Slow ticket sales for Mayweather-JMM fight

[XaduBoxer]

This thread was started May 31 and I think there's some posts here mentioning of a possible postponement/cancellation of this PBF-JMM fight due to the slow sales of tickets and PPVs... Now it became a reality...

I think PBF faking a rib injury that results to the postponement of his July 18 fight with JMM... PBF faking an injury due to the slow sales...
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Whatever the case, hopefully now with Mayweather-Marquez off Pacquiao can stop being a bitch and fight Marquez again.

JMM is a good candidate for PAC's fight in October or November but there are other good candidates too... For example, the "much soften" Cotto (Arum loves a PAC-Cotto fight )... There's PBF himself, I'm guessing his fake injury will be fully healed in August ... There's Valero... So many options for PAC...
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[XaduBoxer]

link --> POOR TICKET SALES CONTRIBUTE TO MAYWEATHER-MARQUEZ POSTPONEMENT


Perhaps the July 18 clash between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Juan Manuel Marquez wasn't so highly anticipated after all. Sources close to the situation have informed us that although Mayweather may have suffered a rib injury during training, poor ticket sales were the major contributing factor in the decision to postpone the bout. "Ticket sales suck," an anonymous source revealed.Indeed, ticket sales were moving much slower than anticipated. As late as Friday, fans could still purchase the limit of 10 tickets in the $300 price range, the second cheapest seats available. Given the fact that the bout was announced on May 2nd, just hours before Manny Pacquiao's clash with Ricky Hatton, it should come as no surprise that so many tickets were still available. With just 11 weeks separating the original announcement and the actual fight, there simply wasn't enough time for Golden Boy Promotions to properly promote the bout."The new date will depend on doctor's orders. Will it be a month later? Two months later? We don't know. He needs to heal," stated Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer. Although the fight has yet to be rescheduled, it's rumored that a likely date could be September 19, the weekend following Mexican Independence Day. Traditionally, it's a date that's always been reserved for fights involving Mexican boxers like Marco Antonio Barrera, Erik Morales, Oscar De La Hoya and Juan Manuel Marquez. The move would give Golden Boy Promotions much more time to promote the event and likely bolster ticket sales within the Mexican community.

[XaduBoxer]

link --> Dog eats Mayweather’s homework, fight off

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The next time I hold a garage sale and nobody shows up I'm gonna blame it on a rib injury.

On June 5, a Web site devoted to boxing called Philboxing.com -- not Phil as in a guy's name or Phil as in the abbreviation for the 76ers in the NBA standings (although I guess that's Phila., according to the front of Hal Greer's old uniform) but Phil as in the Philippines -- reported that ticket sales were lagging for the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Juan Manuel Marquez fight scheduled July 18 at the MGM Grand.

Golden Boy Promotions, according to the report, would announce in the next 2-3 weeks that one of the fighters had suffered an injury in training and the fight would be postponed.

Actually, it was more like nine days when Mayweather "injured his ribs."
It had to be Mayweather who feigned -- I mean suffered -- the injury because anybody who has seen Marquez fight knows that he'd never pull out of one for any reason short of stepping on a land mine.

As for my garage sale, it's still on. The featured items are a print of "Dogs Playing Poker" and a bunch of weak excuses for calling off fights, which I'm selling for a dime a dozen.

[JT Rock]

link --> Dog eats Mayweather’s homework, fight off

NOW

The next time I hold a garage sale and nobody shows up I'm gonna blame it on a rib injury.

On June 5, a Web site devoted to boxing called Philboxing.com -- not Phil as in a guy's name or Phil as in the abbreviation for the 76ers in the NBA standings (although I guess that's Phila., according to the front of Hal Greer's old uniform) but Phil as in the Philippines -- reported that ticket sales were lagging for the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Juan Manuel Marquez fight scheduled July 18 at the MGM Grand.

Golden Boy Promotions, according to the report, would announce in the next 2-3 weeks that one of the fighters had suffered an injury in training and the fight would be postponed.

Actually, it was more like nine days when Mayweather "injured his ribs."
It had to be Mayweather who feigned -- I mean suffered -- the injury because anybody who has seen Marquez fight knows that he'd never pull out of one for any reason short of stepping on a land mine.

As for my garage sale, it's still on. The featured items are a print of "Dogs Playing Poker" and a bunch of weak excuses for calling off fights, which I'm selling for a dime a dozen.

XanduBoxer you are a disgrace and an embarrassment to this site, you bring nothing original to the table just recycled propaganda and negativity

You truly are pathetic

[XaduBoxer]

link --> Dog eats Mayweather’s homework, fight off

NOW

The next time I hold a garage sale and nobody shows up I'm gonna blame it on a rib injury.

On June 5, a Web site devoted to boxing called Philboxing.com -- not Phil as in a guy's name or Phil as in the abbreviation for the 76ers in the NBA standings (although I guess that's Phila., according to the front of Hal Greer's old uniform) but Phil as in the Philippines -- reported that ticket sales were lagging for the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Juan Manuel Marquez fight scheduled July 18 at the MGM Grand.

Golden Boy Promotions, according to the report, would announce in the next 2-3 weeks that one of the fighters had suffered an injury in training and the fight would be postponed.

Actually, it was more like nine days when Mayweather "injured his ribs."
It had to be Mayweather who feigned -- I mean suffered -- the injury because anybody who has seen Marquez fight knows that he'd never pull out of one for any reason short of stepping on a land mine.

As for my garage sale, it's still on. The featured items are a print of "Dogs Playing Poker" and a bunch of weak excuses for calling off fights, which I'm selling for a dime a dozen.

XanduBoxer you are a disgrace and an embarrassment to this site, you bring nothing original to the table just recycled propaganda and negativity

You truly are pathetic

Propaganda? That's what happened, the fight got postponed... You can't blame the guys who predicted this things weeks earlier... They're predicting this fight might get postponed due to the slow ticket sales and they added that the convenient excuse for the postponement might be one of the boxers will be declared "injured"... They called it weeks earlier so can't blame them if they believed it's really because of the slow ticket sales...
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[JT Rock]

link --> Dog eats Mayweather’s homework, fight off

NOW

The next time I hold a garage sale and nobody shows up I'm gonna blame it on a rib injury.

On June 5, a Web site devoted to boxing called Philboxing.com -- not Phil as in a guy's name or Phil as in the abbreviation for the 76ers in the NBA standings (although I guess that's Phila., according to the front of Hal Greer's old uniform) but Phil as in the Philippines -- reported that ticket sales were lagging for the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Juan Manuel Marquez fight scheduled July 18 at the MGM Grand.

Golden Boy Promotions, according to the report, would announce in the next 2-3 weeks that one of the fighters had suffered an injury in training and the fight would be postponed.

Actually, it was more like nine days when Mayweather "injured his ribs."
It had to be Mayweather who feigned -- I mean suffered -- the injury because anybody who has seen Marquez fight knows that he'd never pull out of one for any reason short of stepping on a land mine.

As for my garage sale, it's still on. The featured items are a print of "Dogs Playing Poker" and a bunch of weak excuses for calling off fights, which I'm selling for a dime a dozen.

XanduBoxer you are a disgrace and an embarrassment to this site, you bring nothing original to the table just recycled propaganda and negativity

You truly are pathetic

Propaganda? That's what happened, the fight got postponed... You can't blame the guys who predicted this things weeks earlier... They're predicting this fight might get postponed due to the slow ticket sales and they added that the convenient excuse for the postponement might be one of the boxers will be declared "injured"... They called it weeks earlier so can't blame them if they believed it's really because of the slow ticket sales...
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Whatever dude.. you know your style and mode of operation and so does everyone else

[ElTerribleMorales]

XanduBoxer you are a disgrace and an embarrassment to this site, you bring nothing original to the table just recycled propaganda and negativity

You truly are pathetic

Propaganda? That's what happened, the fight got postponed... You can't blame the guys who predicted this things weeks earlier... They're predicting this fight might get postponed due to the slow ticket sales and they added that the convenient excuse for the postponement might be one of the boxers will be declared "injured"... They called it weeks earlier so can't blame them if they believed it's really because of the slow ticket sales...
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Whatever dude.. you know your style and mode of operation and so does everyone else

like i said on another thread (cause you know that the retard makes at least a dozen threads that are basically all about the same thing), Mayweather/Marquez was announced on May 2, so it hasn't even been 2 months since then, and the fight was originally set to happen in about a month from now, Pac/Hatton was announced at the end of December, they fought in May, that's a good 5 months of promotion and publicity, and even with that the fight wasn't sold out till 2 weeks before the fight, you can't even compare the two situations, all i know is that Mayweather has had more PPV sales in his last 2 fights against the same opponnents than Pacquiao has, that's gotta say something

[XaduBoxer]

Another excerpts from one article:

Mayweather-Marquez. Golden Boy Promotions announced yesterday that Mayweather had suffered a rib injury and the Marquez fight is off, at least for the time being. I'm not the sort to doubt training injuries absent evidence, but there is a lot of suspicion out there about whether there were other motives at work here. I make no judgement on those suspicions, although they do point to other interesting items that warrant discussion anyhow. Suspicion #1 is that Mayweather-Marquez tickets aren't selling well and therefore it would be embarrassing to Mayweather if the trend continued between now and July 18. That raises a question that I'll get to in a minute, but my first reaction is: It serves you right, Mayweather. Tickets, from what I've been told by friends of this site, are absurdly overpriced. That's the consequence of demanding $15 million for a fight that is, according to many, a mismatch between a welterweight and lightweight. And, of course, it's thought a bad style match-up, featuring one fighter who isn't yet proven as an A-side (Mayweather) and another fighter who is popular in Mexico but not as popular as he ought to be (Marquez). If this fight isn't selling, can everyone who admires Mayweather for his money-making and "business" skills as opposed to his actual in-ring performances and opponent choices please, please, go to the emergency room and have themselves de-superglued from his jock? Especially since Mayweather chose his opponent so poorly if what he wanted was a 60-40 share against Manny Pacquiao down the line; Mayweather overruled advisor Al Haymon when he wanted to be on pay-per-view instead of regular HBO, and now he's dug himself quite a hole. Mayweather being a good "businessman" is a myth, because you can only get away so long with getting paid highly for taking few risks, and that chicken has, it seems, come to roost. Suspicion #2 is that Mayweather just wants to go straight to Pacquiao. As with both these suspicions, neither is very credible if Marquez has any recourse for insisting that the fight be postponed only, rather than canceled. It seems like this has to be settled one way or the other, because you can't guarantee a ton more tickets sold if the fight is moved to September around Mexican Independence Day, as is being discussed, which means Mayweather would still be screwed.