WBA welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao connects with a punch on Adrien Broner during their title fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019. Pacquiao retained his title with a unanimous-decision win.
Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019 | 12:21 p.m.
The 11,410 live gate tickets sale of Manny Pacquiao's fight against Adrien Broner Jan. 19 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas amounted to $6 million as reported by the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC).
"I wasn't surprise about the numbers. I always do believe that he is going to do good numbers at any given date," International matchmaker Sean Gibbons told The Manila Times.
"His gate with Jessie Vargas was half of this basically. This is his first fight back. It is better than good. It is the testament to the senator whoever he is or wherever he is," Gibbons added.
Pacquiao successfully defended his World Boxing Association welterweight belt against Broner via unanimous decision victory.
Pacquiao's November 2016 fight with Jessie Vargas wherein he won by unanimous decision yielded $3.019 million from the 13,103 tickets sold.
Pacquiao was then under Bob Arum's Top Rank Promotion. The Filipino ring icon is now under the Premier Boxing Champions of Al Haymon.
"I would say the gate that Senator Manny Pacquiao and Adrien Broner did is right up there with some of the biggest gates that Manny did in his prime and heyday, doing the gate over six million there is only few fighters that do that maybe Floyd [Mayweather Jr.] and Canelo [Alvarez] when they fought."
"But those numbers are as good as anybody in the game and it shows you that people want to see Senator Manny Pacquiao," said Gibbons.
Yahoo Sports columnist Kevin Iole wrote last week that the Pacquiao-Broner fight registered 400,000 pay-per-view buys. It was higher than the 300,000 registered in his fight against Vargas based on numerous reports.
The 400,000 buys is expected to equate to $30 million. The 2015 mega bout against Floyd Mayweather Jr. remains the highest for Pacquiao in terms of pay-per-view buys with a yield of 4.6 million.
Pacquiao, in his bout against Broner, was guaranteed to receive $10 million from the pay-per-view earnings. Pacquiao also got another $10 million from the fight purse.
"They (NSAC) collect all the box office receipts along with MGM and they report it correctly," said Gibbons, who is currently in the country.
The fight's gate receipts report was first posted first on Tuesday in boxingscene.com and fightnews.com.
