Over the last five years, Philippine Rep. Manny Pacquiao steadily built his reputation not only as a feared boxer but also as a big live gate draw and even bigger pay per view attraction.
With the exception of Oscar de la Hoya and Floyd Mayweather Jr, no other boxer has breached the one million PPV mark over the same period. In fact, Pacquiao figured in two of only five PPV fights since 2007 that sold more than one million buys in the US (his Ricky Hatton fight sold 850,000 in the US, excluding sale in UK and Europe). That in itself is remarkable given that Pacquiao is the only non-American boxer in that class of PPV headliners and only proved that he can now carry a blockbuster fight by sheer name alone.
HBO PPV boxing buyrates between 1999 and 2010 included:
