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Mayweather-Marquez attracts more than 1 million pay-per-view buys

By Mike James
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Floyd Mayweather has never been shy about his boxing skills or his ability to draw a crowd, and last Saturday’s bout against Juan Manuel Marquez seems to back that up.

Mayweather’s one-sided decision over Marquez at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas generated $52 million in more than 1 million pay-per-view buys, the highest-performing ppv event this year and only the fifth nonheavyweight fight to go over the million mark.

Ross Greenburg, HBO Sports president, told the Associated Press that even he was surprised by the number.

Mayweather, it seems, has lost nothing after his 21-month layoff, and Saturday’s results -- in the ring and in the viewership -- can only raise already lofty expectations for a possible super-fight between Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao.

-- Mike James

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Mike James

Mike James is a former Sports editor of the Los Angeles Times. A native of suburban Washington, D.C., James came to The Times from the Hartford Courant in 1985, took a hiatus from the print world in 2000 to work as coordinating producer at FoxSports.com and managing editor of the nightly news report on Fox Sports Net. He returned to The Times in 2002 and, after three years as deputy Sports editor, became Sports editor in 2009.

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