Ellerbe: "Fans Coming For Floyd, Not Ricky"

[DURAN_IS_GOD]

Leonard Ellerbe needs to start coming to terms with the fact that Floyd Joy Sinclair is about as popular as Aids in Africa.

lmao ****ing hilarious

[Randall_Hopkirk]

i see your point but if it was calzaghe fighting floyd then he would have nowhere near that kind of support. hatton is followed everywhere by thousands of british fans, and he has consistently sold the MEN arena out for the best part of 8 years. he is supported as such because of his exciting style and fantastic personality. of course floyd being p4p 1 number is a factor but the fans are travelling to see ricky fight not floyd

Yeah I agree. I didn't mean Floyd IS the selling point for the fight, but from his point of view, Hatton fans want to see their boy against PBF more than any previous Hatton fight because of his status. They're not interested in Floyd as a fighter, why would they be? He's dull as ****.

[sonofisis]

Floyd Joy Sinclair is about as popular as Aids in Africa.

And just as infamous and prevalent in households. Ricky is more like Malaria and most Africans are Malaria resistant.

[DURAN_IS_GOD]

Floyd's status is definitely selling the fight. The last few ppvs Floyd was in all went over 300,000 and we know what the last one did. Ricky's never even had a ppv and nobody in the states knows him. Floyd is definitely the draw. 20,000 fans is chump change compared to 2 million pay per views.

no your struggling to understand.... ricky has 20,000 fans travelling alone across the atlantic spending thousands of pounds... if this fight was in england i can guarantee floyd would struggle to get a 1000 fans across.

[DURAN_IS_GOD]

Yeah I agree. I didn't mean Floyd IS the selling point for the fight, but from his point of view, Hatton fans want to see their boy against PBF more than any previous Hatton fight because of his status. They're not interested in Floyd as a fighter, why would they be? He's dull as ****.

yeah agreed mate, we both make good points!!! lol

[sonofisis]

LMAO @ everybody constantly talking about those deranged U.K. fans. Aside from them, the rest are American, so wtf? Most ppv buys will come from America as well as most of the tickets. Ricky has brought no money to boxing whatsoever.

[sonofisis]

no your struggling to understand....

No, you're struggling to understand that Americans wouldn't fly across the pond 20,000 deep for anybody. When has that ever happened with any American fighter?

The point is that is doesn't mean a thing when Ricky can't sell or make ppv. He's a hometown colosseum-type gladiator, not a mainstream entertainer or star attraction..

[TKO Tom]

Ellerbe likes performing oral on Floyd

What a raving sycophant Ellerbe is. I've never seen one man so in love with another in my life.

It's sickening when I think of it.

Floyd's fan base is small. Everyone knows it - except, I guess, Leonard Ellerbe, Floyd's *****.

[DURAN_IS_GOD]

LMAO @ everybody constantly talking about those deranged U.K. fans. Aside from them, the rest are American, so wtf? Most ppv buys will come from America as well as most of the tickets. Ricky has brought no money to boxing whatsoever.

proportionally rickys popularity in britain is FAR greater than that of floyds in america. either way you look at it, to have 20,000 fans travelling just before xmas is pretty dam impressive and its good for boxing

[Easy-E]

If you replace mayweather with Cotto, the overwhelming majority of those fans will still make the trip. If you replace Hatton with Cotto just about none of those fans make the trip, although other fans would buy the tickets. My point is they are coming to see hatton, the factthat he fights floyd plays a part, but doesn't change the ultimate fact, Ellerbe is a dumb ass.

Based on....
oh yea...nothing!