The sport of boxing kicked off 2023 with a delight to the fans when Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis took on Hector Louis Garcia on January 9. In that fight, ‘Tank’ dominated Garcia and was able to get a victory with a TKO in the Capital One Arena, Washington DC. But this time, the bout has made headlines for various other reasons.
However, a new post went viral today, and it made fans go crazy when leading boxing journalist, Dan Rafael shared some insights on the PPV statistics of Davis vs. Garcia. Meanwhile, the post was reshared by Leonard Ellerbe, who is the CEO of Davis’ previous promoter, Floyd Mayweather promotions. After the numbers were out and it was huge, fans started mocking Ellerbe as Davis is no more a member of Mayweather promotions.
Gervonta Davis vs Hector Louis Garcia crosses 200k Showtime PPV
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In the post, Dan Rafael shared that, after everything was tallied and counted it crossed 200K PPV buys, which earned a huge revenue for the event. He wrote in the tweet, “Sources: @Gervontaa-Hector Luis Garcia @ShowtimeBoxing PPV tops 200k buys. Read my story, which has numbers for all of Tank’s PPVs, #DavisGarcia @StephenEspinoza @mabramson13 @DeBlaz @AlBernstein@JimGrayOfficial.”
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LOS ANGELES, CA – FEBRUARY 08: Gervonta Davis weighs in for his WBA Super Featherweight Championship fight against Hugo Ruiz (not pictured) at the The Westin Los Angeles Airport hotel on February 8, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images)
As per Dan Rafael, Davis vs. Garcia PPV earned very well. Even After being an underdog, Hector Louis Garcia fought valiantly, and this bout earned 215,000 PPV buys. In total, it earned more than $15 million. It is considered huge, for such a showdown. After that, the post was reshared by Ellerbe, with some power emojis.
What do Fans have to say about the post?
Fans ripped apart Ellerbe and some also sarcastically criticized him. Let’s see what they think of the photo.
Always like @Gervontaa PPV's they keep putting him in Competitive fights, the opponents are Good, Solid fighters and have their moments, a few times Tank was Losing (In My Opinion) but that power he has is the Game Changer, I feel it is Money well spent to buy his PPV's
— doug (@d116a5) January 20, 2023
I believe it when showtime says it stop lying like those are great ppv numbers even you know that’s crap
— Adrian,reyna (@Adrianr73201606) January 20, 2023
But you lost Tank cause you refuse to pay him? 🤔
— Ferball (@ferball83) January 20, 2023
Means it generated 20 million has any of the pbc haters fav lightweight even sniffed close to that haha 😂
— Woodface🪵 (@ibehere1) January 19, 2023
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Nice but we should want to move away from PPV business model. Congratulations to Tank and the team. Well done and I read the gate was crazy as well.
— DUBBOW (@dubbow2) January 20, 2023
Meanwhile, Gervonta Davis is currently looking at the big game which is scheduled to happen in April. He will take on Ryan Garcia as his next opponent in the Tank-Garcia fight. However, there are tumultuous situations as some reports claimed that they still have not reached a final decision.
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