1989 WrestleMania V 767,000

List of sportsmen with highest pay-per-view sales Edit

This tables lists the sportsmen who have had the highest pay-per-view sales, with at least 10 million buys. It includes sportsmen who have participated in boxing, mixed martial arts, and professional wrestling.

Sportsman Total sales (est.) Closed-circuit theatre TV PPV home television Years Sport(s)
Muhammad Ali 162,944,000[citation needed] 162,154,000[b][citation needed] 790,000[b][citation needed] 1963–1985 Professional boxing
Mixed martial arts
Professional wrestling
Joe Frazier 100,500,000[citation needed] 100,000,000[6][citation needed] 500,000[14] 1965–1981 Professional boxing
Triple H 60,000,000[363][364] — 60,000,000[363][364] 1992-2022 Professional wrestling
The Undertaker 56,675,000[363][365] — 56,675,000[363][365] 1990–2020 Professional wrestling
George Foreman 52,000,000 50,000,000[5] 2,000,000[62][167] 1974–1993 Professional boxing
Floyd Mayweather Jr. 29,090,000 223,000[78][102] 28,867,000[366][c] 2005–2017
Professional boxing
Manny Pacquiao 22,214,000[citation needed] 173,000[102] 22,041,000[d][citation needed] 2005–2019 Professional boxing
Mike Tyson 20,700,000[citation needed] 920,000[e] 19,780,000[e][citation needed] 1988–2020 Professional boxing
Professional wrestling
Conor McGregor 18,400,000[citation needed] — 18,400,000[f] 2015–2021 Mixed martial arts
Professional boxing
John Cena 15,389,000[citation needed] — 15,389,000[g] 2002–2021 Professional wrestling
The Rock 14,859,000[citation needed] — 14,859,000[h] 1998–2013
Oscar De La Hoya 14,140,000[citation needed] 50,000[78] 14,090,000[i] 1995–2008 Professional boxing
Anthony Joshua 13,441,000[citation needed] — 13,441,000[j] 2015–2021 Professional boxing
Brock Lesnar 12,771,000[citation needed] — 12,771,000[k] 2002–2020 Professional wrestling
Mixed martial arts
Evander Holyfield 12,720,000[citation needed] 120,000[73] 12,600,000[367] 1984–2003 Professional boxing
Shawn Michaels 10,160,000[citation needed] — 10,160,000[g] 1988–2018 Professional wrestling

See also Edit

Notes Edit

  1. ^ See Manny Pacquiao vs. Ricky Hatton § Pay-per-view.
  2. ^ a b See Boxing career of Muhammad Ali § Pay-per-view bouts.
  3. ^ See Floyd Mayweather Jr. § Pay-per-view bouts.
  4. ^ See Boxing career of Manny Pacquiao § Pay-per-view bouts.
  5. ^ a b See Mike Tyson § Pay-per-view bouts.
  6. ^ See Conor McGregor § Pay-per-view bouts.
  7. ^ a b See List of WWE pay-per-view events
  8. ^ See Dwayne Johnson
  9. ^ See Oscar De La Hoya § Pay-per-view bouts.
  10. ^ See Anthony Joshua § Pay-per-view bouts.
  11. ^ See Brock Lesnar § Pay-per-view bouts.

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For writer payment rates based on views see Content farm The template below Overly detailed is being considered for merging See templates for discussion to help reach a consensus This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia s inclusion policy September 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message Pay per view PPV is a type of pay television or webcast service that enables a viewer to pay to watch individual events via private telecast Events can be purchased through a multichannel television platform using their electronic program guide an automated telephone system or through a live customer service representative There has been an increasing number of pay per views distributed via streaming video online either alongside or in lieu of carriage through television providers In 2012 the popular video sharing platform YouTube began to allow partners to host live PPV events on the platform 1 Events distributed through PPV typically include boxing mixed martial arts professional wrestling and concerts In the past PPV was often used to distribute telecasts of feature films as well as adult content such as pornographic films but the growth of digital cable and streaming media caused these uses to be subsumed by video on demand systems which allow viewers to purchase and view pre recorded content at any time instead leaving PPV to focus primarily on live event programs and combat sports Contents 1 History 1 1 United States 1 1 1 Professional boxing during 1960s 1970s 1 1 2 1980s 2000s 1 1 3 HBO PPV professional boxing 1 1 4 Ultimate Fighting Championship 1 1 5 Professional wrestling 1 1 6 Concerts 1 2 United Kingdom and Ireland 1 3 Canada 1 4 Mainland Europe 1 5 South America 1 6 Australia and the Pacific Islands 1 7 Asia 2 List of largest pay per view markets 3 List of pay per view bouts 3 1 Boxing 3 1 1 Worldwide 3 1 2 United States closed circuit theatre TV 3 1 3 United States PPV home television 3 1 4 United Kingdom 3 2 Mixed martial arts MMA 3 2 1 Ultimate Fighting Championship UFC 3 3 Professional wrestling United States 3 3 1 PPV home television 4 List of sportsmen with highest pay per view sales 5 See also 6 Notes 7 References 8 External linksHistory EditThe 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 2 3 The first fight with a closed circuit telecast was Joe Louis vs Jersey Joe Walcott in 1948 4 Closed circuit telecasts peaked in popularity with Muhammad Ali in the 1960s and 1970s 2 3 with The Rumble in the Jungle fight drawing 50 million buys worldwide in 1974 5 and the Thrilla in Manila drawing 100 million buys worldwide in 1975 6 Closed circuit television was gradually replaced by pay per view home television in the 1980s and 1990s 3 United States Edit The Zenith Phonevision system became the first home pay per view system to be tested in the United States Developed in 1951 it used telephone lines to take and receive orders as well as to descramble a television broadcast signal The field tests conducted for Phonevision lasted for 90 days and were tested in Chicago Illinois The system used IBM punch cards to descramble a signal broadcast during the broadcast station s off time Both systems showed promise but the Federal Communications Commission denied them the permits to operate 7 One of the earliest pay per view systems on cable television the Optical Systems developed Channel 100 first began service in 1972 in San Diego California through Mission Cable 8 which was later acquired by Cox Communications and TheaterVisioN which operated out of Sarasota Florida These early systems quickly went out of business as the cable industry adopted satellite technology and as flat rate pay television services such as Home Box Office HBO became popular While most pay per view services were delivered via cable there were a few over the air pay TV stations that offered pay per view broadcasts in addition to regularly scheduled broadcasts of movies and other entertainment These stations which operated for a few years in Chicago Los Angeles and some other cities broadcast scrambled signals that required descrambler devices to convert the signal into standard broadcast format These services were marketed as ON TV Professional boxing during 1960s 1970s Edit The first home pay per view cable television broadcast was the Floyd Patterson vs Ingemar Johansson rematch in 1960 when 25 000 TelePrompTer subscribers mailed 2 to watch Patterson regain the heavyweight title 9 The third Patterson Johansson match in 1961 was later viewed by 100 000 paid cable subscribers 10 Muhammad Ali had several fights on early pay per view home television including Cassius Clay vs Doug Jones in 1963 11 and Muhammad Ali vs Sonny Liston 12 which drew 250 000 buys on cable television in 1964 13 Professional boxing was largely introduced to pay per view cable television with the Thrilla in Manila fight between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier in September 1975 The fight sold 500 000 pay per view buys on HBO 14 There was also another major title fight aired on pay per view in 1980 when Roberto Duran defeated Sugar Ray Leonard Cable companies offered the match for 10 and about 155 000 customers paid to watch the fight 15 16 1980s 2000s Edit A major pay per view event citation needed occurred on September 16 1981 when Sugar Ray Leonard fought Thomas Hitman Hearns for the World Welterweight Championship Viacom Cablevision in Nashville Tennessee the first system to offer the event saw over 50 percent of its subscriber base purchase the fight citation needed Leonard visited Nashville to promote the fight and the event proved such a success that Viacom themed its annual report for that year around it citation needed Viacom marketing director Pat Thompson put together the fight and subsequently put together additional PPV fights wrestling matches and even a televised Broadway play citation needed After leaving Viacom Thompson became head of Sports View and produced the first pay per view football game on October 16 1983 a college football game between the University of Tennessee and the University of Alabama from Birmingham Alabama citation needed Sports View played a role in building pay per view networks citation needed and became the early pioneer in developing TigerVision for Louisiana State University TideVision for Alabama and UT Vol Seat for Tennessee Sports View also produced the Ohio State Michigan football game for pay per view in November 1983 In 1985 the first pay per view cable channels in the United States Viewer s Choice now In Demand Cable Video Store First Choice and Request TV began operation within days of each other citation needed Viewer s Choice serviced both home satellite dish and cable customers while Request TV though broadcasting to cable viewers would not become available to satellite subscribers until the 1990s citation needed First Choice PPV was available on Rogers Cablesystems in the United States and Canada After Paragon Cable acquired the Rogers Cablesystems franchise in San Antonio Texas First Choice continued to be carried until Time Warner Cable bought Paragon in 1996 In the United States pay per view broadcasters transmit without advertisements similar to conventional flat rate pay television services The term pay per view did not come into general use until the late 1980s citation needed when companies such as Viewer s Choice HBO and Showtime started using the system to show movies and some of their productions Viewer s Choice carried movies concerts and other events with live sporting events such as WrestleMania being the most predominant programming Prices ranged from 3 99 to 49 99 while HBO and Showtime with their event production legs TVKO and SET Pay Per View would offer championship boxing matches ranging from 14 99 to 54 99 citation needed ESPN later began to broadcast college football and basketball games on pay per view through its services ESPN GamePlan and ESPN Full Court which were eventually sold as full time out of market sports packages citation needed The boxing undercard Latin Fury shown on June 28 2003 became ESPN s first boxing card on pay per view and also the first pay per view boxing card held in Puerto Rico citation needed Pay per view has provided a revenue stream for professional wrestling circuits such as WWE Impact Wrestling All Elite Wrestling AEW World Championship Wrestling WCW Ring of Honor ROH and Lucha Libre AAA World Wide AAA WWE chairman and chief executive officer Vince McMahon is considered by many as one of the icons of pay per view promotion McMahon owns the domain name payperview com which redirects to the WWE Network website 17 With the rise of direct broadcast satellite services in the 1990s this meant more services exclusively for DBS users appeared DirecTV had Direct Ticket which in addition to movies and special events also included PPV sports packages most notably NFL Sunday Ticket while Dish Network had Dish On Demand PrimeStar on the other hand utilized pre existing services like Viewer s Choice and Request TV as it was owned by a number of major cable providers though promotional material bannered all PPV services under the name of PrimeCinema HBO PPV professional boxing Edit In 2006 HBO generated 3 7 million pay per view buys with 177 million in gross sales The only year with more buys previously 1999 had a total of 4 million The former record fell in 2007 when HBO sold 4 8 million PPV buys with 255 million in sales 18 BY 2014 HBO had generated 59 3 million buys and 3 1 billion in revenue since its 1991 debut with Evander Holyfield George Foreman 19 1999 differed radically from 2006 1999 saw four major fight cards De La Hoya Trinidad 1 4 million buys Holyfield Lewis I 1 2 million Holyfield Lewis II 850 000 and De La Hoya Quartey 570 000 By contrast only one pay per view mega fight took place in 2006 De La Hoya Mayorga 925 000 buys Rahman Maskaev bombed with under 50 000 The other eight PPV cards that year all fell in the 325 000 450 000 range Pay per view fights in that range almost always generate more money for the promoter and fighters than HBO wants to pay for an HBO World Championship Boxing license fee citation needed In May 2007 the junior middleweight boxing match between Oscar De La Hoya vs Floyd Mayweather Jr on HBO PPV became the biggest selling non heavyweight title fight with a little more than 2 5 million buyers 20 The fight itself generated roughly 139 million in domestic PPV revenue making it the most lucrative prizefight of that era The record stood until 2015 before it was broken by Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Manny Pacquiao in a fight dubbed as the Fight of the Century on May 2 2015 which generated 4 6 million ppv buys and a revenue of over 400 million 21 The leading PPV attraction Floyd Mayweather Jr has generated approximately 24 million buys and 1 6 billion in revenue Manny Pacquiao ranked second has generated approximately 20 1 million buys and 1 2 billion in revenue 22 23 Oscar De La Hoya has sold approximately 14 million units in total giving 700 million in domestic television receipts and stands third In fourth place in buys Evander Holyfield has achieved 12 6 million units 550 million and at fifth Mike Tyson has reached 12 4 million units 545 million 24 Ross Greenburg then president of HBO Sports called the expansion of pay per view the biggest economic issue in boxing stating I can t tell you that pay per view helps the sport because it doesn t It hurts the sport because it narrows our audience but it s a fact of life Every time we try to make an HBO World Championship Boxing fight we re up against mythical pay per view numbers HBO doesn t make a lot of money from pay per view There s usually a cap on what we can make But the promoters and fighters insist on pay per view because that s where their greatest profits lie 25 It s a big problem Greenburg continues It s getting harder and harder to put fighters like Manny Pacquiao on HBO World Championship Boxing If Floyd Mayweather beats Oscar he might never fight on HBO World Championship Boxing again But if HBO stopped doing pay per view the promoters would simply do it on their own like Bob Arum did with Cotto Malignaggi in June 2006 or find someone else who will do it for them 25 Former HBO Sports President Seth Abraham concurs saying I think if Lou DiBella and I were still at HBO we d be in the same pickle as far as the exodus of fights to pay per view is concerned 26 Ultimate Fighting Championship Edit The Ultimate Fighting Championship UFC a mixed martial arts promotion was a relative newcomer to the PPV market However the promotion experienced a surge in popularity in the mid 2000s credited initially to the popularity of an associated reality show on the cable channel Spike The Ultimate Fighter UFC 52 the first UFC event since its premiere broke the promotion s record with almost 300 000 buys in comparison to 250 000 for UFC 5 27 28 PPV numbers escalated further in 2006 with its events taking in a gross revenue of 222 million 29 In October 2016 it was reported that 42 of the UFC s content revenue in 2015 came from pay per view buys followed by U S and international media rights In 2018 UFC 229 would pull an all time record for the promotion with estimates indicating that the event attracted nearly 2 4 million buys breaking the 1 65 million buy record set by UFC 202 30 In March 2019 as part of a larger contract with ESPN for media rights in the United States it was announced that future UFC pay per views will only be sold to subscribers of the network s streaming service ESPN 31 32 Professional wrestling Edit Professional wrestling has a long history of running pay per view events WWE then WWF launched its first pay per view event in 1985 with its annual flagship event WrestleMania and has run numerous others throughout the years Although it still offers its events via traditional PPV outlets they have also been included at no additional charge as part of a larger subscription based streaming service known as WWE Network which as of 2021 is now a part of the NBCUniversal streaming service Peacock in the United States The service also includes original programming such as documentary style series and other wrestling programs and an on demand archive of events and television episodes from WWE s library Following WrestleMania 34 the service had 2 12 million subscribers 33 34 Since the beginning of 2022 WWE has ceased using the term pay per view and replaced it with Premium Live Events in promotional materials to emphasize their carriage via subscription platforms 35 Other major organizations such as World Championship Wrestling Extreme Championship Wrestling Impact Wrestling Ring of Honor and All Elite Wrestling have also run pay per view events Concerts Edit In 1999 Woodstock 1999 was broadcast via PPV from Rome New York for people who wanted to attend but could not The cameras were a cause of the downfall of the event In 2015 PPV broadcasts of the Fare Thee Well Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead tour set a record for buys for a music event with over 400 000 36 United Kingdom and Ireland Edit Viewers in the United Kingdom and Ireland can access pay per view via satellite cable and over the internet television services mainly for films boxing mixed martial arts and American professional wrestling via services such as Sky Box Office and BT Sport Box Office The last couple of years has seen the number of pay per view boxing events significantly increase and currently all of the UK s top fights are only available via pay per view Broadcasters most notably PremPlus have abandoned their aspirations to introduce PPV into other sports market due to poor interest from the public In October 2020 during the 2020 21 season the Premier League experimented with PPV telecasts of football matches not selected for broadcasts by its main rightsholders which are usually blacked out 3 00 p m kickoffs amid the COVID 19 pandemic in the United Kingdom which prevents any attendance of the matches However the matches proved unpopular with team supporters groups urging fans to make donations to charity instead and the Premier League announcing that it would allocate the extra matches among its existing rightsholders BT and Sky as well as Amazon Prime Video and BBC Sport with some on free to air TV through at least the end of 2020 as it had done during the conclusion of the previous season 37 38 39 40 Canada Edit In Canada most specialty television providers provide pay per view programming through one or more services In all cases prices typically range from around C 4 99 for movies up to 50 or more for special events Initially there were three major PPV providers in Canada Viewers Choice operated in Eastern Canada as a joint venture of Astral Media Rogers Communications and TSN Western International Communications operated a separate service in the west initially known as Home Theatre it was later rebranded as Viewers Choice under license Viewers Choice Canada was a partner in a French language PPV service known as Canal Indigo which is now entirely owned by Videotron Bell Canada launched a PPV service for its ExpressVu television provider known as Vu in 1999 Home Theatre was later acquired by Shaw Communications after gaining permission to operate nationally it re branded as a white label PPV known internally as Shaw PPV in December 2007 In 2014 due to Bell Media s majority ownership of Viewers Choice because of its acquisition of Astral and because both Bell and Rogers now ran their own in house PPV operations Vu and Sportsnet PPV Viewers Choice was shut down 41 Mainland Europe Edit In Romania cable communications operator UPC Romania has notified the National Audiovisual Council CNA on the intention to introduce in January February 2014 at the latest an on demand audiovisual media service called Agerpres According to the manager of UPC Romania owned Smaranda Radoi UPC will allow customers to watch movies on demand or live events as well as broadcasts of performances concerts and sporting events In November 2008 pay per view made its debut in Albania through Digitalb on terrestrial and satellite television with the channel DigiGold 42 In France launched in the late 1990s Canalsat Cine and TPS Multivision operate their own pay per view service While CanalSat holds the rights to live soccer matches for France s Ligue 1 TPS had the rights for Boxe matches In 2007 Multivision service ceased by the end of TPS service which merged with Canalsat Nowadays Cine is the only existing pay per view service in France In Croatia Fight Channel is broadcasting martial arts events organized by the world s most prominent fighting organizations such as the UFC K 1 HBO Boxing Dream Glory WS World Series of Boxing etc and its pay per view service covers the Balkans region Sky Deutschland accessible in Germany Austria and partially in Switzerland provided nine PPV Channels called Sky Select where their regular Pay TV customers can see movies or various sports events such as boxing or soccer 43 As of 1 October 2020 only sport and wrestling events remained on PPV as movies were changed towards a streaming service 44 South America Edit This section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed November 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message Per nations with Pay Per View or PPV system in South America In Argentina Torneos y Competencias is a producer and sports events organization that are broadcasts live main matches of Argentine Soccer in four categories on TyC Sports TyC Max six channels TyC Sports 2 TyC Sports 4 and TyC Sports 5 In Brazil in the soccer main matches of Serie A Six games per matchday and Serie B Four games per matchday in two categories of Brazilian Soccer are broadcast live on Premiere FC and SporTV The Serie C Championship are broadcast live on SporTV with two games per matchday in Pay TV In other sports are broadcast live on NBB TV Exclusive channel of Brazilian Basketball League in Premium system In Chile the exclusive rights of Chilean Soccer are owned by TV Futbol and broadcast live on a channel called Canal Del Futbol The Soccer Channel also known CDF Sports Field S A has exclusive rights to games on the Chilean professional basketball league which are broadcast live via CDO Premium Signal In Paraguay the Teledeportes producer business have exclusive rights to broadcast live main matches of Paraguayan Soccer in four categories via Tigo Max and Tigo Sports Teledeportes have live broadcast of Paraguayan Basketball League broadcast Tuesday at 9 00 pm on Tigo Sports K O 21 15 and Wednesday at 8 55 pm on Tigo Max K O 21 10 In Uruguay the Tenfield producer business and sports events organization have television exclusive rights for the Uruguayan soccer and basketball club championships which are broadcast on VTV and VTV Plus Australia and the Pacific Islands Edit Foxtel and Optus Vision introduced pay per view direct to home television in Australia in the mid to late 1990s Foxtel had Event TV until it transformed into its current form Main Event while Optus Vision had Main Attraction Pay Per View as its provider As of 2005 Main Event is the current pay per view provider through Foxtel and Optus cable satellite subscription Sky Pacific started a service in Fiji in 2005 and then expanded into American Samoa Cook Islands Fiji Kiribati East Nauru New Caledonia Niue Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga and Vanuatu with one out of their 25 channels being Pay Per View 45 Asia Edit In Malaysia Astro s Astro Box Office service launched in 2000 in the form of the free to air Astro Showcase In Japan SkyPerfecTV subscribers can receive one click pay per view access to hundreds of channels supplying domestic and international sporting events including WWE events movies and specialty programming either live or later on continuous repeat on its channel In India a pay per view service operates however pay per view sports broadcasts are available Now also live events like WWE citation needed List of largest pay per view markets EditLargest pay per view markets as of 2021 46 Rank Country Annual revenue 2021 1 United States 2 060 000 0002 United Kingdom 1 180 000 0003 Japan 1 130 000 0004 Germany 620 000 0005 China 460 000 000List of pay per view bouts EditBoxing Edit Worldwide Edit The following is a list of boxing fights that have generated over 1 million pay per view buys worldwide These figures include closed circuit theatre television CCTV pay per view home television PPV and pay per view online streaming iPPV Fights which held the worldwide record in terms of sales and or revenue Date Fight Network s Sales Revenue est Revenue est inflation March 8 1971 Muhammad Ali vs Joe Frazier Closed circuit theatre TV 2 590 000 47 48 45 750 000 49 50 300 000 000October 30 1974 Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman Closed circuit theatre TV 50 000 000 5 100 000 000 51 52 600 000 000October 1 1975 Muhammad Ali vs Joe Frazier III Closed circuit theatre TVHBO 100 000 000 6 dubious discuss 100 000 000 500 000 000September 27 1976 Muhammad Ali vs Ken Norton III Closed circuit theatre TV 1 500 000 53 33 500 000 54 55 170 000 000June 20 1980 Roberto Duran vs Sugar Ray Leonard Closed circuit theatre TV HBO 1 655 000 56 15 30 000 000 57 110 000 000June 11 1982 Larry Holmes vs Gerry Cooney Closed circuit theatre TV 2 000 000 58 20 000 000 3 60 000 000April 6 1987 Sugar Ray Leonard vs Marvin Hagler Closed circuit theatre TV HBO 3 150 000 3 60 000 000 59 150 000 000June 27 1988 Mike Tyson vs Michael Spinks Closed circuit theatre TVHBO 1 500 000 60 61 70 000 000 59 170 000 000April 19 1991 Evander Holyfield vs George Foreman HBO 1 400 000 62 75 000 000 63 160 000 000June 28 1991 Mike Tyson vs Donovan Ruddock II Showtime 1 250 000 64 49 142 000 65 66 110 000 000August 19 1995 Mike Tyson vs Peter McNeeley Showtime 1 600 000 67 110 000 000 68 69 210 000 000March 16 1996 Frank Bruno vs Mike Tyson II Showtime Sky Box Office 2 060 000 67 70 98 000 000 71 183 000 000September 7 1996 Mike Tyson vs Bruce Seldon Showtime 1 150 000 62 63 810 000 67 119 000 000November 9 1996 Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield Showtime 1 600 000 67 94 200 000 67 180 000 000June 28 1997 Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield II ShowtimeSky Box OfficeClosed circuit theatre TV 2 670 000 3 72 73 180 000 000 74 330 000 000September 18 1999 Oscar De La Hoya vs Felix Trinidad HBO 1 400 000 62 74 100 000 75 130 000 000June 8 2002 Lennox Lewis vs Mike Tyson HBOShowtimeSky Box Office 2 720 000 62 76 112 000 000 77 182 000 000May 5 2007 Oscar De La Hoya vs Floyd Mayweather Jr HBOClosed circuit theatre TV 2 450 000 62 78 165 000 000 79 200 000 000December 8 2007 Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Ricky Hatton HBOSky Box Office 2 400 000 80 134 000 000 80 190 000 000December 6 2008 Oscar De La Hoya vs Manny Pacquiao HBO 1 250 000 62 100 000 000 79 140 000 000May 2 2009 Manny Pacquiao vs Ricky Hatton HBOSky Box Office 1 750 000 81 82 80 200 000 a 109 000 000September 19 2009 Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Juan Manuel Marquez HBO 1 060 000 83 58 810 000 84 80 000 000November 14 2009 Manny Pacquiao vs Miguel Cotto HBO 1 250 000 85 78 850 000 86 108 000 000May 1 2010 Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Shane Mosley HBO 1 400 000 62 89 330 000 87 69 120 000 000November 13 2010 Manny Pacquiao vs Antonio Margarito HBO 1 150 000 88 69 400 000 89 90 000 000May 7 2011 Manny Pacquiao vs Shane Mosley Showtime 1 340 000 90 83 900 000 91 109 000 000September 17 2011 Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Victor Ortiz HBO 1 250 000 92 87 440 000 93 69 114 000 000November 13 2011 Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez III HBO 1 400 000 94 88 580 000 95 69 120 000 000May 5 2012 Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Miguel Cotto HBO 1 500 000 96 94 000 000 68 120 000 000December 8 2012 Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez IV HBO 1 150 000 97 80 400 000 98 100 000 000September 14 2013 Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Canelo Alvarez Showtime 2 200 000 99 150 000 000 21 190 000 000May 2 2015 Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Manny Pacquiao HBOShowtimeSky Box OfficeClosed circuit theatre TV 5 773 000 100 101 102 500 000 000 103 500 000 000April 29 2017 Anthony Joshua vs Wladimir Klitschko Sky Box Office 1 631 000 104 68 000 000 105 68 000 000August 26 2017 Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Conor McGregor ShowtimeSky Box Office 5 174 000 500 000 000 106 500 000 000September 16 2017 Canelo Alvarez vs Gennady Golovkin HBO 1 300 000 107 100 000 000 107 100 000 000March 31 2018 Anthony Joshua vs Joseph Parker Sky Box Office 1 832 000 108 104 60 000 000 109 110 60 000 000August 25 2018 KSI vs Logan Paul YouTube 1 300 000 111 16 500 000 112 113 16 500 000Sep 15 2018 Canelo Alvarez vs Gennady Golovkin II HBO 1 100 000 114 117 000 000 114 117 000 000Sept 22 2018 Anthony Joshua vs Alexander Povetkin Sky Box Office 1 247 000 115 104 54 000 000 116 117 110 53 000 000November 9 2019 KSI vs Logan Paul II Sky Box Office DAZN 2 000 000 118 December 7 2019 Andy Ruiz Jr vs Anthony Joshua II Sky Box Office 1 575 000 119 February 22 2020 Deontay Wilder vs Tyson Fury II ESPNFox Sports 1 200 000 120 112 900 000 121 November 28 2020 Mike Tyson vs Roy Jones Jr Triller 1 600 000 122 80 000 000 122 80 000 000 122 June 6 2021 Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Logan Paul Showtime 1 000 000 123 50 000 000 124 United States closed circuit theatre TV Edit Select boxing buy rates at American closed circuit theatre television venues between 1951 and 2015 Fights which held the US closed circuit sales record in terms of buys and or revenue Date Fight Buys Revenue Revenue inflation June 15 1951 Joe Louis vs Lee Savold 81 022 125 100 000 126 1 130 000September 12 1951 Sugar Ray Robinson vs Randolph Turpin II 100 000 127 200 000 127 2 250 000September 23 1952 Rocky Marciano vs Joe Walcott 40 000 128 192 000 129 2 120 000September 21 1955 Rocky Marciano vs Archie Moore 300 000 130 1 125 000 131 12 290 000September 23 1957 Sugar Ray Robinson vs Carmen Basilio 500 000 132 1 750 000 133 15 630 000March 25 1958 Sugar Ray Robinson vs Carmen Basilio II 400 000 134 2 000 000 135 20 290 000August 18 1958 Floyd Patterson vs Roy Harris 192 762 136 763 437 136 7 660 000June 26 1959 Floyd Patterson vs Ingemar Johansson 244 000 137 1 032 000 137 10 360 000June 20 1960 Floyd Patterson vs Ingemar Johansson II 500 000 138 3 000 000 139 29 680 000March 13 1961 Floyd Patterson vs Ingemar Johansson III 500 000 140 2 500 000 140 24 480 000September 25 1962 Floyd Patterson vs Sonny Liston 600 000 141 3 200 000 47 30 960 000March 13 1963 Cassius Clay vs Doug Jones 150 000 142 500 000 11 4 780 000July 22 1963 Floyd Patterson vs Sonny Liston II 563 000 47 4 747 690 143 45 930 000February 25 1964 Muhammad Ali vs Sonny Liston 700 000 144 5 000 000 144 47 200 000January 2 1965 Floyd Patterson vs George Chuvalo 300 000 145 800 000 146 7 430 000May 25 1965 Muhammad Ali vs Sonny Liston II 630 000 147 4 300 000 2 39 930 000November 22 1965 Muhammad Ali vs Floyd Patterson 500 000 148 4 000 000 2 37 100 000November 14 1966 Muhammad Ali vs Cleveland Williams 500 000 149 3 750 000 149 34 820 000February 6 1967 Muhammad Ali vs Ernie Terrell 800 000 150 4 000 000 150 36 080 000October 26 1970 Muhammad Ali vs Jerry Quarry 630 000 151 152 3 500 000 153 26 370 000March 8 1971 Muhammad Ali vs Joe Frazier 2 500 000 47 45 000 000 49 325 000 000October 30 1974 Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman 3 000 000 3 60 000 000 3 360 000 000October 1 1975 Muhammad Ali vs Joe Frazier III 3 000 000 3 60 000 000 3 300 000 000September 27 1976 Muhammad Ali vs Ken Norton III 1 500 000 53 30 000 000 54 150 000 000Jun 20 1980 Roberto Duran vs Sugar Ray Leonard 1 500 000 56 22 000 000 154 78 140 000June 11 1982 Larry Holmes vs Gerry Cooney 2 000 000 58 20 000 000 3 60 650 000April 15 1985 Marvin Hagler vs Thomas Hearns 700 000 155 10 500 000 156 28 570 000April 6 1987 Sugar Ray Leonard vs Marvin Hagler 3 000 000 3 40 000 000 157 103 030 000June 27 1988 Mike Tyson vs Michael Spinks 800 000 60 32 000 000 60 79 180 000June 28 1997 Evander Holyfield vs Mike Tyson II 120 000 73 9 000 000 3 16 410 000May 5 2007 Oscar De La Hoya vs Floyd Mayweather Jr 50 000 78 2 750 000 158 3 880 000May 2 2015 Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Manny Pacquiao 173 000 102 25 900 000 102 31 980 000United States PPV home television Edit Select PPV boxing buy rates between 1960 and 2023 Fights which held the US sales record on PPV home television Date Fight Result Carrier Buy rateJune 20 1960 Floyd Patterson vs Ingemar Johansson II Patterson wins by KO in round 5 TelePrompTer 25 000 9 March 13 1961 Floyd Patterson vs Ingemar Johansson III Patterson wins by KO in round 6 TelePrompTer 100 000 10 September 25 1962 Floyd Patterson vs Sonny Liston Liston wins by KO in round 1 TelePrompTer 100 000 159 February 25 1964 Muhammad Ali vs Sonny Liston Ali wins by RTD in round 6 WHCT 12 250 000 13 Oct 1 1975 Muhammad Ali vs Joe Frazier III Ali wins by TKO in round 14 HBO 500 000 14 Jun 20 1980 Sugar Ray Leonard vs Roberto Duran Duran wins by UD 145 144 148 147 146 144 HBO 155 000 15 Sep 16 1981 Sugar Ray Leonard vs Thomas Hearns Leonard wins by TKO in round 14 HBO 583 200 160 Apr 15 1985 Marvin Hagler vs Thomas Hearns Hagler wins by TKO in round 3 HBO 100 000 155 Apr 6 1987 Marvin Hagler vs Sugar Ray Leonard Leonard wins by SD 118 110 113 115 115 113 HBO 150 000 3 Jun 27 1988 Mike Tyson vs Michael Spinks Tyson wins by KO in round 1 HBO 700 000 61 Nov 7 1988 Donny Lalonde vs Sugar Ray Leonard Leonard wins by TKO in round 9 HBO 700 000 161 Oct 25 1990 Buster Douglas vs Evander Holyfield Holyfield wins by KO in round 3 Showtime 1 000 000 61 March 18 1991 Mike Tyson vs Donovan Ruddock Tyson wins by TKO in round 7 Showtime 960 000 162 Apr 19 1991 Evander Holyfield vs George Foreman Holyfield wins by UD 116 111 117 110 115 112 HBO 1 400 000 62 Jun 28 1991 Mike Tyson vs Donovan Ruddock II Tyson wins by UD 113 109 114 108 114 108 Showtime 1 250 000 64 Oct 18 1991 Ray Mercer vs Tommy Morrison Mercer wins by KO in round 5 HBO 200 000 163 Jun 19 1992 Evander Holyfield vs Larry Holmes Holyfield wins by UD 117 111 116 112 116 112 HBO 730 000 164 Sep 12 1992 Julio Cesar Chavez vs Hector Camacho Chavez wins by UD 110 119 111 117 107 120 Showtime 800 000 165 Nov 13 1992 Evander Holyfield vs Riddick Bowe Bowe wins by UD 117 110 117 110 115 112 HBO 900 000 166 Jun 7 1993 George Foreman vs Tommy Morrison Morrison wins by UD 117 110 117 110 118 108 HBO 600 000 167 Sep 10 1993 Pernell Whitaker vs Julio Cesar Chavez Majority draw 115 113 115 115 115 115 Showtime 740 000 168 Nov 6 1993 Riddick Bowe vs Evander Holyfield II Holyfield wins by MD 115 113 115 114 114 114 HBO 950 000 169 Nov 18 1994 James Toney vs Roy Jones Jr Jones Jr wins by UD 119 108 118 109 117 110 HBO 300 000 170 May 6 1995 Oscar De La Hoya vs Rafael Ruelas De La Hoya wins by TKO in round 2 HBO 330 000 171 Aug 19 1995 Mike Tyson vs Peter McNeeley Tyson wins by DQ in round 1 Showtime 1 600 000 67 Nov 4 1995 Riddick Bowe vs Evander Holyfield III Bowe wins by TKO in round 8 HBO 650 000 172 Mar 16 1996 Frank Bruno vs Mike Tyson II Tyson wins by TKO in round 3 Showtime 1 400 000 67 Sep 7 1996 Mike Tyson vs Bruce Seldon Tyson wins by TKO in round 1 Showtime 1 150 000 62 Nov 9 1996 Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield Holyfield wins by TKO in round 11 Showtime 1 600 000 67 Apr 12 1997 Pernell Whitaker vs Oscar De La Hoya De La Hoya wins by UD 115 111 116 110 116 110 HBO 720 000 173 Jun 28 1997 Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield II Holyfield wins by DQ in round 3 Showtime 1 990 000 62 Sep 13 1997 Oscar De La Hoya vs Hector Camacho De La Hoya wins by UD 120 106 120 105 118 108 HBO 560 000 173 Oct 4 1997 Lennox Lewis vs Andrew Golota Lewis wins by KO in round 1 HBO 300 000 174 Nov 8 1997 Evander Holyfield vs Michael Moorer II Holyfield wins by RTD in round 8 Showtime 550 000 175 Jan 16 1999 Mike Tyson vs Francois Botha Tyson wins by KO in round 5 Showtime 750 000 176 Mar 13 1999 Evander Holyfield vs Lennox Lewis Split draw 116 113 113 115 115 115 HBO 1 200 000 177 Sep 18 1999 Oscar De La Hoya vs Felix Trinidad Trinidad wins by MD 115 113 115 114 114 114 HBO 1 400 000 62 Nov 13 1999 Evander Holyfield vs Lennox Lewis II Lewis wins by UD 116 112 117 111 115 113 HBO 850 000 177 Apr 29 2000 Lennox Lewis vs Michael Grant Lewis wins by KO in round 2 HBO 340 000 177 Jun 17 2000 Oscar De La Hoya vs Shane Mosley Mosley wins by SD 116 112 115 113 113 115 HBO 590 000 173 Sep 9 2000 Roy Jones Jr vs Eric Harding Jones Jr wins by RTD in round 10 HBO 125 000 178 Oct 20 2000 Mike Tyson vs Andrew Golota Tyson wins by TKO in round 3 later changed to an NC Showtime 450 000 179 Nov 11 2000 Lennox Lewis vs David Tua Lewis wins by UD 119 109 118 110 117 111 HBO 420 000 177 Mar 3 2001 Evander Holyfield vs John Ruiz II Ruiz wins by UD 116 110 115 111 114 111 Showtime 185 000 180 Apr 7 2001 Naseem Hamed vs Marco Antonio Barrera Barrera wins by UD 116 111 115 112 115 112 HBO 310 000 181 Jun 8 2001 Laila Ali vs Jacqui Frazier Lyde Ali wins by MD 73 79 75 77 76 76 125 000 182 Nov 17 2001 Hasim Rahman vs Lennox Lewis II Lewis wins by KO in round 4 HBO 460 000 183 Jun 8 2002 Lennox Lewis vs Mike Tyson Lewis wins by KO in round 8 HBO Showtime 1 970 000 62 Sep 14 2002 Oscar De La Hoya vs Fernando Vargas De La Hoya wins by TKO in round 11 HBO 935 000 173 Feb 22 2003 Mike Tyson vs Clifford Etienne Tyson wins by KO in round 1 Showtime 100 000 180 Mar 1 2003 John Ruiz vs Roy Jones Jr Jones Jr wins by UD 118 110 117 111 116 112 HBO 525 000 180 Sep 13 2003 Oscar De La Hoya vs Shane Mosley II Mosley wins by UD 113 115 113 115 113 115 HBO 950 000 173 Oct 4 2003 James Toney vs Evander Holyfield Toney wins by TKO in round 9 Showtime 150 000 184 Nov 8 2003 Antonio Tarver vs Roy Jones Jr Jones Jr wins by MD 117 111 116 112 114 114 HBO 302 000 185 May 15 2004 Roy Jones Jr vs Antonio Tarver II Tarver wins by KO in round 2 HBO 360 000 186 Sep 18 2004 Bernard Hopkins vs Oscar De La Hoya Hopkins wins by KO in round 9 HBO 1 000 000 173 Dec 11 2004 Vitali Klitschko vs Danny Williams Klitschko wins by TKO in round 8 HBO 120 000 187 Mar 19 2005 Erik Morales vs Manny Pacquiao Morales wins by UD 115 113 115 113 115 113 HBO 345 000 188 Jun 11 2005 Mike Tyson vs Kevin McBride McBride wins by TKO in round 7 Showtime 250 000 189 Jun 25 2005 Arturo Gatti vs Floyd Mayweather Jr Mayweather Jr wins by RTD in round 6 HBO 340 000 188 Oct 1 2005 Antonio Tarver vs Roy Jones Jr III Tarver wins by UD 117 111 116 112 116 112 HBO 405 000 190 Jan 21 2006 Manny Pacquiao vs Erik Morales II Pacquiao wins by TKO in round 10 HBO 360 000 191 Feb 25 2006 Shane Mosley vs Fernando Vargas Mosley wins by TKO in round 10 HBO 415 000 192 Apr 8 2006 Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Zab Judah Mayweather Jr wins by UD 116 112 117 111 119 109 HBO 375 000 191 May 6 2006 Ricardo Mayorga vs Oscar De La Hoya De La Hoya wins by TKO in round 6 HBO 925 000 193 May 6 2006 Manny Pacquiao vs oscar Larios Pacquiao wins by UD 117 110 118 108 120 106 Top Rank 120 000 194 Jul 15 2006 Shane Mosley vs Fernando Vargas II Mosley wins by TKO in round 6 HBO 350 000 192 Aug 12 2006 Hasim Rahman vs Oleg Maskaev II Maskaev wins by TKO in round 12 HBO 60 000 195 Nov 4 2006 Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Carlos Baldomir Mayweather Jr wins by UD 120 108 120 108 118 110 HBO 325 000 191 Nov 18 2006 Manny Pacquiao vs Erik Morales III Pacquiao wins by KO in round 3 HBO 350 000 191 Apr 14 2007 Manny Pacquiao vs Jorge Solis Pacquiao wins by KO in round 8 Top Rank 150 000 196 May 5 2007 Oscar De La Hoya vs Floyd Mayweather Jr Mayweather Jr wins by SD 116 112 115 113 113 115 HBO 2 400 000 62 Oct 10 2007 Manny Pacquiao vs Marco Antonio Barrera II Pacquiao wins by UD 118 109 118 109 115 112 HBO 350 000 197 Dec 8 2007 Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Ricky Hatton Mayweather Jr wins by TKO in round 10 HBO 920 000 83 Jan 19 2008 Felix Trinidad vs Roy Jones Jr Jones Jr wins by UD 116 110 117 109 116 110 HBO 500 000 198 Feb 16 2008 Kelly Pavlik vs Jermain Taylor II Pavlik wins by UD 115 113 117 111 116 112 HBO 250 000 198 Mar 15 2008 Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez II Pacquiao wins by SD 115 112 114 113 112 115 HBO 400 000 199 Jun 28 2008 David Diaz vs Manny Pacquiao Pacquiao wins by TKO in round 9 HBO 206 000 200 Jul 26 2008 Miguel Cotto vs Antonio Margarito Margarito wins by TKO in round 11 HBO 450 000 201 Nov 8 2008 Joe Calzaghe vs Roy Jones Jr Calzaghe wins by UD 118 109 118 109 118 109 HBO 225 000 201 Dec 6 2008 Oscar De La Hoya vs Manny Pacquiao Pacquiao wins by RTD in round 8 HBO 1 250 000 62 May 2 2009 Manny Pacquiao vs Ricky Hatton Pacquiao wins by KO in round 2 HBO 850 000 81 Sep 19 2009 Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Juan Manuel Marquez Mayweather Jr wins by UD 120 107 119 108 118 109 HBO 1 060 000 83 Nov 14 2009 Manny Pacquiao vs Miguel Cotto Pacquiao wins by TKO in round 12 HBO 1 250 000 85 Mar 13 2010 Manny Pacquiao vs Joshua Clottey Pacquiao wins by UD 119 109 119 109 120 108 HBO 700 000 202 Apr 3 2010 Bernard Hopkins vs Roy Jones Jr II Hopkins win by UD 118 109 117 110 117 110 HBO 150 000 203 May 1 2010 Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Shane Mosley Mayweather Jr wins by UD 119 109 118 110 119 109 HBO 1 400 000 62 Nov 13 2010 Manny Pacquiao vs Antonio Margarito Pacquiao wins by UD 120 108 118 110 119 109 HBO 1 150 000 88 May 7 2011 Manny Pacquiao vs Shane Mosley Pacquiao wins by UD 119 108 120 108 120 107 Showtime 1 340 000 90 Sep 17 2011 Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Victor Ortiz Mayweather Jr wins by KO in round 4 HBO 1 250 000 92 Nov 13 2011 Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez III Pacquiao wins by MD 115 113 114 114 116 112 HBO 1 400 000 94 Dec 3 2011 Miguel Cotto vs Antonio Margarito II Cotto wins by RTD in round 9 HBO 600 000 204 May 5 2012 Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Miguel Cotto Mayweather Jr wins by UD 117 111 117 111 118 110 HBO 1 500 000 96 Jun 9 2012 Manny Pacquiao vs Timothy Bradley Bradley wins by SD 115 113 115 113 115 113 HBO 890 000 205 Sep 15 2012 Sergio Martinez vs Julio Cesar Chavez Jr Martinez wins by UD 118 109 118 109 117 110 HBO 475 000 206 Dec 8 2012 Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez IV Marquez wins by KO in round 6 HBO 1 150 000 97 May 4 2013 Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Robert Guerrero Mayweather Jr wins by UD 117 111 117 111 117 111 Showtime 1 000 000 207 Sep 14 2013 Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Canelo Alvarez Mayweather Jr wins by MD 117 111 116 112 114 114 Showtime 2 200 000 99 Oct 12 2013 Timothy Bradley vs Juan Manuel Marquez Bradley wins by SD 115 113 116 112 113 115 HBO 375 000 208 Nov 24 2013 Manny Pacquiao vs Brandon Rios Pacquiao wins by UD 119 109 120 108 118 110 HBO 475 000 209 Mar 8 2014 Canelo Alvarez vs Alfredo Angulo Alvarez wins by TKO in Round 10 Showtime 350 000 210 Apr 12 2014 Manny Pacquiao vs Timothy Bradley II Pacquiao wins by UD 116 112 116 112 118 110 HBO 800 000 211 May 3 2014 Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Marcos Maidana Mayweather Jr wins by MD 114 114 117 111 116 112 Showtime 900 000 212 Jun 7 2014 Miguel Cotto vs Sergio Martinez Cotto wins by RTD in round 10 HBO 315 000 213 Jul 12 2014 Canelo Alvarez vs Erislandy Lara Alvarez wins by SD 115 113 117 111 113 115 Showtime 300 000 214 Sep 13 2014 Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Marcos Maidana II Mayweather Jr wins by UD 116 111 116 111 115 112 Showtime 925 000 212 Nov 23 2014 Manny Pacquiao vs Chris Algieri Pacquiao wins by UD 119 103 119 103 120 102 HBO 400 000 215 May 2 2015 Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Manny Pacquiao Mayweather Jr wins by UD 116 112 116 112 118 110 HBO Showtime 4 600 000 100 Sep 12 2015 Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Andre Berto Mayweather Jr wins by UD 120 108 118 110 117 111 Showtime 400 000 216 Oct 17 2015 Gennady Golovkin vs David Lemieux Golovkin wins by TKO in round 8 HBO 150 000 217 Nov 21 2015 Miguel Cotto vs Canelo Alvarez Alvarez wins by UD 117 111 119 109 118 110 HBO 900 000 218 Apr 9 2016 Manny Pacquiao vs Timothy Bradley III Pacquiao wins by UD 116 110 116 110 116 110 HBO 400 000 219 May 7 2016 Canelo Alvarez vs Amir Khan Alvarez wins by KO in round 6 HBO 600 000 220 July 23 2016 Terence Crawford vs Viktor Postol Crawford wins by UD 118 107 118 107 117 108 HBO 55 000 221 Sep 17 2016 Canelo Alvarez vs Liam Smith Alvarez wins by TKO in round 9 HBO 300 000 222 Nov 5 2016 Manny Pacquiao vs Jessie Vargas Pacquiao wins by UD 118 109 118 109 114 113 Top Rank 300 000 223 Nov 19 2016 Sergey Kovalev vs Andre Ward Ward wins by UD 114 113 114 113 114 113 HBO 165 000 224 Mar 18 2017 Gennady Golovkin vs Daniel Jacobs Golovkin wins by UD 115 112 115 112 114 113 HBO 170 000 225 May 6 2017 Canelo Alvarez vs Julio Cesar Chavez Jr Alvarez wins by UD 120 108 120 108 120 108 HBO 1 000 000 226 Jun 17 2017 Andre Ward vs Sergey Kovalev II Ward wins by TKO in round 8 HBO 130 000 227 Aug 26 2017 Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Conor McGregor Mayweather Jr wins by TKO in round 10 Showtime 4 300 000 228 Sep 16 2017 Canelo Alvarez vs Gennady Golovkin Split draw 118 110 115 113 114 114 HBO 1 300 000 107 Sep 15 2018 Canelo Alvarez vs Gennady Golovkin II Alvarez wins by MD 115 113 114 114 115 113 HBO 1 100 000 114 Dec 1 2018 Deontay Wilder vs Tyson Fury Split draw 115 111 113 113 112 114 Showtime 325 000 229 Jan 19 2019 Manny Pacquiao vs Adrien Broner Pacquiao wins by UD 117 111 116 112 116 112 Showtime 400 000 230 Mar 16 2019 Errol Spence Jr vs Mikey Garcia Spence Jr wins by UD 120 107 120 108 120 108 Fox 375 000 231 Apr 20 2019 Terence Crawford vs Amir Khan Crawford wins by TKO in round 6 ESPN 150 000 232 Jul 20 2019 Manny Pacquiao vs Keith Thurman Pacquiao wins by SD 115 112 115 112 113 114 Fox 500 000 233 Sep 28 2019 Errol Spence Jr vs Shawn Porter Spence wins by SD 116 111 116 111 112 115 Fox 350 000 234 Nov 9 2019 KSI vs Logan Paul II KSI wins by SD 56 55 57 54 55 56 DAZN 2 000 000 118 Nov 23 2019 Deontay Wilder vs Luis Ortiz II Wilder wins by KO in round 7 Fox 275 000 235 Feb 22 2020 Deontay Wilder vs Tyson Fury II Fury wins by TKO in round 7 ESPN Fox 800 000 236 Sep 26 2020 Jermall Charlo vs Sergiy Derevyanchenko Charlo wins by UD 116 112 118 110 117 111 Showtime 120 000 237 Oct 31 2020 Gervonta Davis vs Leo Santa Cruz Davis wins by KO in round 6 Showtime 225 000 238 Nov 28 2020 Mike Tyson vs Roy Jones Jr Split draw 76 76 79 73 76 80 Triller 1 600 000 122 Dec 5 2020 Errol Spence Jr vs Danny Garcia Spence wins by UD 117 111 116 112 116 112 Fox 250 000 239 May 1 2021 Chris Arreola vs Andy Ruiz Jr Ruiz wins by UD 118 109 118 109 117 110 Fox 150 000 240 Jun 6 2021 Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Logan Paul Exhibition fight no winner declared Showtime 1 000 000 241 242 Jun 26 2021 Mario Barrios vs Gervonta Davis Davis wins by TKO in round 11 Showtime 200 000 243 Aug 21 2021 Manny Pacquiao vs Yordenis Ugas Ugas wins by UD 116 112 116 112 115 113 Fox 250 000 244 Aug 29 2021 Jake Paul vs Tyron Woodley Paul wins by SD 78 74 77 75 75 77 Showtime 500 000 245 246 Oct 9 2021 Tyson Fury vs Deontay Wilder III Fury wins by KO in round 11 ESPN Fox 600 000 247 Nov 6 2021 Canelo Alvarez vs Caleb Plant Alvarez wins by TKO in round 11 Showtime 800 000 248 Nov 20 2021 Terence Crawford vs Shawn Porter Crawford wins by TKO in round 10 ESPN 135 000 249 250 Dec 5 2021 Gervonta Davis vs Isaac Cruz Davis wins by UD 115 113 115 113 116 112 Showtime 100 000 251 252 253 May 7 2022 Canelo Alvarez vs Dmitry Bivol Bivol wins by UD 115 113 115 113 115 113 DAZN 520 000 254 May 28 2022 Gervonta Davis vs Rolando Romero Davis wins by TKO in round 6 Showtime 275 000 255 Sep 17 2022 Canelo Alvarez vs Gennady Golovkin III Alvarez wins by UD 116 112 115 113 115 113 DAZN 850 000 256 Oct 15 2022 Deontay Wilder vs Robert Helenius Wilder wins by KO in round 1 Fox 75 000 257 Apr 22 2023 Gervonta Davis vs Ryan Garcia Davis wins by TKO in round 7 Showtime 1 200 000 258 May 20 2023 Devin Haney vs Vasiliy Lomachenko Haney wins by UD 115 113 116 112 115 113 ESPN 150 000 259 Jul 29 2023 Errol Spence Jr vs Terence Crawford Crawford wins by TKO in round 9 Showtime 675 000 260 United Kingdom Edit Select boxing pay per view figures mainly from Sky Box Office since 1966 Many of these figures are based on BARB weekly viewing data figures 261 Fights which held the UK PPV sales record Date Fight Network Buys Source s 21 May 1966 Muhammad Ali vs Henry Cooper II Pay TV 40 000 262 16 March 1996 Frank Bruno vs Mike Tyson II Sky Box Office 660 000 70 9 November 1996 Naseem Hamed vs Remigio Molina Sky Box Office 420 000 70 263 8 February 1997 Naseem Hamed vs Tom Johnson Sky Box Office 720 000 70 264 3 May 1997 Naseem Hamed vs Billy Hardy Sky Box Office 348 000 70 265 28 June 1997 Evander Holyfield vs Mike Tyson II Sky Box Office 550 000 72 13 March 1999 Evander Holyfield vs Lennox Lewis Sky Box Office 400 000 266 29 January 2000 Mike Tyson vs Julius Francis Sky Box Office 500 000 72 19 August 2000 Naseem Hamed vs Augie Sanchez Sky Box Office 300 000 267 8 June 2002 Lennox Lewis vs Mike Tyson Sky Box Office 750 000 76 8 December 2007 Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Ricky Hatton Sky Box Office 1 150 000 268 2 May 2009 Manny Pacquiao vs Ricky Hatton Sky Box Office 900 000 82 18 July 2009 Amir Khan vs Andreas Kotelnik Sky Box Office 100 000 269 7 November 2009 Nikolai Valuev vs David Haye Sky Box Office 469 000 270 3 April 2010 David Haye vs John Ruiz Sky Box Office 253 000 271 104 24 April 2010 Carl Froch vs Mikkel Kessler Primetime 50 000 272 18 September 2010 Kell Brook vs Michael Jennings Sky Box Office 15 000 273 13 November 2010 David Haye vs Audley Harrison Sky Box Office 304 000 270 104 11 December 2010 Amir Khan vs Marcos Maidana Sky Box Office 164 000 274 16 April 2011 Amir Khan vs Paul McCloskey Primetime 200 000 275 272 21 May 2011 George Groves vs James DeGale Sky Box Office 43 000 276 2 July 2011 Wladimir Klitschko vs David Haye Sky Box Office 1 197 000 277 278 279 25 May 2013 Carl Froch vs Mikkel Kessler II Sky Box Office 32 000 280 23 November 2013 Carl Froch vs George Groves Sky Box Office 47 000 281 31 May 2014 Carl Froch vs George Groves II Sky Box Office 355 000 282 22 November 2014 Tony Bellew vs Nathan Cleverly II Sky Box Office 131 000 283 284 2 May 2015 Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Manny Pacquiao Sky Box Office 942 000 101 285 30 May 2015 Kell Brook vs Frankie Gavin Sky Box Office 139 000 286 28 November 2015 Wladimir Klitschko vs Tyson Fury Sky Box Office 655 000 287 104 12 December 2015 Anthony Joshua vs Dillian Whyte Sky Box Office 699 000 288 289 27 February 2016 Carl Frampton vs Scott Quigg Sky Box Office 220 000 290 291 9 April 2016 Anthony Joshua vs Charles Martin Sky Box Office 1 368 000 288 292 25 June 2016 Anthony Joshua vs Dominic Breazeale Sky Box Office 617 000 293 10 September 2016 Gennady Golovkin vs Kell Brook Sky Box Office 752 000 294 295 10 December 2016 Anthony Joshua vs Eric Molina Sky Box Office 764 000 288 296 4 February 2017 Chris Eubank Jr vs Renold Quinlan ITV Box Office 86 000 297 4 March 2017 David Haye vs Tony Bellew Sky Box Office 1 515 000 298 104 29 April 2017 Anthony Joshua vs Wladimir Klitschko Sky Box Office 1 631 000 105 299 300 104 27 May 2017 Kell Brook vs Errol Spence Jr Sky Box Office 405 000 301 26 August 2017 Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Conor McGregor Sky Box Office 1 007 000 302 28 October 2017 Anthony Joshua vs Carlos Takam Sky Box Office 1 009 000 303 31 March 2018 Anthony Joshua vs Joseph Parker Sky Box Office 1 832 000 108 104 5 May 2018 David Haye vs Tony Bellew II Sky Box Office 1 048 000 304 104 28 July 2018 Dillian Whyte vs Joseph Parker Sky Box Office 571 000 305 306 22 September 2018 Anthony Joshua vs Alexander Povetkin Sky Box Office 1 247 000 115 104 10 November 2018 Oleksandr Usyk vs Tony Bellew Sky Box Office 819 000 307 1 December 2018 Deontay Wilder vs Tyson Fury BT Sport Box Office 450 000 308 22 December 2018 Dillian Whyte vs Dereck Chisora II Sky Box Office 532 000 309 1 June 2019 Anthony Joshua vs Andy Ruiz Jr Sky Box Office 652 000 310 20 July 2019 Dillian Whyte vs Oscar Rivas Sky Box Office 368 000 311 31 August 2019 Vasyl Lomachenko vs Luke Campbell Sky Box Office 205 000 312 26 October 2019 Josh Taylor vs Regis Prograis Sky Box Office 176 000 313 9 November 2019 KSI vs Logan Paul II Sky Box Office 216 000 314 7 December 2019 Andy Ruiz Jr vs Anthony Joshua II Sky Box Office 1 575 000 119 104 22 August 2020 Dillian Whyte vs Alexander Povetkin Sky Box Office 337 000 315 31 October 2020 Oleksandr Usyk vs Derek Chisora Sky Box Office 1 059 000 316 317 318 12 December 2020 Anthony Joshua vs Kubrat Pulev Sky Box Office 948 000 319 27 March 2021 Alexander Povetkin vs Dillian Whyte II Sky Box Office 197 000 320 321 1 May 2021 Derek Chisora vs Joseph Parker Sky Box Office 145 000 322 25 September 2021 Anthony Joshua vs Oleksandr Usyk Sky Box Office 1 232 000 323 324 325 9 October 2021 Tyson Fury vs Deontay Wilder III BT Sport Box Office 300 000 326 19 February 2022 Amir Khan vs Kell Brook Sky Box Office 600 000 327 20 August 2022 Oleksandr Usyk vs Anthony Joshua II Sky Box Office 1 249 000 327 328 3 December 2022 Tyson Fury vs Derek Chisora III BT Sport Box Office 500 000 329 Mixed martial arts MMA Edit The first pay per view mixed martial arts bout was Muhammad Ali vs Antonio Inoki which took place in Japan on June 26 1976 It sold at least 2 million buys on closed circuit theatre TV 330 At a ticket price of 10 331 the fight grossed at least 20 million inflation adjusted 100 million or more from closed circuit theatre TV revenue in the United States Ultimate Fighting Championship UFC Edit The highest buy rates for the UFC as of January 2021 update are as follows 332 Note The UFC does not release official PPV statistics and the following PPV numbers are as reported by industry insiders As of April 2019 all PPV s are iPPV s with distribution on the internet exclusively via ESPN Fights which held the UFC PPV sales record Date Event Headline Buy rate Revenue est Oct 6 2018 UFC 229 Khabib vs McGregor 2 400 000 333 180 million 334 335 Jul 10 2021 UFC 264 Poirier vs McGregor 3 1 800 000Aug 20 2016 UFC 202 Diaz vs McGregor 2 1 650 000 332 90 million 336 337 Jan 24 2021 UFC 257 Poirier vs McGregor 2 1 600 000 338 Jul 11 2009 UFC 100 Lesnar vs Mir 1 600 000 332 82 millionJan 18 2020 UFC 246 Cowboy vs McGregor 1 353 429 339 Mar 5 2016 UFC 196 McGregor vs Diaz 1 317 000 333 80 million 340 337 Jul 11 2020 UFC 251 Usman vs Masvidal 1 300 000 341 78 million 342 Nov 12 2016 UFC 205 Alvarez vs McGregor 1 300 000 333 83 million 343 335 Jul 9 2016 UFC 200 Tate vs Nunes 1 200 000 332 71 million 344 345 Dec 12 2015 UFC 194 Aldo vs McGregor 1 200 000 333 80 million 346 337 Jul 3 2010 UFC 116 Lesnar vs Carwin 1 160 000 332 55 millionNov 15 2015 UFC 193 Rousey vs Holm 1 100 000 60 millionDec 30 2016 UFC 207 Nunes vs Rousey 1 100 000 332 60 million 347 348 Dec 30 2006 UFC 66 Liddell vs Ortiz 2 1 050 000 332 53 millionMay 29 2010 UFC 114 Rampage vs Evans 1 050 000 332 51 million 349 350 Oct 23 2010 UFC 121 Lesnar vs Velasquez 1 050 000 332 45 millionDec 28 2013 UFC 168 Weidman vs Silva II 1 025 000 332 57 million 351 352 Nov 15 2008 UFC 91 Couture vs Lesnar 1 010 000 332 47 millionDec 27 2008 UFC 92 Evans vs Griffin 1 000 000 332 48 million 353 337 Mar 16 2013 UFC 158 St Pierre vs Diaz 950 000 332 Jul 7 2012 UFC 148 Silva vs Sonnen II 925 000Jan 31 2009 UFC 94 St Pierre vs Penn 2 920 000Aug 1 2015 UFC 190 Rousey vs Correia 900 000Nov 4 2017 UFC 217 Bisping vs St Pierre 875 000Jul 29 2017 UFC 214 Cormier vs Jones 2 860 000Aug 8 2009 UFC 101 Declaration 850 000Jul 11 2015 UFC 189 Mendes vs McGregor 825 000 354 Mar 6 2021 UFC 259 Blachowicz vs Adesanya 800 000 355 Apr 30 2011 UFC 129 St Pierre vs Shields 800 000Jan 3 2015 UFC 182 Jones vs Cormier 800 000Dec 11 2010 UFC 124 St Pierre vs Koscheck 2 785 000Mar 27 2010 UFC 111 St Pierre vs Hardy 770 000Dec 30 2011 UFC 141 Lesnar vs Overeem 750 000Feb 5 2011 UFC 126 Silva vs Belfort 725 000Nov 6 2021 UFC 268 Usman vs Covington 2 700 000Dec 29 2007 UFC 79 Nemesis 700 000Apr 21 2012 UFC 145 Jones vs Evans 700 000Nov 17 2012 UFC 154 St Pierre vs Condit 700 000Dec 29 2018 UFC 232 Jones vs Gustafsson 2 700 000Apr 24 2021 UFC 261 Usman vs Masvidal 2 700 000 356 May 9 2020 UFC 249 Ferguson vs Gaethje 700 000 357 Sep 26 2020 UFC 253 Adesanya vs Costa 700 000 358 Oct 24 2020 UFC 254 Khabib vs Gaethje 675 000 359 May 26 2007 UFC 71 Liddell vs Jackson 675 000Professional wrestling United States Edit Further information List of WWE pay per view and WWE Network events and List of NWA WCW closed circuit events and pay per view events WrestleMania I in March 1985 sold over 1 million buys on closed circuit theatre TV in the United States making it the largest pay per view showing of a wrestling event in the US at the time 360 PPV home television Edit The highest buy rates for professional wrestling events on pay per view home television as of June 2015 update are as follows 361 Fights which held the professional wrestling PPV sales record No Date Event Buy rate1 Apr 1 2012 WrestleMania XXVIII 1 300 000 362 2 Apr 1 2007 WrestleMania 23 1 200 0003 Apr 3 2005 WrestleMania 21 1 085 0004 Apr 3 2011 WrestleMania XXVII 1 059 0005 Mar 30 2008 WrestleMania XXIV 1 058 0006 Apr 7 2013 WrestleMania 29 1 048 0007 Apr 1 2001 WrestleMania X Seven 1 040 0008 Mar 14 2004 WrestleMania XX 1 007 0009 Apr 2 2006 WrestleMania 22 975 00010 Apr 5 2009 WrestleMania XXV 960 00011 Mar 28 2010 WrestleMania XXVI 885 00012 Mar 17 2002 WrestleMania X8 880 00013 Apr 2 2000 WrestleMania 2000 824 00014 Mar 28 1999 WrestleMania XV 800 00015 Jul 22 2001 WWF Invasion 770 00016 Apr 2 1989 WrestleMania V 767 000List of sportsmen with highest pay per view sales EditThis tables lists the sportsmen who have had the highest pay per view sales with at least 10 million buys It includes sportsmen who have participated in boxing mixed martial arts and professional wrestling Sportsman Total sales est Closed circuit theatre TV PPV home television Years Sport s Muhammad Ali 162 944 000 citation needed 162 154 000 b citation needed 790 000 b citation needed 1963 1985 Professional boxingMixed martial artsProfessional wrestlingJoe Frazier 100 500 000 citation needed 100 000 000 6 citation needed 500 000 14 1965 1981 Professional boxingTriple H 60 000 000 363 364 60 000 000 363 364 1992 2022 Professional wrestlingThe Undertaker 56 675 000 363 365 56 675 000 363 365 1990 2020 Professional wrestlingGeorge Foreman 52 000 000 50 000 000 5 2 000 000 62 167 1974 1993 Professional boxingFloyd Mayweather Jr 29 090 000 223 000 78 102 28 867 000 366 c 2005 2017Professional boxingManny Pacquiao 22 214 000 citation needed 173 000 102 22 041 000 d citation needed 2005 2019 Professional boxingMike Tyson 20 700 000 citation needed 920 000 e 19 780 000 e citation needed 1988 2020 Professional boxingProfessional wrestlingConor McGregor 18 400 000 citation needed 18 400 000 f 2015 2021 Mixed martial artsProfessional boxingJohn Cena 15 389 000 citation needed 15 389 000 g 2002 2021 Professional wrestlingThe Rock 14 859 000 citation needed 14 859 000 h 1998 2013Oscar De La Hoya 14 140 000 citation needed 50 000 78 14 090 000 i 1995 2008 Professional boxingAnthony Joshua 13 441 000 citation needed 13 441 000 j 2015 2021 Professional boxingBrock Lesnar 12 771 000 citation needed 12 771 000 k 2002 2020 Professional wrestlingMixed martial artsEvander Holyfield 12 720 000 citation needed 120 000 73 12 600 000 367 1984 2003 Professional boxingShawn Michaels 10 160 000 citation needed 10 160 000 g 1988 2018 Professional wrestlingSee also EditBel Air Circuit Conditional access DAZN List of AEW pay per view events List of Bellator events List of DREAM events List of ECW supercards and pay per view events List of K 1 events List of ROH pay per view events List of Strikeforce events List 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