Quote Originally Posted by 0james0 View Post
I don't think you can measure a fights popularity by the number of people at the event, or even PPV buys.

With all the live streams and full fight downloads available, it distorts how many people actually watched it. I bet most boxing fans have now watched the fight.
But if a huge number of people are willing to watch the event live or subscribe to the PPV instead of watching the live stream, then the fight is indeed that popular. So the popularity of a fight will be based on this. Whatever cannot be counted will just be speculation. But I know where you are coming from.