Last edited by JazMerkin; 05-12-2010 at 01:29 AM.
Whats more impressive is that a fight with two american fighters did that many buys.
There was no "country vs country" behind the fight. There was no "national pride" at stake. It was two American fighters who more or less share the same type of crowd appeal which is the american public. That plus whatever crowd Mosley appeals to mayweather appeals to the bigger majority of it, so its actually very good. I can't think of the last time two american's really put on that big of a PPV fight. Maybe Tyson vs Spinks.
But if you look most of the biggest PPV fights, either was foreign vs foreign or American vs Foreign.
Like Oscar DLH vs Trinidad was Mexico vs Puerto Rico. Pacquiao vs Cotto, Phillipines vs Puerto Rico because they have large demographics to sale a fight on and many people.
But american's have so many boxing stars its very hard to solidify one or two and sale them to the same audience.
So the fact Shane and Floyd both did 1.4 mill is very impressive imo.
Last edited by InTheNeutralCorner; 05-12-2010 at 10:18 PM.
De La Hoya carried the Mexican fans though and I definitely wouldn't say Pacquiao has a bigger fanbase in America just a more devoted one I guess. De La Hoya owns LA when it comes to boxing like no one else does any city in America.
I don't care how much they hype a Manny/Floyd fight it will never come close to Floyd vs Oscar in PPV numbers and I don't believe it would do 2 million buys. Oscar was the darling of the networks and was/is a very good speaker and Floyd and Manny don't stack up in those regards.
1.4 million is good news, provin the sport aint dead yet ha ha
what would Pac v PBF do?
anyone like to guess?
For every story told that divides us, I believe there are a thousand untold that unite us.
He's just got the glasses, he doesn't have the right kind of look although I was pretty impressed with it overall. He looks more like your full-on nutter type than some sleazy gambling character.
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