Nearly five months after one of the biggest fights in combat sports history we’re still finding ways to argue about it. And by we, I mostly mean some of the principal players involved, the guys who went home with all the money in the end, which is part of what makes this really bizarre. It started, hilariously enough, with a press release . Last month Showtime put out an official release that pegged sales for the Floyd Mayweather – Conor McGregor fight at 4.3 million pay-per-view buys in North America. That number, the release noted, “nearly (doubled) the 2.48 million buys for Oscar De La Hoya vs. Mayweather in 2007.” In other words, it was an incredibly successful fight, at least in commercial terms.
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