De La Hoya Draws Well
Oscar De La Hoya’s fight with Ricardo Mayorga on Saturday at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, televised by HBO Pay Per View, generated 865,000 buys and $43.8 million in revenue, HBO said.
A pay-per-view fight has not done as well since De La Hoya last fought 20 months ago. His September 2004 bout with Bernard Hopkins generated 1 million buys and $56 million.
De La Hoya, 33, has been a participant in the top five most-viewed non-heavyweight pay-per-view fights. The record is 1.4 million buys for De La Hoya-Felix Trinidad in September 1999. No. 2 is the September 2003 rematch with Shane Mosley with 950,000 buys. Next is the 935,000 buys for the Fernando Vargas fight in September 2002.
De La Hoya, who was guaranteed $8 million for the fight, received a percentage of the buys over 600,000, which brought his share of the purse to more than $20 million, sources said.
The fight, in which De La Hoya stopped Mayorga in the sixth round, will be replayed on HBO on Saturday at 6:45 p.m. It will be shown with a live welterweight title fight between champion Luis Collazo of Brooklyn and Ricky Hatton of Britain.
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