Tyson Fury vs. Oleksandr Usyk Reported PPV Buys Revealed

by Christina S. Brown
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Within the heavyweight division’s most essential combat for 1 / 4 of a decade, Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk travelled to Riyadh and put their respective world titles on the road to crown a primary undisputed four-belt champion of the division. Now, we have now a gauge on how effectively the historic occasion carried out, because the variety of pay-per-view buys have been revealed.

It was Oleksandr Usyk who fought by way of the fireplace to realize the coveted purpose and etch his identify into the historical past books with a legendary win over ‘The Gypsy King’ regardless of a close to 40lb weight differential, dropping and virtually stopping Fury within the ninth-round earlier than urgent the proverbial accelerator and banking the late rounds to edge out a well-known split-decision win.

Of the entire latest blockbuster occasions delivered to us by Turki Al-Alshikh and staged in Saudi Arabia, Fury-Usyk was undeniably the most important, eclipsing the hype that surrounded the ‘The Battle of the Baddest’, ‘Day of Reckoning’ and ‘Knockout Chaos’ playing cards.

ESPN has now reported the variety of pay-per-view buys that had been racked up from the legendary conflict, that additionally featured a stacked undercard with two additional world title bouts happening earlier than the main-event.

“In response to sources, Usyk-Fury generated upward of $50 million in pay-per-view income with 1.5-million-plus PPV buys (the overwhelming majority from the U.Okay., the place Fury is a megastar). The occasion additionally made $40 million in sponsorship and one other $3 million-plus in ticket gross sales. All in — manufacturing, fighter purses, leisure, journey, and so on. — the occasion value within the neighbourhood of $120 million.”

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