HBO is reporting that the May 1 pay-per-view between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Shane Mosley generated 1.4 million buys. The fight brought in $78.3 million in television revenue.
The gross revenue for the Mayweather-Mosley PPV places it second all-time amongst boxing pay-per-views and ties it for second all-time in terms of buyrate, with De La Hoya-Trinidad. The boxing PPV leader is still De La Hoya-Mayweather which generated 2.44 million buys for a gross revenue of $134.4 million.