Pay-per-view

Pay-per-view (PPV) is a type of pay television or webcast service by which a viewer can purchase events to view via private telecast. The broadcaster shows the event at the same time to everyone ordering it.

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 service YouTube began to allow partners to host live PPV events on the platform.[1]

Events distributed through PPV typically include combat sports events such as boxing and mixed martial arts (focusing primarily on cards that include one or more significant title fights), sports entertainment such as 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 use cases 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.

History

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 a 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

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

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

A major pay-per-view event 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. 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. Viacom marketing director Pat Thompson put together the fight, and subsequently put together additional PPV fights, wrestling matches, and even a televised Broadway play.

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. Sports View played a role in building pay-per-view networks, 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. 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. 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 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.

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. 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. 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)

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] In 2014, HBO 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.

In May 2007, the super-welterweight 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

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]

Professional wrestling

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. 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.[32][33] 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

In 2009, The live streaming Broadcast of The Allman Brothers Band 40th Anniversary show, live from the Beacon Theater in NYC, was the largest on line pay per view streaming concert event, grossing in excess of $300 thousand dollars. The event was produced by Onstream Media for Moogis.com.[34]

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.[35]

United Kingdom and Ireland

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 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.

Canada

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.[36]

Mainland Europe

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.[37]

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, provides nine PPV-Channels called "Sky Select", where their regular Pay-TV customers can see movies or various sports events such as boxing or soccer.[38]

South America

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 broadcasts live main matches of Argentine Soccer in four categories on TyC Sports and TyC Max.

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 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 live of Paraguayan Basketball League is broadcast live Monday at 7:55 pm on Tigo Max (K.O 20:10) and Thursday at 8:00 pm on Tigo Sports (K.O 20:15).

In Uruguay, the Tenfield producer business and sports events organization have television exclusive rights for the main matches of Uruguayan soccer and basketball, which are broadcast on VTV Max and VTV Sports.

Australia and the Pacific Islands

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.[39]

Asia

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.

List of pay-per-view bouts

Boxing

Worldwide

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[40][41]	$45,750,000[42][43]	$300,000,000
October 30, 1974	Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman	Closed-circuit theatre TV	50,000,000[5]	$100,000,000[44][45]	$500,000,000
October 1, 1975	Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier III	Closed-circuit theatre TV HBO	100,000,000[46]	$100,000,000	$500,000,000
September 27, 1976	Muhammad Ali vs. Ken Norton III	Closed-circuit theatre TV	1,500,000[47]	$33,500,000[48][49]	$150,000,000
June 20, 1980	Roberto Durán vs. Sugar Ray Leonard	Closed-circuit theatre TV HBO	1,655,000[50][15]	$30,000,000[51]	$90,000,000
June 11, 1982	Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney	Closed-circuit theatre TV	2,000,000[52]	$20,000,000[3]	$50,000,000
April 6, 1987	Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Marvin Hagler	Closed-circuit theatre TV HBO	3,150,000[3]	$60,000,000[53]	$140,000,000
June 27, 1988	Mike Tyson vs. Michael Spinks	Closed-circuit theatre TV HBO	1,500,000[54][55]	$70,000,000[53]	$150,000,000
April 19, 1991	Evander Holyfield vs. George Foreman	HBO	1,400,000[56]	$75,000,000[57]	$140,000,000
June 28, 1991	Mike Tyson vs. Donovan Ruddock II	Showtime	1,250,000[58]	$49,142,000[59][60]	$90,000,000
August 19, 1995	Mike Tyson vs. Peter McNeeley	Showtime	1,600,000[61]	$110,000,000[62][63]	$180,000,000
March 16, 1996	Frank Bruno vs. Mike Tyson II	Showtime Sky Box Office	2,060,000[61][64]	$98,000,000[65]	$160,000,000
September 7, 1996	Mike Tyson vs. Bruce Seldon	Showtime	1,150,000[56]	$63,810,000[61]	$104,000,000
November 9, 1996	Mike Tyson vs. Evander Holyfield	Showtime	1,600,000[61]	$94,200,000[61]	$150,000,000
June 28, 1997	Mike Tyson vs. Evander Holyfield II	Showtime Sky Box Office Closed-circuit theatre TV	2,670,000[3][66][67]	$180,000,000[68]	$290,000,000
September 18, 1999	Oscar De La Hoya vs. Félix Trinidad	HBO	1,400,000[56]	$74,100,000[69]	$110,000,000
June 8, 2002	Lennox Lewis vs. Mike Tyson	HBO Showtime Sky Box Office	2,720,000[56][70]	$112,000,000[71]	$159,000,000
May 5, 2007	Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.	HBO Closed-circuit theatre TV	2,450,000[56][72]	$165,000,000[73]	$200,000,000
December 8, 2007	Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Ricky Hatton	HBO Sky Box Office	2,400,000[74]	$134,000,000[74]	$170,000,000
December 6, 2008	Oscar De La Hoya vs. Manny Pacquiao	HBO	1,250,000[56]	$100,000,000[73]	$120,000,000
May 2, 2009	Manny Pacquiao vs. Ricky Hatton	HBO Sky Box Office	1,750,000[75][76]	$80,200,000[lower-alpha 1]	$95,000,000
September 19, 2009	Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Juan Manuel Márquez	HBO	1,060,000[77]	$58,810,000[78]	$70,000,000
November 14, 2009	Manny Pacquiao vs. Miguel Cotto	HBO	1,250,000[79]	$78,850,000[80]	$94,000,000
May 1, 2010	Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Shane Mosley	HBO	1,400,000[56]	$89,330,000[81][63]	$105,000,000
November 13, 2010	Manny Pacquiao vs. Antonio Margarito	HBO	1,150,000[82]	$69,400,000[83]	$80,000,000
May 7, 2011	Manny Pacquiao vs. Shane Mosley	Showtime	1,340,000[84]	$83,900,000[85]	$95,000,000
September 17, 2011	Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs Victor Ortiz	HBO	1,250,000[86]	$87,440,000[87][63]	$99,000,000
November 13, 2011	Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Márquez III	HBO	1,400,000[88]	$88,580,000[89][63]	$100,000,000
May 5, 2012	Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Miguel Cotto	HBO	1,500,000[90]	$94,000,000[62]	$105,000,000
December 8, 2012	Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Márquez IV	HBO	1,150,000[91]	$80,400,000[92]	$90,000,000
September 14, 2013	Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Canelo Álvarez	Showtime	2,200,000[93]	$150,000,000[21]	$160,000,000
May 2, 2015	Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao	HBO Showtime Sky Box Office Closed-circuit theatre TV	5,773,000[94][95][96]	$500,000,000[97]	$500,000,000
April 29, 2017	Anthony Joshua vs. Wladimir Klitschko	Sky Box Office	1,631,000[98][99]	$67,000,000[100]	$67,000,000
August 26, 2017	Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor	Showtime Sky Box Office	5,174,000	$500,000,000[101]	$500,000,000
September 16, 2017	Canelo Álvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin	HBO	1,300,000[102]	$100,000,000[102]	$100,000,000
March 31, 2018	Anthony Joshua vs. Joseph Parker	Sky Box Office	1,832,000[103][99]	$60,000,000[104][105]	$60,000,000
August 25, 2018	KSI vs. Logan Paul	YouTube	1,300,000[106]	$16,500,000[107][108]	$16,500,000
Sep 15, 2018	Canelo Álvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin II	HBO	1,100,000[109]	$117,000,000[109]	$117,000,000
Sep 22, 2018	Anthony Joshua vs. Alexander Povetkin	Sky Box Office	1,247,000[110][99]	$53,000,000[111][112][105]	$53,000,000
December 7, 2019	Andy Ruiz Jr. vs. Anthony Joshua II	Sky Box Office	1,575,000[113]
February 22, 2020	Deontay Wilder vs. Tyson Fury II	ESPN Fox Sports	1,200,000[114]

United States (closed-circuit theatre TV)

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[115]	$100,000[116]	$990,000
September 12, 1951	Sugar Ray Robinson vs. Randolph Turpin II	100,000[117]	$200,000[117]	$1,970,000
September 23, 1952	Rocky Marciano vs. Joe Walcott	40,000[118]	$192,000[119]	$1,850,000
September 21, 1955	Rocky Marciano vs. Archie Moore	300,000[120]	$1,125,000[121]	$10,740,000
September 23, 1957	Sugar Ray Robinson vs. Carmen Basilio	500,000[122]	$1,750,000[123]	$13,650,000
March 25, 1958	Sugar Ray Robinson vs. Carmen Basilio II	400,000[124]	$2,000,000[125]	$17,720,000
August 18, 1958	Floyd Patterson vs. Roy Harris	192,762[126]	$763,437[126]	$6,700,000
June 26, 1959	Floyd Patterson vs. Ingemar Johansson	244,000[127]	$1,032,000[127]	$9,050,000
June 20, 1960	Floyd Patterson vs. Ingemar Johansson II	500,000[128]	$3,000,000[129]	$25,930,000
March 13, 1961	Floyd Patterson vs. Ingemar Johansson III	500,000[130]	$2,500,000[130]	$21,390,000
September 25, 1962	Floyd Patterson vs. Sonny Liston	600,000[131]	$3,200,000[40]	$27,050,000
March 13, 1963	Cassius Clay vs. Doug Jones	150,000[132]	$500,000[11]	$4,180,000
July 22, 1963	Floyd Patterson vs. Sonny Liston II	563,000[40]	$4,747,690[133]	$40,130,000
February 25, 1964	Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston	700,000[134]	$5,000,000[134]	$41,200,000
January 2, 1965	Floyd Patterson vs. George Chuvalo	300,000[135]	$800,000[136]	$6,490,000
May 25, 1965	Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston II	630,000[137]	$4,300,000[2]	$34,890,000
November 22, 1965	Muhammad Ali vs. Floyd Patterson	500,000[138]	$4,000,000[2]	$32,500,000
November 14, 1966	Muhammad Ali vs. Cleveland Williams	500,000[139]	$3,750,000[139]	$30,420,000
February 6, 1967	Muhammad Ali vs. Ernie Terrell	800,000[140]	$4,000,000[140]	$31,520,000
October 26, 1970	Muhammad Ali vs. Jerry Quarry	630,000[141][142]	$3,500,000[143]	$23,040,000
March 8, 1971	Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier	2,500,000[40]	$45,000,000[42]	$284,000,000
October 30, 1974	Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman	3,000,000[3]	$60,000,000[3]	$310,000,000
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[47]	$30,000,000[48]	$130,000,000
Jun 20, 1980	Roberto Durán vs. Sugar Ray Leonard	1,500,000[50]	$22,000,000[144]	$68,270,000
June 11, 1982	Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney	2,000,000[52]	$20,000,000[3]	$52,990,000
April 15, 1985	Marvin Hagler vs. Thomas Hearns	700,000[145]	$10,500,000[146]	$24,960,000
April 6, 1987	Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Marvin Hagler	3,000,000[3]	$40,000,000[147]	$90,020,000
June 27, 1988	Mike Tyson vs. Michael Spinks	800,000[54]	$32,000,000[54]	$69,180,000
June 28, 1997	Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson II	120,000[67]	$9,000,000[3]	$14,330,000
May 5, 2007	Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.	50,000[72]	$2,750,000[148]	$3,390,000
May 2, 2015	Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao	173,000[96]	$25,900,000[96]	$27,940,000

United States (PPV home television)

Select PPV boxing buy-rates (mainly from HBO, Showtime and Top Rank) between 1960 and 2020:

   — 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[149]
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	Roberto Durán vs. Sugar Ray Leonard	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[150]
Apr 15, 1985	Marvin Hagler vs. Thomas Hearns	Hagler wins by TKO in round 3	HBO	100,000[145]
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[55]
Nov 7, 1988	Donny Lalonde vs. Sugar Ray Leonard	Leonard wins by TKO in round 9	HBO	700,000[151]
Oct 25, 1990	Buster Douglas vs. Evander Holyfield	Holyfield wins by KO in round 3	Showtime	1,000,000[55]
March 18, 1991	Mike Tyson vs. Donovan Ruddock	Tyson wins by TKO in round 7	Showtime	960,000[152]
Apr 19, 1991	Evander Holyfield vs. George Foreman	Holyfield wins by UD (116–111, 117–110, 115–112)	HBO	1,400,000[56]
Jun 28, 1991	Mike Tyson vs. Donovan Ruddock II	Tyson wins by UD (113–109, 114–108, 114–108)	Showtime	1,250,000[58]
Oct 18, 1991	Ray Mercer vs. Tommy Morrison	Mercer wins by KO in round 5	HBO	200,000[153]
Jun 19, 1992	Evander Holyfield vs. Larry Holmes	Holyfield wins by UD (117–111, 116–112, 116–112)	HBO	730,000[154]
Nov 13, 1992	Evander Holyfield vs. Riddick Bowe	Bowe wins by UD (117–110, 117–110, 115–112)	HBO	900,000[155]
Jun 7, 1993	George Foreman vs. Tommy Morrison	Morrison wins by UD (117–110, 117–110, 118–108)	HBO	600,000[156]
Sep 10, 1993	Pernell Whitaker vs. Julio César Chávez	Majority draw (115–113, 115–115, 115–115)	Showtime	740,000[157]
Nov 6, 1993	Riddick Bowe vs. Evander Holyfield II	Holyfield wins by MD (115–113, 115–114, 114–114)	HBO	950,000[158]
Nov 18, 1994	James Toney vs. Roy Jones Jr.	Jones Jr. wins by UD (119–108, 118–109, 117–110)	HBO	300,000[159]
May 6, 1995	Oscar De La Hoya vs. Rafael Ruelas	De La Hoya wins by TKO in round 2	HBO	330,000[160]
Aug 19, 1995	Mike Tyson vs. Peter McNeeley	Tyson wins by DQ in round 1	Showtime	1,600,000[61]
Nov 4, 1995	Riddick Bowe vs. Evander Holyfield III	Bowe wins by TKO in round 8	HBO	650,000[161]
Mar 16, 1996	Frank Bruno vs. Mike Tyson II	Tyson wins by TKO in round 3	Showtime	1,400,000[61]
Sep 7, 1996	Mike Tyson vs. Bruce Seldon	Tyson wins by TKO in round 1	Showtime	1,150,000[56]
Nov 9, 1996	Mike Tyson vs. Evander Holyfield	Holyfield wins by TKO in round 11	Showtime	1,600,000[61]
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[162]
Jun 28, 1997	Mike Tyson vs. Evander Holyfield II	Holyfield wins by DQ in round 3	Showtime	1,990,000[56]
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[162]
Oct 4, 1997	Lennox Lewis vs. Andrew Golota	Lewis wins by KO in round 1	HBO	300,000[163]
Nov 8, 1997	Evander Holyfield vs. Michael Moorer II	Holyfield wins by RTD in round 8	Showtime	550,000[164]
Jan 16, 1999	Mike Tyson vs. Francois Botha	Tyson wins by KO in round 5	Showtime	750,000[165]
Mar 13, 1999	Evander Holyfield vs. Lennox Lewis	Split draw (116–113, 113–115, 115–115)	HBO	1,200,000[166]
Sep 18, 1999	Oscar De La Hoya vs. Félix Trinidad	Trinidad wins by MD (115–113, 115–114, 114–114)	HBO	1,400,000[56]
Nov 13, 1999	Evander Holyfield vs. Lennox Lewis II	Lewis wins by UD (116–112, 117–111, 115–113)	HBO	850,000[166]
Apr 29, 2000	Lennox Lewis vs. Michael Grant	Lewis wins by KO in round 2	HBO	340,000[166]
Jun 17, 2000	Oscar De La Hoya vs. Shane Mosley	Mosley wins by SD (116–112, 115–113, 113–115)	HBO	590,000[162]
Sep 9, 2000	Roy Jones Jr. vs. Eric Harding	Jones Jr. wins by RTD in round 10	HBO	125,000[167]
Oct 20, 2000	Mike Tyson vs. Andrew Golota	Tyson wins by TKO in round 3 (later changed to an NC)	Showtime	450,000[168]
Nov 11, 2000	Lennox Lewis vs. David Tua	Lewis wins by UD (119–109, 118–110, 117–111)	HBO	420,000[166]
Mar 3, 2001	Evander Holyfield vs. John Ruiz II	Ruiz wins by UD (116–110, 115–111, 114–111)	Showtime	185,000[169]
Apr 7, 2001	Naseem Hamed vs. Marco Antonio Barrera	Barrera wins by UD (116–111, 115–112, 115–112)	HBO	310,000[170]
Jun 8, 2001	Laila Ali vs. Jacqui Frazier-Lyde	Ali wins by MD (73–79, 75–77, 76–76)	?	125,000[171]
Nov 17, 2001	Hasim Rahman vs. Lennox Lewis II	Lewis wins by KO in round 4	HBO	460,000[172]
Jun 8, 2002	Lennox Lewis vs. Mike Tyson	Lewis wins by KO in round 8	HBO/Showtime	1,970,000[56]
Sep 14, 2002	Oscar De La Hoya vs. Fernando Vargas	De La Hoya wins by TKO in round 11	HBO	935,000[162]
Feb 22, 2003	Mike Tyson vs. Clifford Etienne	Tyson wins by KO in round 1	Showtime	100,000[169]
Mar 1, 2003	John Ruiz vs. Roy Jones Jr.	Jones Jr. wins by UD (118–110, 117–111, 116–112)	HBO	525,000[169]
Sep 13, 2003	Oscar De La Hoya vs. Shane Mosley II	Mosley wins by UD (113–115, 113–115, 113–115)	HBO	950,000[162]
Oct 4, 2003	James Toney vs. Evander Holyfield	Toney wins by TKO in round 9	Showtime	150,000[173]
Nov 8, 2003	Antonio Tarver vs. Roy Jones Jr.	Jones Jr. wins by MD (117–111, 116–112, 114–114)	HBO	302,000[174]
May 15, 2004	Roy Jones Jr. vs. Antonio Tarver II	Tarver wins by KO in round 2	HBO	360,000[175]
Sep 18, 2004	Bernard Hopkins vs. Oscar De La Hoya	Hopkins wins by KO in round 9	HBO	1,000,000[162]
Dec 11, 2004	Vitali Klitschko vs. Danny Williams	Klitschko wins by TKO in round 8	HBO	120,000[176]
Mar 19, 2005	Érik Morales vs. Manny Pacquiao	Morales wins by UD (115–113, 115–113, 115–113)	HBO	345,000[177]
Jun 11, 2005	Mike Tyson vs. Kevin McBride	McBride wins by TKO in round 7	Showtime	250,000[178]
Jun 25, 2005	Arturo Gatti vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.	Mayweather Jr. wins by RTD in round 6	HBO	340,000[177]
Oct 1, 2005	Antonio Tarver vs. Roy Jones Jr. III	Tarver wins by UD (117–111, 116–112, 116–112)	HBO	405,000[179]
Jan 21, 2006	Manny Pacquiao vs Érik Morales II	Pacquiao wins by TKO in round 10	HBO	360,000[180]
Feb 25, 2006	Shane Mosley vs Fernando Vargas	Mosley wins by TKO in round 10	HBO	415,000[181]
Apr 8, 2006	Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Zab Judah	Mayweather Jr. wins by UD (116–112, 117–111, 119–109)	HBO	375,000[180]
May 6, 2006	Ricardo Mayorga vs. Oscar De La Hoya	De La Hoya wins by TKO in round 6	HBO	925,000[182]
May 6, 2006	Manny Pacquiao vs. Óscar Larios	Pacquiao wins by UD (117–110, 118–108, 120–106)	Top Rank	120,000[183]
Jul 15, 2006	Shane Mosley vs Fernando Vargas II	Mosley wins by TKO in round 6	HBO	350,000[181]
Aug 12, 2006	Hasim Rahman vs. Oleg Maskaev II	Maskaev wins by TKO in round 12	HBO	60,000[184]
Nov 4, 2006	Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Carlos Baldomir	Mayweather Jr. wins by UD (120–108, 120–108, 118–110)	HBO	325,000[180]
Nov 18, 2006	Manny Pacquiao vs Érik Morales III	Pacquiao wins by KO in round 3	HBO	350,000[180]
Apr 14, 2007	Manny Pacquiao vs Jorge Solís	Pacquiao wins by KO in round 8	Top Rank	150,000[185]
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[56]
Oct 10, 2007	Manny Pacquiao vs. Marco Antonio Barrera II	Pacquiao wins by UD (118–109, 118–109, 115–112)	HBO	350,000[186]
Dec 8, 2007	Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Ricky Hatton	Mayweather Jr. wins by TKO in round 10	HBO	920,000[77]
Mar 15, 2008	Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Márquez II	Pacquiao wins by SD (115–112, 114–113, 112–115)	HBO	400,000[187]
Jun 28, 2008	David Díaz vs. Manny Pacquiao	Pacquiao wins by TKO in round 9	HBO	206,000[188]
Nov 8, 2008	Joe Calzaghe vs. Roy Jones Jr.	Calzaghe wins by UD (118–109, 118–109, 118–109)	HBO	225,000[189]
Dec 6, 2008	Oscar De La Hoya vs. Manny Pacquiao	Pacquiao wins by RTD in round 8	HBO	1,250,000[56]
May 2, 2009	Manny Pacquiao vs. Ricky Hatton	Pacquiao wins by KO in round 2	HBO	850,000[75]
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[77]
Nov 14, 2009	Manny Pacquiao vs. Miguel Cotto	Pacquiao wins by TKO in round 12	HBO	1,250,000[79]
Mar 13, 2010	Manny Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey	Pacquiao wins by UD (119–109, 119–109, 120–108)	HBO	700,000[190]
Apr 3, 2010	Bernard Hopkins vs. Roy Jones Jr. II	Hopkins win by UD (118–109, 117–110, 117–110)	HBO	150,000[191]
May 1, 2010	Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Shane Mosley	Mayweather Jr. wins by UD (119–109, 118–110, 119–109)	HBO	1,400,000[56]
Nov 13, 2010	Manny Pacquiao vs. Antonio Margarito	Pacquiao wins by UD (120–108, 118–110, 119–109)	HBO	1,150,000[82]
May 7, 2011	Manny Pacquiao vs. Shane Mosley	Pacquiao wins by UD (119–108, 120–108, 120–107)	Showtime	1,340,000[84]
Sep 17, 2011	Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs Victor Ortiz	Mayweather Jr. wins by KO in round 4	HBO	1,250,000[86]
Nov 13, 2011	Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Márquez III	Pacquiao wins by MD (115–113, 114–114, 116–112)	HBO	1,400,000[88]
Dec 3, 2011	Miguel Cotto vs. Antonio Margarito II	Cotto wins by RTD in round 9	HBO	600,000[192]
May 5, 2012	Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Miguel Cotto	Mayweather Jr. wins by UD (117–111, 117–111, 118–110)	HBO	1,500,000[90]
Jun 9, 2012	Manny Pacquiao vs. Timothy Bradley	Bradley wins by SD (115–113, 115–113, 115–113)	HBO	890,000[193]
Sep 15, 2012	Sergio Martínez vs. Julio César Chávez Jr.	Martínez wins by UD (118–109, 118–109, 117–110)	HBO	475,000[194]
Dec 8, 2012	Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Márquez IV	Márquez wins by KO in round 6	HBO	1,150,000[91]
May 4, 2013	Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Robert Guerrero	Mayweather Jr. wins by UD (117–111, 117–111, 117–111)	Showtime	1,000,000[195]
Sep 14, 2013	Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Canelo Álvarez	Mayweather Jr. wins by MD (117–111, 116–112, 114–114)	Showtime	2,200,000[93]
Oct 12, 2013	Timothy Bradley vs. Juan Manuel Márquez	Bradley wins by SD (115–113, 116–112, 113–115)	HBO	375,000[196]
Nov 24, 2013	Manny Pacquiao vs. Brandon Ríos	Pacquiao wins by UD (119–109, 120–108, 118–110)	HBO	475,000[197]
Mar 8, 2014	Canelo Álvarez vs. Alfredo Angulo	Álvarez wins by TKO in Round 10	Showtime	350,000[198]
Apr 12, 2014	Manny Pacquiao vs. Timothy Bradley II	Pacquiao wins by UD (116–112, 116–112, 118–110)	HBO	800,000[199]
May 3, 2014	Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Marcos Maidana	Mayweather Jr. wins by MD (114–114, 117–111, 116–112)	Showtime	900,000[200]
Jun 7, 2014	Miguel Cotto vs. Sergio Martínez	Cotto wins by RTD in round 10	HBO	315,000[201]
Jul 12, 2014	Canelo Álvarez vs. Erislandy Lara	Álvarez wins by SD (115–113, 117–111, 113–115)	Showtime	300,000[202]
Sep 13, 2014	Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Marcos Maidana II	Mayweather Jr. wins by UD (116–111, 116–111, 115–112)	Showtime	925,000[200]
Nov 23, 2014	Manny Pacquiao vs. Chris Algieri	Pacquiao wins by UD (119–103, 119–103, 120–102)	HBO	400,000[203]
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[94]
Sep 12, 2015	Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Andre Berto	Mayweather Jr. wins by UD (120–108, 118–110, 117–111)	Showtime	400,000[204]
Oct 17, 2015	Gennady Golovkin vs. David Lemieux	Golovkin wins by TKO in round 8	HBO	150,000[205]
Nov 21, 2015	Miguel Cotto vs. Canelo Álvarez	Álvarez wins by UD (117–111, 119–109, 118–110)	HBO	900,000[206]
Apr 9, 2016	Manny Pacquiao vs. Timothy Bradley III	Pacquiao wins by UD (116–110, 116–110, 116–110)	HBO	400,000[207]
May 7, 2016	Canelo Álvarez vs. Amir Khan	Álvarez wins by KO in round 6	HBO	600,000[208]
July 23, 2016	Terence Crawford vs. Viktor Postol	Crawford wins by UD (118–107, 118–107, 117–108)	HBO	55,000[209]
Sep 17, 2016	Canelo Álvarez vs. Liam Smith	Álvarez wins by TKO in round 9	HBO	300,000[210]
Nov 5, 2016	Manny Pacquiao vs. Jessie Vargas	Pacquiao wins by UD (118–109, 118–109, 114–113)	Top Rank	300,000[211]
Nov 19, 2016	Sergey Kovalev vs. Andre Ward	Ward wins by UD (114–113, 114–113, 114–113)	HBO	165,000[212]
Mar 18, 2017	Gennady Golovkin vs. Daniel Jacobs	Golovkin wins by UD (115–112, 115–112, 114–113)	HBO	170,000[213]
May 6, 2017	Canelo Álvarez vs. Julio César Chávez Jr.	Álvarez wins by UD (120–108, 120–108, 120–108)	HBO	1,000,000[214]
Jun 17, 2017	Andre Ward vs. Sergey Kovalev II	Ward wins by TKO in round 8	HBO	130,000[215]
Aug 26, 2017	Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor	Mayweather Jr. wins by TKO in round 10	Showtime	4,300,000[216]
Sep 16, 2017	Canelo Álvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin	Split draw (118–110, 115–113, 114–114)	HBO	1,300,000[102]
Sep 15, 2018	Canelo Álvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin II	Álvarez wins by MD (115–113, 114–114, 115–113)	HBO	1,100,000[109]
Dec 1, 2018	Deontay Wilder vs. Tyson Fury	Split draw (115–111, 113–113, 112–114)	Showtime	325,000[217]
Jan 19, 2019	Manny Pacquiao vs. Adrien Broner	Pacquiao wins by UD (117–111, 116–112, 116–112)	Showtime	400,000[218]
Mar 16, 2019	Errol Spence Jr. vs. Mikey Garcia	Spence Jr. wins by UD (120–107, 120–108, 120–108)	Fox	375,000[219]
Apr 20, 2019	Terence Crawford vs. Amir Khan	Crawford wins by TKO in round 6	ESPN	150,000[220]
Jul 20, 2019	Manny Pacquiao vs. Keith Thurman	Pacquiao wins by SD (115–112, 115–112, 113–114)	Fox	500,000[221]
Sep 28, 2019	Errol Spence Jr. vs. Shawn Porter	Spence wins by SD (116–111, 116–111, 112–115)	Fox	350,000[222]
Nov 23, 2019	Deontay Wilder vs. Luis Ortiz II	Wilder wins by KO in round 7	Fox	275,000[223]
Feb 22, 2020	Deontay Wilder vs. Tyson Fury II	Fury wins by TKO in round 7	ESPN/Fox	1,200,000[114]

United Kingdom

Select boxing pay-per-view figures (mainly from Sky Box Office) between 1966 and 2018. Many of these figures are based on BARB weekly viewing data figures.[224]

   — Fights which held the UK PPV sales record

Date	Fight	Network	Buys	Source(s)	Announcers
21 May 1966	Muhammad Ali vs. Henry Cooper II	Pay TV	40,000	[225]
16 March 1996	Frank Bruno vs. Mike Tyson II	Sky Box Office	660,000	[64]	Ian Darke and Glenn McCrory
9 November 1996	Naseem Hamed vs. Remigio Molina	Sky Box Office	420,000	[64][226]	Ian Darke and Glenn McCrory
8 February 1997	Naseem Hamed vs. Tom Johnson	Sky Box Office	720,000	[64][227]	Ian Darke and Glenn McCrory
3 May 1997	Naseem Hamed vs. Billy Hardy	Sky Box Office	348,000	[64][228]	Ian Darke and Glenn McCrory
28 June 1997	Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson II	Sky Box Office	550,000	[66]	Ian Darke and Glenn McCrory
13 March 1999	Evander Holyfield vs. Lennox Lewis	Sky Box Office	400,000	[229]	Ian Darke and Glenn McCrory
29 January 2000	Mike Tyson vs. Julius Francis	Sky Box Office	500,000	[66]	Ian Darke and Glenn McCrory
19 August 2000	Naseem Hamed vs. Augie Sanchez	Sky Box Office	300,000	[230]	Adam Smith and Jim Watt
8 June 2002	Lennox Lewis vs. Mike Tyson	Sky Box Office	750,000	[70]	Ian Darke and Glenn McCrory
8 December 2007	Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Ricky Hatton	Sky Box Office	1,150,000	[231]	Ian Darke and Jim Watt
2 May 2009	Manny Pacquiao vs. Ricky Hatton	Sky Box Office	900,000	[76]	Ian Darke and Jim Watt
18 July 2009	Amir Khan vs. Andreas Kotelnik	Sky Box Office	100,000	[232]	Adam Smith and Jim Watt
7 November 2009	Nikolai Valuev vs. David Haye	Sky Box Office	469,000	[233]	Ian Darke and Jim Watt
3 April 2010	David Haye vs. John Ruiz	Sky Box Office	253,000	[234][99]	Ian Darke and Jim Watt
24 April 2010	Carl Froch vs. Mikkel Kessler	Primetime	50,000	[235]	John Rawling and Duke McKenzie
18 September 2010	Kell Brook vs. Michael Jennings	Sky Box Office	15,000	[236]	Ian Darke and Jim Watt
13 November 2010	David Haye vs. Audley Harrison	Sky Box Office	304,000	[233][99]	Ian Darke and Jim Watt
11 December 2010	Amir Khan vs. Marcos Maidana	Sky Box Office	164,000	[237]	Adam Smith and Jim Watt
16 April 2011	Amir Khan vs. Paul McCloskey	Primetime	200,000	[238][235]	Benny Ricardo and Duke McKenzie
21 May 2011	George Groves vs. James DeGale	Sky Box Office	43,000	[239]	Ian Darke and Jim Watt
2 July 2011	Wladimir Klitschko vs. David Haye	Sky Box Office	1,170,000	[240][241]	John Rawling and Jim Watt
25 May 2013	Carl Froch vs. Mikkel Kessler II	Sky Box Office	32,000	[242]	Ian Darke and Jim Watt
23 November 2013	Carl Froch vs. George Groves	Sky Box Office	47,000	[243]	Nick Halling and Jim Watt
31 May 2014	Carl Froch vs. George Groves II	Sky Box Office	355,000	[244]	Nick Halling, Jim Watt and Paulie Malignaggi
30 May 2015	Kell Brook vs. Frankie Gavin	Sky Box Office	139,000	[245]	Nick Halling, Jim Watt and Paulie Malignaggi
2 May 2015	Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao	Sky Box Office	942,000	[95][246]	Nick Halling and Jim Watt
28 November 2015	Wladimir Klitschko vs. Tyson Fury	Sky Box Office	545,000	[247][99]	Adam Smith, Glenn McCrory and Carl Froch
12 December 2015	Anthony Joshua vs. Dillian Whyte	Sky Box Office	420,000	[248][249]	Nick Halling, Jim Watt and Paulie Malignaggi
27 February 2016	Carl Frampton vs. Scott Quigg	Sky Box Office	220,000	[250][251]	Nick Halling and Jim Watt
9 April 2016	Anthony Joshua vs. Charles Martin	Sky Box Office	500,000	[248][252]	Nick Halling and Glenn McCrory
25 June 2016	Anthony Joshua vs. Dominic Breazeale	Sky Box Office	512,000	[253]	Nick Halling and Jim Watt
10 September 2016	Gennady Golovkin vs. Kell Brook	Sky Box Office	400,000	[254][255]	Adam Smith, Carl Froch and Paulie Malignaggi
10 December 2016	Anthony Joshua vs. Éric Molina	Sky Box Office	450,000	[248][256]	Adam Smith, Carl Froch and David Haye
4 February 2017	Chris Eubank Jr. vs. Renold Quinlan	ITV Box Office	86,000	[257]	Ronald McIntosh and Richie Woodhall
4 March 2017	David Haye vs. Tony Bellew	Sky Box Office	750,000	[258][99]	Adam Smith, Carl Froch and Paulie Malignaggi
29 April 2017	Anthony Joshua vs. Wladimir Klitschko	Sky Box Office	1,500,000	[98][99]	Adam Smith, Carl Froch and Deontay Wilder
27 May 2017	Kell Brook vs. Errol Spence Jr.	Sky Box Office	275,000	[259]	Adam Smith and Carl Froch
26 August 2017	Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor	Sky Box Office	1,007,000	[260]	Adam Smith, Carl Froch and Dan Hardy
28 October 2017	Anthony Joshua vs. Carlos Takam	Sky Box Office	887,000	[261]	Adam Smith, Carl Froch and Tony Bellew
31 March 2018	Anthony Joshua vs. Joseph Parker	Sky Box Office	1,457,000	[103][99]	Adam Smith and Carl Froch
5 May 2018	David Haye vs. Tony Bellew II	Sky Box Office	775,000	[262][99]	Adam Smith, Carl Froch and Paulie Malignaggi
28 July 2018	Dillian Whyte vs. Joseph Parker	Sky Box Office	474,000	[263][264]	Adam Smith, Carl Froch and Tony Bellew
22 September 2018	Anthony Joshua vs. Alexander Povetkin	Sky Box Office	1,108,000	[110][99]	Adam Smith, Carl Froch, Paulie Malignaggi and David Haye
10 November 2018	Oleksandr Usyk vs. Tony Bellew	Sky Box Office	603,000	[265]	Adam Smith, Carl Froch, Paulie Malignaggi and David Haye
1 December 2018	Deontay Wilder vs. Tyson Fury	BT Sport Box Office	450,000	[266]	John Rawling and Barry Jones
22 December 2018	Dillian Whyte vs. Dereck Chisora II	Sky Box Office	438,000	[267]	Adam Smith, Carl Froch and Anthony Joshua
1 June 2019	Anthony Joshua vs. Andy Ruiz Jr.	Sky Box Office	403,000	[268]	Adam Smith, Paulie Malignaggi and Matthew Macklin
20 July 2019	Dillian Whyte vs. Oscar Rivas	Sky Box Office	286,000	[269]	Adam Smith, Paulie Malignaggi and Matthew Macklin
31 August 2019	Vasyl Lomachenko vs. Luke Campbell	Sky Box Office	205,000	[270]	Adam Smith, Paulie Malignaggi and Matthew Macklin
26 October 2019	Josh Taylor vs. Regis Prograis	Sky Box Office	176,000	[271]	Adam Smith, Carl Froch & Matthew Macklin
9 November 2019	KSI vs. Logan Paul II	Sky Box Office	216,000	[272]	Adam Smith, Joe Weller, Ethan Payne and AnEsonGib
7 December 2019	Andy Ruiz Jr. vs. Anthony Joshua II	Sky Box Office	1,284,000	[113]	Adam Smith, Matthew Macklin and Tony Bellew

Mixed martial arts (United States)

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 or more buys on closed-circuit theatre TV in the United States.[273] At a ticket price of $10,[274] the fight grossed at least $20 million (inflation-adjusted $90 million) or more from closed-circuit theatre TV revenue in the United States.

UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship)

The highest buy rates for the UFC as of October 2018 are as follows:[275]

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 Disney and BAMTech's streaming service.

   — Fights which held the UFC PPV sales record

Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

Date Event Buy rate Revenue Oct 6, 2018 UFC 229: Khabib vs. McGregor 2,400,000[276] $180 million[277][278] Aug 20, 2016 UFC 202: Diaz vs. McGregor 2 1,650,000[279] $90 million[280][281] Jul 11, 2009 UFC 100: Lesnar vs. Mir 1,600,000[282] $82 million Mar 5, 2016 UFC 196: McGregor vs. Diaz 1,500,000[282] $80 million[283][281] Dec 12, 2015 UFC 194: Aldo vs. McGregor 1,400,000[282] $80 million[284][281] Nov 12, 2016 UFC 205: Alvarez vs. McGregor 1,300,000[285] $83 million[286][278] Jul 9, 2016 UFC 200: Tate vs. Nunes 1,200,000[287] $71 million[288][289] Jul 3, 2010 UFC 116: Lesnar vs. Carwin 1,160,000 $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[290] $60 million[291][292] Dec 30, 2006 UFC 66: Liddell vs. Ortiz 2 1,050,000 $53 million May 29, 2010 UFC 114: Rampage vs. Evans 1,050,000 $51 million[293][294] Oct 23, 2010 UFC 121: Lesnar vs. Velasquez 1,050,000 $45 million Dec 28, 2013 UFC 168: Weidman vs. Silva II 1,025,000[295] $57 million[296][297] Nov 15, 2008 UFC 91: Couture vs. Lesnar 1,010,000 $47 million Jan 8, 2020 UFC 246: McGregor vs. Cerrone 1,000,000 $65 million[298] Dec 27, 2008 UFC 92: Evans vs. Griffin 1,000,000 $48 million[299][281] Mar 16, 2013 UFC 158: St-Pierre vs. Diaz 950,000 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 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 Dec 30, 2011 UFC 141: Lesnar vs. Overeem 780,000 Mar 27, 2010 UFC 111: St-Pierre vs. Hardy 770,000

Professional wrestling (United States)

Further information: List of WWE pay-per-view 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.[300]

PPV home television

The highest buy rates for professional wrestling events on pay-per-view home television as of June 2015 are as follows:[301][302]

   — Fights which held the professional wrestling PPV sales record

No.	Date	Event	Buy rate
1	Apr 1, 2012	WrestleMania XXVIII	1,300,000[303]
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[302]
17	Mar 24, 1991	WrestleMania VII	764,000[304][305]

List of sportsmen with highest pay-per-view sales

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 combat sports such as boxing and mixed martial arts as well as sports entertainment such as professional wrestling.

Sportsman	Total sales	Closed-circuit theatre TV	PPV home television	Years	Sport(s)
Muhammad Ali	162,944,000	162,154,000[lower-alpha 2]	790,000[lower-alpha 2]	1963–1985	Professional boxing
					Mixed martial arts
					Professional wrestling
Joe Frazier	100,500,000	100,000,000[46]	500,000[14]	1965–1981	Professional boxing
George Foreman	52,000,000	50,000,000[5]	2,000,000[56][156]	1974–1993
Floyd Mayweather Jr.	29,090,000	223,000[72][96]	28,867,000[306][lower-alpha 3]	2005–2017	Professional boxing
					Professional wrestling
Manny Pacquiao	22,214,000	173,000[96]	22,041,000[lower-alpha 4]	2005–2019	Professional boxing
Triple H	20,329,000	N/A	20,329,000[lower-alpha 5]	1995–2019	Professional wrestling
Mike Tyson	19,100,000	920,000[lower-alpha 6]	18,180,000[lower-alpha 6]	1988–2005	Professional boxing
					Professional wrestling
John Cena	15,389,000	N/A	15,389,000[lower-alpha 5]	2002–2018	Professional wrestling
The Rock	14,859,000	N/A	14,859,000[lower-alpha 7]	1998–2013	Professional wrestling
The Undertaker	14,451,000	N/A	14,451,000[lower-alpha 5]	1990–2019
Oscar De La Hoya	14,140,000	50,000[72]	14,090,000[lower-alpha 8]	1995–2008	Professional boxing
Conor McGregor	13,675,000	N/A	13,675,000[lower-alpha 9][306]	2008–2018	Mixed martial arts
					Professional boxing
Evander Holyfield	12,720,000	120,000[67]	12,600,000[307]	1984–2003	Professional boxing
Anthony Joshua	11,289,000	N/A	11,289,000[lower-alpha 10]	2015–2019	Professional boxing
Shawn Michaels	10,160,000	N/A	10,160,000[lower-alpha 5]	1988–2018	Professional wrestling

See also

• Bel Air Circuit
• Conditional access
• DAZN
• 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 of TNA pay-per-view events
• List of UFC events
• List of WCW pay-per-view events
• List of WWE pay-per-view events

Notes

1. See Manny Pacquiao vs. Ricky Hatton § Pay-per-view.
2. 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. See "List of WWE pay-per-view events".
6. See Mike Tyson § Pay-per-view bouts.
7. See "Dwayne Johnson".
8. See Oscar De La Hoya § Pay-per-view bouts.
9. See Conor McGregor § UFC pay-per-view bouts.
10. See Anthony Joshua § UK pay-per-view bouts.

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