Fights that deserved the May/Pac payday

No fight deserves what they made in that fight , it is so far away from the rest of boxing it hurts the sport from the inside out , that fight meshed together a very special set of circumstances too pull that off , going to take a very long time if ever before we see that again . Agreed entirely! I think there's too much money involved in sports anyway. However, I understand the sentiment in this thread, basically: which fight was actually worth big money and I'll put in some british domestic dust ups: Mathew Macklin v Jamie Moore, what a tough, hard, action packed fight! Derry Matthews v Tommy Coyle, one of the greatest comebacks in recent years Kevin Mitchell v John Murray, a real war of attrition

Nobody. Those two are ATG's and were on incredible runs. Mayweather was always going to win, the delay just made them both a lot richer.

There is no universe where pac could have won and no universe where 4.6 mill ppv's will happen again unless it's '88 tyson vs a live gorilla....

It was the delay that Floyd/Arum pulled off that spiked it so high. They could've fought in 2010, for 50m each, with Pacquiao likely winning a decision. Then boxing goes back to the dark ages immediately until someone like Tyson 2.0 (Wilder if he wasn't a retard) would regenerate interest where it has to be generated (at the heavyweight level).

No fight deserves what they made in that fight , it is so far away from the rest of boxing it hurts the sport from the inside out , that fight meshed together a very special set of circumstances too pull that off , going to take a very long time if ever before we see that again .