 By Steve Kim, MaxBoxing (Oct 29, 2011) Doghouse Boxing (Photo ©
Will Hart / HBO - PPV) Photo: Mayweather lands punch on Ortiz
After much delay and conjecture, Golden Boy and Mayweather
Promotions announced on Friday morning that the card featuring
Floyd Mayweather and Victor Ortiz tallied 1.25 million purchases
for a gross of $78.4 million. This is the second most lucrative
non-heavyweight pay-per-view event behind Mayweather - Oscar De
La Hoya (which totaled $136.8 million back in 2007). What was
interesting is that unlike almost all of these announcements,
there was not a single mention of HBO Pay-Per-View (which
distributed this card) or any comments from Mark Taffet from HBO
PPV in this release. None of the pertinent HBO contacts were
listed at the bottom of the release either. Let's just say that
this raised the eyebrows of everyone in boxing and that there
are some interesting theories as to why they were left out (I
think you can figure out what it is). One boxing insider told me
flatly, “Without the