Originally <a href='http://www.sportsbookreview.com/forum/showthread.php?p=23120987'>posted</a> on 12/03/2014:

Quote Originally Posted by Keyboard Warrior View Post
Uh why? Mayweather did 800-900k last time. Economics of a PPV on US soil in Las Vegas are very different than a PPV in Asia.


Look at every foreign hosted PPV. They're down significantly.


The marketing and logistics are completely different when the PPV audience is mainly North American based and the host city is somewhere else.
What you're saying applies in a general sense, but is irrelevant to Pacquiao. He just did 500Kish buys against Rios of all people in the very same venue in Macau. Bradley/Pac II did less buys than the first one, and that shouldn't happen with a star who was as big as Pacquiao, rematching the guy who beat him. His star power is significantly declining, and it gets smaller the fewer feasible opponents he has. Mayweather can sell pretty much anything, but Pacquiao needs him for a significant (by their standards) payday. That's why.