One Last Floyd v Gregory Thread

[Master]

Gate numbers are reportedly in for Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor, and while the final total is enormous, it’s not a record-breaker.

Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Conor McGregor was billed as having the potential to break both the gate and pay-per-view revenue records previously set by Mayweather’s May 2015 win over Manny Pacquiao. While pay-per-view buys are trending in the general direction of the 4.6 million buys (North America only) for Mayweather vs. Pacquiao, the live gate apparently wasn’t close.

Jed I. Goodman received the gross gate and ticket sales information from the Nevada Athletic Commission on Tuesday.

$55.4 million is well off from the $72,198,500 for Mayweather vs. Pacquiao, and definitely nowhere near the claims made by Dana White that the gate was at $70 million just a couple of days prior to the mega-fight. Post-fight, Mayweather was qouted as saying it'd eclipse $80 million. In the lead-up to the bout, one of the storylines was the slow-moving ticket sales, unsurprisingly caused by the outrageously expensive pricing of the seats at the T-Mobile Arena. There were plenty of empty seats even for the main event.

Make no mistake about it though, this is still the second-largest gate of all-time by a considerable distance. It’s more than triple the best live gate in UFC history, UFC 205: Alvarez vs. McGregor, and $35 million higher than Mayweather vs. Canelo Alvarez in 2013. When all is said and done, Mayweather will hold the top four gates in the history of Nevada boxing events, although that may by short-lived if Gennady Golovkin vs. Canelo Alvarez manages to break $30 million.

As for McGregor, he has the distinct honor of headlining the biggest-selling UFC pay-per-view of all-time (the UFC 202 rematch with Nate Diaz), four of the five top gates in Nevada, the number one gate in UFC history, and now the number two gate in boxing history. Not too shabby, if you ask me.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/boxin...cid=spartanntp

[GaMo]

I never thought it would break the record
And I'm suprised it did as well as it did
Who'd have thought an 0-0 Irish fighter
Would sell better than an 42-0 Mexican.

[X]

Maybe Floyd generates these huge numbers because the crossover general public just want to see the 'bad guy' beaten ...... but boxing fans now know that Mayweather is virtually untouchable around that weight (or was)

With that in mind, fighting some sort of non boxer would generate much more unknowns and speculation than fighting a boxer. If he fought a 7 foot wrestler or a rabid chimpanzee I reckon or would have been equally as big, especially if the opponent could bring in sales from people who wouldn't ordinarily buy boxing PPV's

[Master]

Maybe Floyd generates these huge numbers because the crossover general public just want to see the 'bad guy' beaten ...... but boxing fans now know that Mayweather is virtually untouchable around that weight (or was)

With that in mind, fighting some sort of non boxer would generate much more unknowns and speculation than fighting a boxer. If he fought a 7 foot wrestler or a rabid chimpanzee I reckon or would have been equally as big, especially if the opponent could bring in sales from people who wouldn't ordinarily buy boxing PPV's

Floyd v AJ next year it is then.

[Master]

Conor McGregor is being sued for €78k by a security guard over an incident arising from his infamous press conference with Nate Diaz last year.

According to US website the Blast, security guard William Pegg is suing after claiming he was hit in the back of the head by a can after McGregor and Diaz launched objects at each other during a press conference ahead of their second fight at the David Copperfield Theater in Las Vegas.

Both McGregor and Diaz were previously fined by the Nevada State Commission over the incident.

Pegg is claiming that he paid out €4,100 in medical expenses following the incident.

The security guard and his legal team are suing for €78k based on the fact that McGregor made €12m from the Diaz fight. They suggest the Notorious was struck "significantly" by Diaz 166 times, so divided €12m by 166 and arrived at the figure of 74k with the medical expenses rounding it off to €78k.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/mma/c...cid=spartanntp