RJJ/Trinidad 500K, Pacquiao/Marquez 400k, Cotto/Mosley 300K

250118y ago

Supposedly, the reason Sportscenter and other sports show do not do segments or highlights on Boxing is because there isnt any mainstream interest. Those fights in the title are just some of the fights that didnt involve Mayweather or DLH within the past year that generated large PPV numbers. Obviously, people STILL care about Boxing. So I find it VERY hard to believe that the "mainstream public" has more interest in hotdog eating contest, bowling, fishing, arm wrestling and other odd shit that gets highlights or segments on Sportscenter. Wtf is going on? Do you think some kind of major online cross board petition , as corny as that sounds, could make a difference or get the attention of the heads in ESPN? If one were to be made with hundreds of thousands of online "signatures", would that get some heads turning?

Comments (13)

2501

mosley aint really a superstar in terms of sales. he can't sell out arenas by himself or sell ppv's. dlh/mosley sold because of dlh. vargas/mosley sold because of vargas. aren't those his only ppv's? vargas/mosley II did 350K. 300K for a young cotto aint bad. careful, making to much sense will cause you to be labeled a cotto nuthugger.

18y ago

Big_L

18y ago

2501

ok so Mayweather fights a no-name and draws 300k yet the fuckin super nova that is Cotto drew the same with another "superstar" in Mosley yet people want to say that cotto has a fan base...not saying that it matters I still want the fight made...but think about it what would it matter if Mayweather is the super draw though? Cotto has a PPV average of about 300 K at the moment. There should be no reason why Cotto/Floyd shouldnt do less than 800 K if Floyd is really that big of a draw. One thing is for certain, the Baldo fight did more damage than good marketing wise for Floyd. DLH bailed him out on that. I dont know why Floyd can be helped by other fights like Gatti and DLH to raise his ppv stock but Floyd doesnt have to do the same. "Im not gonna make other fighters big".

18y ago

SkilledB

18y ago

2501

Cotto vs Mosley did 300K? Thats two superstars...Mayweather did 420+ K against a feather dusting bum like Baldomir, he shouldnt have fought that cab driver but still shows you he can pick a random street guy like Roy Jones did and still do a good PPV that fight did 320K, where did you get 420 from?

18y ago

shynequasiog22

The shitty thing is it's not just ESPN, magazines are the same way. I get SI and on their week ahead section they almost never mention boxing. As far as I can remember they only had Wlad Vs. Sultan on their. They did have an article about Taylor Vs. Pavlik II but those are few and far between.

18y ago

Bea5T

its sad that they probably wont even talk about the bhop/calzaghe fight.... its the biggest fight in the past few years that didnt involve DLH or PBF

18y ago

Lazy_Liberal

or some other kind of agenda. it really doesnt make any sense to me and my girlfriend has a her masters from UT (We destroyed Stanford yay) for Marketing and Advertising. Is Hockey a bigger sport in the US than Boxing? I dont know even 5 people who watch Hockey. I swear I saw Espn showin a La Crosse highlight, Yeah the real popular La MotherFuckin Crosse. You know what, I feel there is some foul biased against boxing fans based on race. i can't prove it but I have a strong feeling that ESPN classifies boxing as a Mexican thing or a black thing. If not that , why no coverage. They assume that boxing has no white fans, fuckin simpletons.

18y ago

Big_L

lets get something going. i e-mail them sometimes. hasn't worked yet.

18y ago

2501

It's like they try to blacklist boxing as being "uncool" it sounds like some childish high school shit to me. or some other kind of agenda. it really doesnt make any sense to me and my girlfriend has a her masters from UT (We destroyed Stanford yay) for Marketing and Advertising. Is Hockey a bigger sport in the US than Boxing? I dont know even 5 people who watch Hockey.

18y ago

Bea5T

im pretty sure rjj and trinidad got some coverage but Sportscenter doesnt even cover the fights they show on their own network its pathetic

18y ago

SkillspayBills

It's like they try to blacklist boxing as being "uncool" it sounds like some childish high school shit to me.

18y ago

Lazy_Liberal

Those numbers do not take into account the number of people who go over someones house and watch it. How about those people who go to bar or restaurant. Espn and all those "SPort" shows are lame.

18y ago