1.0 link 150481 <![CDATA[Oscar De La Hoya Pay-Per-View's $700M Golden Boy]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/12/oscar-de-la-hoya-pay-per_n_150481.html If Oscar De La Hoya retires, as he should, he will leave having created his own pay-per-view economy. Counting his pummeling by Manny Pacquiao on Saturday night, De La Hoya's 19 pay-per-view bouts totaled $696.4 million in gross revenues.

Before De La Hoya, Mike Tyson dominated pay-per-view and could still attract one million in buys (1.6 million against Peter McNeeley!) by living off his past ferocity.

Boxing showcases its putatively best fights to the smallest audience, on pay-per-view, a model followed by...

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