Quote Originally Posted by fan johnny View Post
I used to be excited for a MP/FM fight without putting much thought into it. But now I think it's not the best fight. Mayweather will run for 80% of the fight after tasting a few hit from Pacquiao making the fight somewhat anticlimactic. I think Mosley makes a fight with Pacquiao.

I also don't think there will ever be a fight that will break 2 million ppv buys. The problem with ppv has is the internet. In just 1 hour after the Pac/Cotto fight it was all over youtube and within 2 hours you could download the fight in HD. There is no way today with the alternative media available that ppv is going to break the old ppv record numbers. Put the fight on podcast, hulu and other web based media, reduce the fight price to $10 bucks and watch the sales skyrocket out of orbit.
I couldn 't disagree more. The fight needs to happen and all indications have it leading to a record breaker. People who have never purchased anything before, are all already saying they'd buy this fight. You have guys like Bert Sugar out there now calling it the fight of the century as far as mass appeal goes. It will be monumental.

The web-based idea also is wrong. While it would be nice to watch for $10, it is getting pirated up the ass by the internet and people creating free links on the backs of one paid subsription now. The pirating would be about 100x worse in the format you recommend, and easily exploitable.