Which will generate more money Pac/Marquez or Mayweather/Ortiz?

[Jody Lane]

I assume that Pacquiao Marquez will generate more money than Mayweather Ortiz will. I will be floored if both fights don't sell out with people paying big money on the secondary market in the weeks leading up to it.

As for ppv buys I think it will be close. I expect Pac/Marquez to sell much greater internationally but even with all the Mayweather critics, his ppv numbers speak for themselves.

That being said, both fights have a substantial number of tickets available on ticketmaster - maybe people are still holding out for them to fight each other.

Thoughts?

According to Arum, the better more exciting the fight turns out to be for Mayweather vs Ortiz then it helps to sell Pacquiao vs Marquez. It will pump people up. If Mayweather vs Ortiz ends up being a dud of a fight then it will hurt Pacquiao vs Marquez.

How that for ironic?

If mayweather loses, which is a possibility given his long absences and age (remember Ray Leonard taking 2 years off and coming back versus Terry Norris in 1991 and finding out he didn't have it) it will take a lot of luster off the pac fight.jmo