Whos the rightful draw of the Historic 2.4M PPV buys?

Do the pac fans do this when floyd fights?

I believe it sold around 6,000 seats at the Home Depot Center and 0 PPVs. 28,000 ppl, and at least a fight against a no name opponent wasnt ppv. easily couldve been and would have sold but wasnt. these days that fight was ppv if it was floyd or manny

Seriously? Just when I thought it got no worse than the Tyson / Velazquez thread..When was the last DLH fight that he WASN'T the main draw? They both were huge draws already, but DLH was by far the main draw in the Floyd AND in the Manny fight. Without question. If he came back today he would still be. /thread

Option #3 - Richard Schaefer. The man truly promoted the hell of the event/money grab. No other fight in recent history (at the time) received the amount of attention and promotion dedicated to that fight, and broke the mold for how PPV's are presented.

lol at the retards who voted mayweather. sure he added to it, but the main draw by a miiiile was odlh. floyd and pac became bigger than they were AFTER their dlh fights.

more dlh than floyd but definitely not all dlh. anyone who thinks so really doesnt make sense. it too both of them to put up those numbers. floyd played the perfect villain.

How can you side with one fighter as the draw, in the biggest selling PPV fight in boxing history? 2.4 million. Neither fighter would do that many PPV's without the other. ACTUALLY, Floyd can once again flirt with that number or at least close to it, mayb even surpass it, by fighting Pacquiao. But De La Hoya vs Pacquiao only sold 1.2Million, De La Hoya vs Pacquiao could not come close to 2.4Mill but Mayweather vs Pacquiao would certainly sell over 1.2Million PPV buys, and come close to 2.4Mill. Just a little off topic: Mayweather vs a past prime Mosley sold 1.5Million, De La Hoya vs a prime Mosley I, sold 590,000 buys, the second fight sold 900k. You will have to add both DLH vs Mosley fights, in order to match Floyd's lone fight with the past prime Mosley, and added up it still falls about 100k short. No doubt, Oscar has more PPV fights than Floyd, therefore has sold more PPVs than Mayweather, and has generated more money than Floyd. Floyd was doing 300k-500k with guys like Gatti, Judah and Baldomir, neither of those guys have had a HBO PPV. Floyd did 900k with Hatton, who also has never been on HBO PPV before that, 1.1Mill with Marquez, 1.5Mill with Mosley, 1.25 Mill with Ortiz, each of these fights sold more PPV's than Oscar's last fight, except the Marquez fight. Let's do a recap, how many fighters have had their biggest HBP PPV numbers and who were they going against. The Following Fighters Highest PPV Numbers: Oscar De La Hoya, 2.4Million: vs Mayweather Ricky Hatton, 900K: vs Mayweather Juan Manuel Marquez, 1.1Million: vs Mayweather Shane Mosley, 1.5Million: vs Mayweather Victor Ortiz only PPV, 1.25Mill: vs Mayweather Guess who else would have his highest PPV numbers if he fights Floyd Mayweather? DLH, definitely. Mayweather's very next fight it sold 800k. It sold 900k. Pacquiao vs Hatton sold 800k.

Oscar, anyone that says Mayweather is clearly delusional. And same applies to De La Hoya-Pacquiao. This. Don't even know why people are trying to spin it any other way. Don't bring that 'pactard vs flomo' sh*t here. Facts are facts, DLH was the bigger star at the time by MILES. He had already established himself as a PPV star and had done 1.4 mil with Tito (1 mil with BHop and close to 1 mil with Shane, Vargas, and Mayorga) before 24/7. Floyd's highest selling PPV was 350K against Zab Judah. Oscar made a record $52 million from that fight while Floyd took home $25 mil. That tells the story right there. Saying it's Floyd would be the same as saying Mosley is the biggest draw in the sport, he did 1.4 mil followed by 1.3 mil. Oscar was the A side, Floyd the B side by a wide margin. That fight turned Floyd into a major PPV star, DLH was established as that long before that.

Oscar made floyd

What did Oscar's next fight sell? I believe it sold around 6,000 seats at the Home Depot Center and 0 PPVs.

Whoever had the lion share of the purse would be my guess.

Before being a boxer fan, I only knew some boxers. Ali, Mike Tyson, Gatti (I'm from Montreal, that's why) and Oscar. Mayweather wasn't a name I knew. Bigger draw at that time? Oscar.

both.. neither would have done 2.4 without the other. The main draw was of course dela hoya, but he needed floyd and his persona to peak the interest. Look at oscars other big fights and compare the numbers. This....................

Have you seen the fight? It wasn't boring, it just didn't live up to the hype. Thats cus Floyd said he was going to ICE Oscar while Oscar said he is going to make it a rough tough fight.... they over hyped the fight. But I agree it wasnt boring I thought it was a good match and even, I felt Oscar won well he did enough to defend his title. But if your asking who the draw is easily thats DLH all day long, it was obvious who brought out the fans to the fight.... a draw is not just the PPV purchasers its also the fans who attend and Oscar had I would say about 80% of the audience there for him, and I am sure he had at least 50% of the PPV fans as well if not more.

Floyd will probably do that number again or better next May 7th if the fight go through DLH never came close to those numbers even when he fought undefeated Tito

DLH, definitely. Mayweather's very next fight it sold 800k. And DLH next fight was on B.A.D........

DLH, definitely. Mayweather's very next fight it sold 800k. What did Oscar's next fight sell?

DLH, definitely. Mayweather's very next fight it sold 800k.

Then they got a boring fight for 12 rounds. Have you seen the fight? It wasn't boring, it just didn't live up to the hype.

Combination of 1st 24/7, Undefeated p4p 1 Money May's Persona, De La Hoya, Cinco De Mayo = 2.4