Will exhibition break the Floyd Mayweather top ten PPV sales of all time?
June 9th, 2021  Sean Michael Ham  Early reports from Showtimes Floyd Mayweather exhibition Pay Per View sales placed the comeback event in the 600,000 to 650,000 bracket this week. As WBN reported on Tuesday, those tentative suggestions are unheard of numbers for Mayweather during the vast majority of his recent career. Adding streaming purchases to the total, Mayweather may well be close to or just above the magical one million  if hes lucky. But if Floyd should fail to topple his 1,060,000 buys for the clash with Juan Manuel Marquez in 2009, the effort would be counted as one of the former pound-for-pound kings worst PPV headliners. In 2007, Mayweather faced Zab Judah in a fiery encounter that maxed out at 375,000 on HBO. Since then, Mayweather has only failed to hit one million three times. That trio all took place in Mayweathers last four fights but either side of a fantastic haul against rival Manny Pacquiao. In 2015, Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao sold an unbelievable world record of 4.6m, 5.7m if you take in sales from every corner of the globe. Should his exhibition hit the hundreds of thousands, it would struggle to break Floyds all-time top ten Pay Per Views. This scenario could happen despite pre-event predictions in a Mayweather Promotions/Fanmio press release in December that the special exhibition could beat the Pacquiao fight. Sadly, they seem to be around 3.5 million off that at the moment. Whatever happens from here on in, this is not as successful as Floyd Mayweather and his team had hoped. They risked their reputation on this crossover and wanted huge numbers. Interest on fight night with a mass of empty seats and now poor PPV sales into the bargain could be a lesson to any other former legends who want to take on non-sportspeople in a sporting event. Think again when it comes to facing YouTuber novices. FLOYD MAYWEATHER PPV SALES  ALL-TIME TOP TEN  Manny Pacquiao 4.6m  2015 Conor McGregor 4.4m  2017 Oscar De La Hoya  2007 Canelo Alvarez 2.2m  2013 Miguel Cotto 1.5m  2012 Shane Mosley 1.4m  2010 Victor Ortiz 1.25m  2011 Juan Manuel Marquez 1.06m  2010 Robert Guerrero 1m  2013 Hatton/Maidana II 925,000  2007/2014  Phil Jay is the Editor of WBN. An Auxiliary member of the Boxing Writers Association of America since 2018. And a member of the Sports Journalists Association. Follow on Twitter @PhilJWBN.