Quote Originally Posted by Puya
Do the casual fan actually enjoyed the first one?
This is what people don't get -- it's irrelevant. The casual fan doesn't tune in because they love watching great fights, they tune in because it's a big event. Otherwise they wouldn't be casual fans, they'd be hardcore fans. They weren't comparing Floyd-Oscar to Marquez-Vazquez because they don't even know that either Marquez or Vazquez exist.

If you asked the average American to name an active boxer, Oscar and Floyd would be the only two names that almost everyone knows. That drives media attention, and we're talking mainstream media, not boxingtalk.com -- newspapers, magazines, television -- which in turn drives the PPV numbers. For example, Sports Illustrated had about three paragraphs on boxing in their year-end issue. One was about Floyd, one was about Oscar, and the other was about the heavyweight division being boring.

Maybe there'll be some drop-off from the first fight, but these guys are smart promoters and they are still the biggest names in the sport. It'll do at least a million-five and it wouldn't surprise me at all to see it near, or top two.