Mayweather Vs Ortiz Supposedly 1.2 mill Buys

[JT Rock]

You are so Bias it's ridiculous..

I will trust a respected Boxing Journalist over you.. who by the way consistently slags Floyd off. Dan Raphael would not have posted that if it wasn't close.

I don't always agree on Dans biased opinions but his facts and knowledge of the business nuances is tops in the industry thats why I read his stuff.

Do you know any facts about the subject? Or are you a 2 bit PAC fan who can't stand that Floyd is the bigger draw?
I will also say that Floyd has done better numbers with Marquez than
PAC will next month.

[Gandalf]

I couldn't care less about the numbers, but anyone who paid for that should feel seriously ripped off. 50 bucks plus for a couple of rounds and a sucker punch?

It makes a mockery of PPV and someone like Floyd should realise that he is there to satiate an audience and not to indulge in his school yard bully mentality. Sure, it's not nice to have some guy kissing you, but you are on show and people expect more.

Many will think twice before paying next time out and so they should.

[Gandalf]

I have a feeling that all the Floyd huggers will take umbrage with my proclamation and argue that headbutts shouldn't be allowed either. However, when the ref has taken a point I think that you should rise above it. The ref did his job and Floyd lost his cool....because of that Floyd loses a lot of brownie points. Obviously Ortiz should find a new job in a male brothel, but nobody ever really regarded Ortiz as anything in the first place. He is kind of secondary to the argument.

[Master]

I do not believe these figures and believe they are massaged to make out that Floyd is bigger than he really is.

[JT Rock]

I do not believe these figures and believe they are massaged to make out that Floyd is bigger than he really is.

Yes complete conspiracy, Dan Raphael a Mayweather hater puts his credibility and journalistic neck on the line for this cover up.

Not sure it is 1.2 million but if it's a million or close thats not bad seeing Ortiz is an unknown aside from hardcore fans. So they are tuning into seeing Mayweather

[InTheNeutralCorner]

You are so Bias it's ridiculous..

I will trust a respected Boxing Journalist over you.. who by the way consistently slags Floyd off. Dan Raphael would not have posted that if it wasn't close.

I don't always agree on Dans biased opinions but his facts and knowledge of the business nuances is tops in the industry thats why I read his stuff.

Do you know any facts about the subject? Or are you a 2 bit PAC fan who can't stand that Floyd is the bigger draw?
I will also say that Floyd has done better numbers with Marquez than
PAC will next month.

Why don't you discredit the merits of my counter arguments instead of just labeling me as bias? Have you ran out of logical explanations? If you will notice, my comments are in response to the issues that were brought up. I posted a different perspective on the fight being possibly 850,000 mil and provided the link to show that I did not make that up. And I did not present that as fact. Some of the other opinions that I expressed are the same as that of the posters who commented in this thread.

I have always said that Mayweather do have higher PPV numbers than Pacquiao. But I believe that Mayweather being American and those fights being on American soil may have contributed to that. However, there is a limit to what the fans and the general public would be willing to tolerate. Floyd's PPV numbers, and that of Manny as well, are bound to go down if they don't fight each other. And Mayweather pulling that stunt on Ortiz isn't going to help his PPV numbers if it's not Pacquiao or Martinez that he's fighting.