Quote Originally Posted by BodyHead
Quote Originally Posted by Hairdoo
Even if PBF takes the short money the exposure is an investment!! If he makes it a good fight and not catch me if you can Oscar will no doubt inflate Floyd's future earnings more than anyone else and frankly after Baldomir Floyd could do with that.
good points, if he were to beat oscar... do you think floyd would stick to his word and retire?
and would he get the recognition that were saying he will get... things change in an instant a year from now we might all be saying oh oscar was past it...
well.... if anyone was to make excuses for oscar im pretty sure floyds fanclub in all its entirety would go apeshit and destroy all..lol that would be the worst thing to say to a big floyd fan after he beat oscar
lol
peace
Wrong. The ODLH fight isn't an investment for Floyd. If Floyd beats ODLH, he still won't be a huge PPV star. Putting up high PPV numbers is all about personality. That's the reason why ODLH and Tyson were MEGA stars. Floyd talks a lot but he doesn't have the out of the ring qualities of a Ray Leonard or a ODLH to ever do big numbers on PPV. Remember Oscar 1997-2000 was ALL over the place, doing magazine interviews, talk shows, and what not. Floyd puts a lot of people off with his ego. He doesn't have the natural charisma to go along with his cockiness like SRL did. With all that being said, Floyd should go for as much money as he can get from ODLH in this fight because Floyd won't get another megafight again.

BTW, Let's not overestimate how much ODLH doesn't need Floyd. How many PPV buys did ODLH get for fight Felix Sturm? 380,000. But how many PPV buys did ODLH get for fighting Hopkins? 1 Million. Hopkins has never done well on PPV, but the matchup creates a huge PPV. How many PPV buys did ODLH get for fighting Campas? 350,000. But how many PPV buys did ODLH get for fighting the Mosley rematch? 925,000. My point here is that even though this is ODLH's "last fight," the buying public isn't gonna buy crap.