Quote Originally Posted by Bilbo
Actually three of my non boxing friends to my suprisement all watched the De La Hoya Mayweather fight and all of them thought it was a good fight.

They didn't catch all the hype that we did, the 24/7 show and following the press conferences on the internet.

They all felt it was an enjyable fight.

I don't know why so many of you guys hate on that fight either, I really enjoyed it, it completely gripped me watching it live as Oscar was in the fight right up to the final bell.

He lost a SPLIT DECISION people!!!

It annoys the crap out of me to be honest to hear people on hear saying in retrospect, 'Floyd won easily, I scored it 116-112' as if you watched the fight live with no sense of excitement of emotion, just a flatline heart response, knowing from round 1 that Floyd was in control.

That wasn't how it was at all, it was a nip and tuck fight in which Oscar came within a whisker of beating of Floyd.

I think it's just hating in the extreme to put a fight like that in the 'loses fans' category

It was the BIGGEST PPV OF ALL TIME!!! How the hell did it lose fans
Read my post again. I said it probably turned off the marginal boxing fans. The fact that it was the biggest PPV of all time has no bearing on my point. The people that paid in droves to see the fight were already either hardcore fans or marginal boxing fans. There was broad-based interest. It is AFTER the fight that matters. What did the results of the fight do for boxing? Did it attract more fans? Did the marginal fans become hardcore fans because of the grand spectacle they witnessed? IMO, no. Matter of fact, many marginal fans probably got turned off by the perceived lack of action and may decide not to shell out another $50 for another PPV fight.