Floyd Mayweather holds the top two Pay Per View purchase records of all time, which cannot be denied. However, Mayweather’s benchmark saw an attempt to swell the second-placed effort way above the Manny Pacquiao record vetoed.
World Boxing News understands that previous plans in the aftermath of the 2017 clash to elevate Mayweather’s final professional fight to 5.1m worldwide buys fell apart.
Mayweather defeated McGregor in August 2017 in the first boxing vs MMA collision to break down barriers in the sport, as WBN reported then and since. The event eventually fell short of Mayweather’s event with Pacquiao two years earlier. Adding worldwide sales keeps the two Showtime/HBO PPVs even further apart.
The McGregor fight sold 4.3m in the United States but 5.1m sales worldwide. However, the Pacquiao clash beat that on both fronts. “May Pac” brought in 4.4m US households and an astonishing 5.7m plus from across the planet, making it the most successful event ever.
