Showtime: Mayweather-McGregor nearing record PPV numbers

"The Money Fight" appears to have been appropriately named after all.

Last Saturday's superfight between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor is "tracking in the mid-to-high 4 million pay-per view buys," Showtime exec Stephen Espinoza told Lance Pugmire of the LA Times on Friday.

The final numbers are reportedly expected to be confirmed by next week.

Espinoza's prognosis puts the fight in direct competition with Mayweather's 2015 bout with Manny Pacquiao, which drew a combat sports record buyrate of 4.6 million pay-per-views and generated $600 million in revenue - a figure "The Money Fight" is also expected to surpass, Pugmire reports.

Mayweather earned a guaranteed fight purse of $100 million for the bout he won by 10th-round TKO, while McGregor earned $30 million, although sponsorships and a take of the pay-per-view proceeds will increase both of their payouts significantly.