If PPV sales are what matter, why...

[Fox McCloud]

all the excuses people are giving for hatton were POST mayweather. he didnt bring 30K people against Castillo or anyone else prior to the floyd fight.

Well I personally thought the first Hatton fight was a good legacy fight.

The second one needs a tremendous amount of money to justify it though... god, I mean Mayweather wiped him the **** out, badly, and they are talking rematch? Why... seriously?

[pesticid]

Speaking of foreign PPVs, if you add the foreign PPVs to boxing's overall PPVs, boxing probably has more PPVs than UFC. Anybody knows what I am talking about?

[neils7147933]

is Ricky Hatton a bigger draw than Cotto?

Really, Hatton has had one PPV, and he wasn't the attraction of it. It was his first PPV, and Floyd's 5th.

Cotto already has had two... in which he was the star in one, for sure (unless some idiot really believes that Zab "losing streak" Judah is still the PPV draw).

So honestly, what is the excuse going to be after Cotto beats Margarito and after Mayweather beats Oscar if they don't fight?

There is no one around the 147 weight class who is a PPV draw other than Cotto.

I bought Hatton vs. Maussa on US PPV...

But Hatton's been selling PPVs outside the US prior to that though too

[SkillspayBills]

Na, he only brought 10,000 over to Vegas for the Castillo fight.

It's not good enough.

I don't know what it is but Floyd turns very good posters into complete jokes. I'm saddened that it happened to a good e-friend of mine as well.

[Fox McCloud]

I don't know what it is but Floyd turns very good posters into complete jokes. I'm saddened that it happened to a good e-friend of mine as well.

I hope that's not about me...

I don't think I'm a joke when I talk about Floyd, but maybe that is the perception.

[Xplosivo]

I don't know what it is but Floyd turns very good posters into complete jokes. I'm saddened that it happened to a good e-friend of mine as well.

i guess some delusional posters were alone on this:

http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=185342

[Gonzalez_Boxing]

Except Hatton sells out crowds of 56,000. He has fans that travel across the ocean for him, and he's very marketable with the 24/7 series (Nice guy, little bit ****y, has pride, nation resting on his shoulders, family man, devoted, witty, funny, etc).

edit: Oh and Ricky is somewhat of a bigger draw. Ricky had 281, 000 views in the afternoon on Saturday and Cotto-Gomez (along with Cintron-Margarito) only did a little more then that at night.

Granted Versus is free, but a lot of people have HBO too.

I posted this on another thread, the rating between Cotto/Gomez did way more than Hatton/Lazcano.

A single national ratings point represents one percent of the total number, or 1,128,000 households for the 2006-07 season.

His last outing against Alfonso Gomez in Atlantic City did one of the lowest ratings ever (2.1) for an HBO World Championship Boxing telecast.

Cotto = 2,368,800

Hatton = 281,000

[jmah]

I posted this on another thread, the rating between Cotto/Gomez did way more than Hatton/Lazcano.

A single national ratings point represents one percent of the total number, or 1,128,000 households for the 2006-07 season.

His last outing against Alfonso Gomez in Atlantic City did one of the lowest ratings ever (2.1) for an HBO World Championship Boxing telecast.

Cotto = 2,368,800

Hatton = 281,000

The 2.1 is a cable rating, which represents fewer households than a network rating.

Also 1 household does not equal 1 viewer.


Nielsen Ratings for Recent HBO Boxing Shows

Miguel Cotto vs. Alfonso Gomez - 1.113 Million Total Viewers

[warp1432]

Well 2,368,800 isn't that bad is it? Why is that considered low?

[Boofdatruth]

A true champion fights for pride anyway, not money.

How does it feel to defacate your reputation defending a money whoring fraud?

well, you aren't a champion...........so you don't know what you would fight for.............