Miguel Cotto-Antonio Margarito is Starting Strong

[javelin_fangs]

I didn't really have any doubts that the card would sell out and that they'd be a great atmosphere in the arena. I think the real challenge is to get 400,000-500,000+ PPV buys. Margarito has never been on PPV and Cotto didn't quite get to 400,000 buys against Mosley, who's been on some successfull PPVs before.

Before you Margarito and Cotto fans get all pissed off, I'm not saying it won't get there. I'm saying we won't know how big of a crossover event it's going to be until we see the PPV numbers. If it hits 500,000 I bet Mayweather fights the winner by spring 2009.

[S.W.F.C]

Roll on July

[QUISQUEYA]

I didn't really have any doubts that the card would sell out and that they'd be a great atmosphere in the arena. I think the real challenge is to get 400,000-500,000+ PPV buys. Margarito has never been on PPV and Cotto didn't quite get to 400,000 buys against Mosley, who's been on some successfull PPVs before.

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If I were a betting man (and I am), I say that this fight doesn't do as much as Pac's Mexican fights. Despite being smaller guys, i do not think Tony has as much commercial appeal within the Mex community as Erik and MAB. Plus, this economy will limit some buys.

Side note: industry reports have Cotto-Mosley NOWHERE NEAR 400K. That was an Arum number.

When a fight does 350K-ish, HBO will publish that number. The Cotto buys went unpublished because they were disappointing. Hence, the reason his next fight was a WCB event with Marg on the card.

Cotto has had three consecutive disappointing PPV's, and his WCB ratings were very low.

[ferocity]

theirs gonna be alot crying mexicans on july 27;with 6k ricans coming from the island and not counting the ones coming from the east coast,them P.R flags are gonna be flying high;and ussualy vegas knows best by having cotto as the favorite over that overrated mexican trash;all i got 2 say is put ur money where ur mouth is u f...ing *******s cause were gonna set that biatch on fire.......yeeee haaaaa andale andale andale whaaaaa whaaaaa and im the one with big P.R flag so when you see me,come holla @ me u f...ing punks!

LOL, go **** yourself. You see my Mexicans first thing you'll do is look at the floor as we walk by not even paying attention to your dumbass.

[ferocity]

hey if this really does sell out or anywhere close Mayweather really wont have any excuses about Cottos marketability....therefore make that ****in fight!!

Yup, Cotto v. Cotto should be good. Now that he's fighting himself we'll see if he can sell his fight by himself.

[lopez36]

let me say something about the person who says cotto will win because tony is overrated,boy you are giving that eye-brow waxer a lot of credit,jaja,,so that means that for the second straight fight he is fighting a bum,,what a champ he is.

[lopez36]

Those odds are pretty nice considering. Tickets are beautiful too.

this is for the person with the miguel angel lowblowcotto,,,can i use that imagae as my signature in another forum??

[steptwome]

I didn't really have any doubts that the card would sell out and that they'd be a great atmosphere in the arena. I think the real challenge is to get 400,000-500,000+ PPV buys. Margarito has never been on PPV and Cotto didn't quite get to 400,000 buys against Mosley, who's been on some successfull PPVs before.

Before you Margarito and Cotto fans get all pissed off, I'm not saying it won't get there. I'm saying we won't know how big of a crossover event it's going to be until we see the PPV numbers. If it hits 500,000 I bet Mayweather fights the winner by spring 2009.

...................cosign that

[deevel79]

Floyd's excuse of Cotto's lack of ppv drawing power is just plain silly if u think of it. Where was Baldomir's drawing power? Where was Judah's mega drawing power? Hatton has a huge fanbase, but he was not a proven ppv star prior to his fight with Floyd. Floyd says he's the face of boxing, and he single handidly sold over 2million ppv's in 07. If that's the case, why care about what Cotto brings in terms of drawing power?

[ml2niceguy]

yeah it is...hopefully cotto brings in some good ppv numbers so maybe mayweather will wanna fight