Quote Originally Posted by uptoscratch
Quote Originally Posted by Bx730NY
I'm talking about what I have seen personally. I don't speculate or imagine. All I can tell you is that as long as I've been watching boxing, I haven't heard a more unanimous response in regards to who should be fighting. With all the internet activity going on these days, all you have to do is look around and you will easily see how the boxing fans have come together again to sing in chorus. And you want to know what song we are all singing? Cotto vs Mayweather
That may all be true, but initially you said "this fight can't get any bigger." That's hardly true. Maybe it can't get any bigger among hardcore fans, but the "chorus" of hardcore fans who post on Internet boxing Web sites don't make $100 million fights. More people saw the Oscar v. Floyd PPV than know who Miguel Cotto is outside of Puerto Rico.

All good fights since the invention of the Internet creates big Internet buzz among hardcore fans -- Calzaghe-Kessler, Pac-JMM -- getting excited about this stuff is why they are hardcore fans. But an Oscar-Floyd rematch would still be a much bigger fight in terms of dollars and overall interest from the public. It's unfortunate, but that's the way it is.
THANK YOU. This is exactly what I'm saying. And the fights I listed (Ali-Frazier, Hagler-Leonard, etc.) had the interests of both the hardcore fans AND the general public.

Bx... just so you know, I wasn't alive in 1970 or 1971, I wouldn't be born for another 10 years. But anyone who has spent one second learning the history of the sport knows that Ali-Frazier had more demand than Floyd-Cotto. That's why it was called, "The Fight of the Century."

If you want a recent example of a fight that got more widespread media demand and buzz than Mayweather-Cotto will:
Lewis-Tyson