Is De la Hoya -Maywearher a lie??

[Verstyle]

I do get what you're saying- which was why I was mentioning I had been asking people at parties. I go to college so I'm in a very broad social group when I go out. I've asked ****** black guys, white sorority girls, potheads and jocks- and most who have heard of it know little and the rest are in the dark. I've asked many races and social groups. What I meant in referring to age was I had been informally querying across the social strata of the age range and getting little informed feedback.

yeah like i said its big,just not big everywhere like every sport.

[EliteSoldier]

I'd be the happiest person in the world if Oscar can knock Floyd out. Knock floyd out of the ring.

Make that boy bleed

[Njord777]

Mayweather makes a convincing villain.

[Southpaw16]

It will be a mainstream event in the sense that it will have a lot of viewers and will get mainstream media coverage. Even if it gets the 1.5 million or so projected PPV buys that is still like 1/20th of the viewers that American Idol gets, so it isn't mainstream in the sense that everybody you meet is gonna know about it.

[Njord777]

Can boxing ever be huge again?

[mew.2]

Can boxing ever be huge again?

Sure the only thing that is needed is a KO artist and hype think about where lacy would be if joe didnt kill him.

[Prostitroop]

I think I know what he's saying. We don't have any giant household names in boxing that produce hype and all around media coverage like Tyson, Ali, etc... DLH is probably the only boxer out now, where if you don't know **** about boxing, you still know who he is. Not to mention, DLH is possibly the only boxer out now that gets guaranteed 8 figure purses, while PBF is still at 7figure purses. (almost 8). But that will change come May 5. It has been reported that Oscar will earn at least $25 million for the fight, and Floyd will earn at least $10-12 million. Mike Tyson got a $US-21 million dollar purse in his prime, But that was expected. He was already a giant household name, weather you watched fights or not.

De La Hoya is the only household name out of the two, and the event is probably marketed more in the hispanic community. I work in the cable business, so we know about big, upcoming fights. But I haven't seen any stories or media promoting this fight. Believe it or not, alot of people don't even know about this fight, and most of the casual boxing fans that do, found out about the fight by word of mouth.

This will be a huge, profitable PPV event, just like the DLH/Hopkins which had a record breaking 1 million buys. (note, DLH made $30 million for the fight and Hopkins, who made only $300,000 in a fight just nine months before fighting DLH, got a minimum of $10 million. Biggest payday of Hopkin's career)

Yes, alot of people will buy this fight, but the majority of buys will come from the hispanic community.

[OptimusWolf]

No international fight outside the heavyweight division can make a big splash in the UK unless it features a British fighter.

Even Jones Jnr wasn't a big draw in the UK until he went up to fight Ruiz. In the mainstream, the heavyweight division is what matters unless a domestic fighter is tearing a lower weight up aka Hatton, Calzaghe, Hamed did.

In the UK our broadcaster is selling the fight mainly as the WBC title fight, with a bit about de la hoya being a legend and floyd being thought of as possibly the best fighter in the sport. But its not being branded in the same way that it is talked about on here.

[Franko]

They say it'll be the biggest boxing fight in years. Hundreds of millions of dollars to be made by the fighters, promoters, in money pumping through endorsements and gate/ ppv sales. That it will bring the sport back into the mainstream. Will it, though?

Most of my friends who don't watch boxing- who I haven't told about the fight still know nothing about it. We're talking age range 19-26. Males. Isn't that a real target audience? They haven't heard anything about it and only know DLH through name recognition.

Further, I did a little random sampling and went into a half dozen non-sport related chat rooms and asked around if anyone knew what it was. Only 1/3 of the rooms had anyone who knew what it was. That it was a boxing match...but they didn't know much more than that.

It seems that only slightly more people than normal are hearing about this fight. People who don't care about boxing still don't care about it though- unlike some of the old Tyson fights, etc.

So...is it all a lie? Will this fight really bring boxing back to the mainstream? Is DLH-Mayweathr going to bring back the casual fan? Doesn't seem like it...

This is something that you've experienced. It doesn't mean that it's widespread.