Do the casual fan actually enjoyed the first one?
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Do the casual fan actually enjoyed the first one?
It will sell more than any fight in boxing which wouldn't involve DLH.
Th's the hype that goes with it. Oscar's nice guy act and Floyd's badass act(both are fake,Floyd's actually not that bad a dude),the 24/7,the advertising everywhere,the media tours. Of course the average fan is going to buy it. They are also going to use these 2 angles:
Floyd Senior will be back to use the whole father v son angle and he trained Floyd and made him,he can break him.
And the fact that Oscar will have had a warm up fight then v Forbes,most likely.He will win and proclaim he is back to his best and the average fan will eat it up.
All these things will add together to make a fight which (unfortunately) will be as big as the first fight imo. Us hardcore fans who love boxing but are not here to be made fools out of/not rich don't account for a big % of the fans out there so unfortunately,this fight will still be a resounding success. :-\
This is what people don't get -- it's irrelevant. The casual fan doesn't tune in because they love watching great fights, they tune in because it's a big event. Otherwise they wouldn't be casual fans, they'd be hardcore fans. They weren't comparing Floyd-Oscar to Marquez-Vazquez because they don't even know that either Marquez or Vazquez exist.Quote:
Originally Posted by Puya
If you asked the average American to name an active boxer, Oscar and Floyd would be the only two names that almost everyone knows. That drives media attention, and we're talking mainstream media, not boxingtalk.com -- newspapers, magazines, television -- which in turn drives the PPV numbers. For example, Sports Illustrated had about three paragraphs on boxing in their year-end issue. One was about Floyd, one was about Oscar, and the other was about the heavyweight division being boring.
Maybe there'll be some drop-off from the first fight, but these guys are smart promoters and they are still the biggest names in the sport. It'll do at least a million-five and it wouldn't surprise me at all to see it near, or top two.