Quote Originally Posted by El Gamo
Quote Originally Posted by Fenster
Quote Originally Posted by El Gamo
I don't know where Dios got his numbers from but here is a link from a reliable soure:

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/box...ory?id=2657809

Mayweather Baldo 325k,Mayweather Judah 374k(NOT 340k and 400k as in your list),so Cotto,at 27,has done more than any Mayweather fight bar the Oscar fight?Awesome1!
I don't think you can really judge it like that. Cotto wasn't the only attraction Mosley was too.

325k for Floyd-Baldomir. That's nothing special for "the best fighter in the world" BUT how many Baldomir fans bought the fight? None. Because Baldomir doesn't have a following.

374k for Floyd-Zab compared with 180K for Cotto-Zab. That's much more telling.
Maybe,maybe not.Cotto did 225k with Judah(I've only seen 1 link provided, for that,ESPN article,I've seen nothing other than someone's word for 180k,I'm going with Rafael's article until I see the other link),which is still not bad for a guy who has had only a few PPv

fights..And regardless of who he did those with,the numbers Cotto did with Shane are good and are going to raise his stock.Although I agree with the Floyd Baldo analysis,it still shows Floyd is not the mainstream star I've read he is.Then he wasn't. We'll see for the Hatton Mayweather fight. I've read peeps say it'll do 1mill. No way do I see it like that.I think 700k max.
Yeah this fight with Ricky will show just how much BIGGER Oscar-Floyd made Floyd. Although I highly doubt it will get anywhere near 700,000 let alone 1 million.

My point about Cotto was his fight numbers fall into the standard PPV for all fighters barring Oscar.. I don't see his numbers surging upwards in the future. Guys like Oscar are clearly one-offs in the popularity stakes.