Quote Originally Posted by Beanflicker View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Master View Post
Which European fighters have achieved that over in the states Naz, Hatton and maybe Joe Calzhage.
They never had mainstream appeal in the States.

Naz was on the brink but got whipped by MAB and put on 100 pounds.
Naz had a six-fight $12 million deal with HBO, his American debut with Kevin Kelley, packing out Madison Square Garden, broke the all-time gate record for a featherweight fight, he ended his USA career at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on PPV against a fighter that had never previously been on PPV. It did 310,000 buys.

Barrera-Morales II - 290,000 buys.
Barrera-Morales III - 300,000 buys.
Barrera-Marquez - 225,000 buys.

Even with the popularity Barrera got from beating Naz, and facing genuine great American based Mexican fighters, the PPV numbers still came up short of the Naz fight. Naz was the A-side.

Naz = US "star." Fact.