Pacquiao-Cotto drew 1.25 million PPV buys

By foxsports
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The fight not only made the top 10 of best-selling pay-per-view boxing events, but beat the 1.05 million figure notched by Mayweather for his September comeback fight against Juan Manuel Marquez.

HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg said Friday the fight grossed $70 million, with 650,000 buys coming from cable television homes and 600,000 from satellite television viewers. It was helped by a record 110,000 buys from Puerto Rico, Cotto's home.

The biggest PPV fight was in 2007 — Mayweather and Oscar De La Hoya, which was sold to 2.4 million homes.