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Mayweather Vs. Pacquiao: First PPV Numbers Are Jaw-Dropping — Floyd Could Pocket $250 Million
D GI never bought a Mayweather fight before and I never will again
The Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao megafight last Saturday was projected to break all records for pay-per-view sales — but if the early indicators coming in a week later are accurate, those early predictions may have been on the conservative side.
According to numbers revealed by Yahoo! Sports this week, the number of Mayweather vs. Pacquiao PPV buys is already closing in on the record set in 2007 by Mayweather’s fight against Oscar De La Hoya — with more than 60 percent of the numbers still unreported.
The only numbers reported so far come from satellite networks DirecTV and Dish Network, as well as AT&T u-Verse and Verizon FIOS services. But cable companies such as Comcast and Time Warner have yet to report their numbers — and cable companies generally account for roughly 60 percent of revenue from pay-per-view boxing matches.
From just the four non-cable services reporting numbers, however, Mayweather vs. Pacquiao has already accumulated 2.25 million PPV buys.
Those numbers alone already make the fight the second-highest selling pay-per-view of all time, topping Mayweather’s 2013 fight against Mexican star Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, which sold 2.2 million. The number is also just short of the 2.48 million buys for Mayweather vs. De la Hoya.
More importantly, assuming that cable services will count for their usual percentages, the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao fight will end up selling a truly astonishing 5.65 million pay per views.
That number would be 895,000 more than the previous top two PPV sellers combined. To put that in perspective, a fight that sells 895,000 pay-per-views would become one of the top 40 PPV fights ever.
If the early numbers hold up, Floyd Mayweather will pocket an incredible $250 million for the single fight, with that number potentially rising as high as $275 million, according to figures compiled by the Business Insider financial news site.
As for the fight’s clear loser, Manny Pacquiao, in the negotiations for the fight, only “settled” for 40 percent of the fighters’ combined purse. That will leave Pacquiao with a paycheck for the May 2 fight of at least $170 million, and possibly as much as $190 million.
Pacquiao’s current net worth is a reported $175 million, meaning that by taking part in the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao fight, he essentially doubled his wealth. Of course, after taxes and payments to his trainer and staff, Pacquiao won’t take home quite that much.
Floyd Mayweather’s reported net worth before his payday for his fight with Manny Pacquiao was $380 million.
[Image: Jamie Squire/Getty Images]
Mayweather Vs. Pacquiao: First PPV Numbers Are Jaw-Dropping — Floyd Could Pocket $250 Million is an article from: The Inquisitr News
You Can Now Order Takeout Directly From Google Search Results
Because ordering food already seemed too difficult, Google has decided to add a new tool to its search system which allows you to order takeout from restaurants straight from a page of results.
Yes and But In the Wrong Order
D GThe SPLC is a joke and their main spokesperson looks like a living abortion
Last week in Garland, TX, a lady named Pamela Geller sponsored an event about Islam, a component of which included drawing cartoons of the prophet Mohammed. While muslims in prior centuries painted Mohammed and some muslims still think it is okay to draw Mohammed, most muslims around the world condemn the drawing of any image purporting to be the likeness of Mohammed.
Though not technically the winner, by wide acclimation the winning drawing was the chalk outlines that stood in for the bodies of the two Islamic terrorists who tried to shoot up the place. ISIS did come to Texas, but they could not take it. A security guard was wounded, but the bad guys died. A side benefit of Pamela Geller’s event is that two would be jihadists who no doubt would have tried to kill many more people later met their deaths without taking a single life last week.
Amazingly, the American media and much of the American left spent vastly more time attacking Pamela Geller than the jihadists who tried to kill her. Echoing Islamic radicals, members of the press whose careers depend on the first amendment now insist there be restrictions on the first amendment.
More specifically, when Catholics protested a satanic black mass in Massachusetts, the Boston Globe’s editorialists wrote that the Catholics just needed to get over it and not let themselves be trolled. When Rudy Giuliani attempted to shut down an art exhibit of the Virgin Mary painted in dung, the New York Times extolled the virtues of free speech and creativity. Now, while advertising tickets to the “Book of Mormon” play, the New York Times is running editorials attacking Pamela Geller and demanding respect for Islam.
CNN’s Chris Cuomo, who never misses an opportunity to show how dumb he is, took to Twitter to claim “hate speech” has no protections under the First Amendment. Cuomo, in addition to being Mario Cuomo’s son, which is his chief and only real claim to advancement in society, is a lawyer. Luckily for America, the United States Supreme Court disagrees with Cuomo.
In 1992, the Court held that burning a cross in a black family’s yard could be prosecuted, but not as hate speech because, unlike what Cuomo claimed, hate speech is still speech and therefore protected under the first amendment. In 2011, the Court held that the Westboro Baptist Church could protest military funerals. Again, they may be offensive, but their speech is protected.
To the American media, burning a cross in a black family’s yard is free speech, protesting a military funeral is free speech, but saying homosexuality is a sin in the Bible should force re-education and drawing Mohammed should get you thrown in jail. In other words, the media has grown to the point of only backing the speech the left agrees with.
The media claims have all been of the vein of “yes, I support free speech, but there should be restrictions on people like Pamela Geller.” Some leftist actually tweeted that surely the founding fathers did not contemplate Pamela Geller when they drafted the first amendment. Someone replied back that surely the founding fathers did not contemplate Islam when they drafted the first amendment.
The “yes we support free speech but Pamela Geller is a terrible person” arguments of the press get the “yes” and the “but” reversed. The press may think Pamela Geller is a terrible human being. You may very well think that she was needlessly provocative. But, and this is where the “but” should be, we have freedom of speech in this country and we should not curtail it because one small group cannot handle it.
Pamela Geller may not be the face the right wants to put forward on this issue, but she has every right to exercise her first amendment rights. A drawing is not an inducement to fight. It is a drawing. Were it of Jesus being sexually abused, the media attacking Geller would demand we put it in a museum. The American media really does not care about Pamela Geller. Rather, the media voices denouncing her are moral cowards scared they might be next.
To find out more about Erick Erickson and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.
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Windows 10 will be the last version of Windows
D GXP was supposed to be the last version
Microsoft runs out of fingers
Software giant Microsoft has given up on having any more versions of Windows. If you don't like Windows 10 you are stuck with it.
According to Jerry Nixon, a Microsoft Developer Evangelist Microsoft's going to change pretty much everything about its Windows and it is not going to bother having another version.
Instead Redmond is going to switch to a continuous update process rather than a monthly cycle and change its approach to new releases.
Jerry Nixon, a Microsoft Developer Evangelist, said at the Ignite conference in Chicago that Windows 10 "is the last version of Windows, so we're always working on Windows 10."
So in other words as large updates will become a top priority for Microsoft, the company will also change the naming system for Windows, so instead of Windows X (where X is a number), the new operating system would be simply called Windows.
In fact saying that Windows 10 will be the last version of Windows is only half true. In fact, Microsoft will start working on large updates instead of stand-alone Windows releases. So instead of a cunning plan that brought us new versions of Windows every three years, to a simpler one that's likely to bring big updates every two months.
What's more, security and feature updates will be shipped when they're ready, so Windows users will always be up to date with the latest goodies developed by the company, without the need to wait for a specific rollout based on a pre-defined schedule.
While this might be ok for consumers we suspect that if there are any really major updates, they are going to have corporate IT managers tearing their hair and stamping on their rabbit.
What it does mean is that all devices will be running Windows, including phones, tablets, HoloLens, and PCs. Windows will become the core of everything. Well everything that is not powered by Android, Linux and that comedy operating system from Apple.
(217): Just had my butthole waxed....
This Image Shows Just How Much Electron Microscopes Have Improved
Cryo-electron microscopes are used to understand the microscopic work in exquisite detail—but until now, they’ve struggled to capture images at the atomic and molecular level. That’s changing.
News anchor wishes everyone a great 'dry hump day' on live TV
Amy Andrews is having a terrible dry hump day
The Fox 2 Detroit anchor meant "dry" in reference to the weather — and happened to pair it (unfortunately) alongside the phrase "hump day" (a.k.a. Wednesday). She didn't mean the other thing
The slip-up happened during the station's morning news broadcast. When your co-anchor has an embarrassing moment on live TV, you can either be professional and sit silently until the moment passes, or you can loudly exclaim, "Oh!" You'll get to see both reactions
Perhaps it's best if we just start calling it "Wednesday" from now on.
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