De La Hoya, Pacquiao Punches 1.25 Mil. Buys For HBO

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In what now stands as the year’s highest performing pay-per-view event, HBO Sports notched 1.25 million buys with its Dec. 6 presentation of the welterweight bout between Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao.

At a going rate of $54.95 per order, the De La Hoya-Pacquiao fight brought in around $68.7 million.

While Saturday’s fight notched a little more than half the all-time PPV record––the De La Hoya-Floyd Mayweather tilt of May 5, 2007, landed 2.4 million buys and $134.4

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