Quote Originally Posted by Bilbo
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Quote Originally Posted by Bilbo
I stopped reading when the OP compared Miguel Cotto to Oktay Urkal in terms of earning potential.


Seriously you must surely know that a Cotto Mayweather fight is at least a 1 million buy job right?

I'd bet it would probably take over 1.5 million buys which is more than I'd expect a rematch with Oscar to make in all honesty.

Right now the biggest money maker out there for Floyd is Miguel Cotto.

If/when Cotto has beaten Williams or Margarito Floyd will come out of semi retirement to face him and the fight would likely rival the first De La Hoya fight for PPV buys.

Cotto vs Mayweather is the fight that most boxing fans want to see. Floyd is merely being smart in waiting for Cotto's star to rise a little bit higher before putting pen to paper in what will probably be his career biggest payday.
I don't agree at all.

Oscar-Floyd 2 may not be the fight that hardcore boxing fans want to see, but I guarantee you that that fight would blow away Floyd-Cotto in terms of PPVs. Oscar is still Oscar.

Floyd would make more money to fight Oscar than to fight Cotto, and it's really not even close. You're either severely underrating Oscar's popularity, severely overrating Cotto's popularity.... or both.
Well if you read my post correctly I said that 'if/when Cotto has beaten Margarito or Williams' a Floyd fight would rival Mayweather De La Hoya.

If they fought right now I believe it would be a 1+ million PPV show. If Floyd can get 850,000 buys for fighting Hatton a fight with Cotto would draw 1 million.

And Cotto is becoming more popular all the time. If he can add say the winner of Williams/Margarito to his resume he stamps himself as unquestionably the number 1 contender to Floyd's crown and THAT fight WOULD be bigger than a Mayweather De La Hoya rematch in my opinion.
And you're still wrong.

A mega-PPV like Oscar-Floyd doesn't get 2.4 million PPV buys by appealing to hardcore boxing fans. You get all those PPVs by appealing to the general public.

Hardcore boxing fans (like the people on this board) like Miguel Cotto and want to see him fight Floyd. The general public doesn't have a clue who Miguel Cotto is. And if Cotto beats Margarito or Williams, that doesn't change anything, because the general public doesn't know who Antonio Margarito or Paul Williams are either. Miguel Cotto could beat every top welterweight besides Mayweather, and Cotto still wouldn't have anywhere near the name-recogniton and visibility that Oscar has. That's a fact.

I've said a ton of times here that Floyd-Cotto is far and away the fight that I want to see most. I'd love to see that fight. But I'm not the average sports fan, I'm a hardcore boxing fan. Cotto appeals to the hardcore fans, not to the general public. Cotto is a big draw in Puerto Rico and New York City, that's it. Look at Cotto-Judah, which set the all-time record for attendance at Madison Sqaure Garden. If that fight had been in Vegas, LA, or Chicago, the arena would have been half-empty. Cotto-Mosley didn't even sell out in New York, and it would have sold a lot fewer tickets in any other city. Oscar can sell out an arena anywhere in the world.

A Floyd-Cotto fight will never be as big of a moneymaker as a Floyd-Oscar rematch would be. Never.