Big numbers for Pacquiao-Cotto set up megafight for Pacquiao-Mayweather

Pacquiao-Cotto does 1.25 million pay-per-view

LAS VEGAS — Manny Pacquiao is a box office hit, selling 1.25 million pay-per-views for his fight with Miguel Cotto in a performance that could set up the richest fight ever against Floyd Mayweather Jr.

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.