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Chris Mannix is a Staff Writer for Sports Illustrated. He writes the Inside the NBA and Inside Boxing column for SI and is a regular contributor to SI.com.

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  • 11:43 AM ET  11.20
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The
Pacquiao-Cotto numbers are in, and they are big. Here are the figures, along
with some relevant information from HBO.- 1.25 million buys



- $70 million pay-per-view
revenue



- 650,000 cable buys



- 600,000 satellite and
telco buys



- figures include a record
110,000 buys in Puerto Rico



- along with September 19
Mayweather-Marquez fight which generated 1,050,000 buys, represents the first
time HBO Pay-Per-View has ever recorded back-to-back fights exceeding 1 million
buys and represents the first time since 1999 that there have been two fights
over 1 million buys in same year…
  • 07:15 PM ET  11.16
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A few minutes ago I received this press release from Floyd Mayweather Jr.:
"Manny Pacquiao is the fighter and every time someone asks him if he wants to fight me, he says it is up to his promoter, he's going to take a vacation, whatever the answer is. I have yet to hear him actually say, 'yes I want to fight Mayweather.' We are the fighters and if one fighter is talking about fighting another fighter, then they should just come out and say it. Manny Pacquiao doesn't say anything directly about fighting me because he might just know it's not a fight he can win."
"He said during…
  • 08:26 PM ET  10.21
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Kelly Pavlik's ongoing problems with a staph infection on his left hand left Paul Williams with a choice: reschedule the middleweight championship fight for a second time, or move on.
Williams has elected to move on. 
Williams' promoter, Dan Goossen, told SI.com on Wednesday night that he will keep the Dec. 5 date and find another opponent for Williams. HBO Vice President Mark Taffet confirmed that -- assuming the two sides could come to an agreement on an acceptable opponent -- the fight would still be broadcast on HBO. 
"I could sit here and say a lot of things that…

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