Mayweather vs. Pacquiao is NOT The Plan, Says Arum

[PRPP]

Imo as big as Cotto is in new york and pr i dont think he carry a ppv fight like Hatton, and Oscar he needs a i star to help. To be honest i dont think a Cotto vs Pac fight would draw in causal fans. Sometime in boxing you need a guy in there to hate and floyd would be that guy and a fight with pacman would sell more that a cotto vs pacman fight imo.

Mamao, I didn't say Cotto can out sell De la Rosa or Hatton but he can out sell mayweather, IMO.

[big_james10]

[QUOTE=methyleneDMA;4968452]Bob Arum just has no shame in his game. He lies as easily as he breathes. Im no floyd fan but there is no fight out there in boxing bigger than Floyd vs Pac. NONE.

THE FIGHT DOES A MINIMUM 3 MILLION PPVS.....MINIMUM.

U can say all u want about floyd, but his ppv numbers dont lie, 2.4 mill vs oscar biggest in history, 800k vs hatton, before that he averages around 500-400k fighting bums like judah & baldomir. Imagine what will happen when he fights a legitimate superstar who also happens to have a superstar fanbase.

I dont know what arum's angle or reasoning for saying such a bold face lie. No fight out there is bigger than pac vs floyd. Only way the fight goes to **** is if floyd loses/looks bad in his tune up outing.[/QUOT

I agree with most of what you said. One correction, though. Mayweather-Hatton did 800,000 in the U.S. It did 1.4 million in England, bringing the total to 2.2 million worldwide.

[Deja_Vous]

and still a fight with cotto and pacman is better in excitement and would give more money to the fighters because they dont got to split between promoters and everyone else involved

Manny doesn't need Cotto's recently KTFO ass.

[Deja_Vous]

How many mayweather fans bopught mayweathers last fight? and i dont mean hatton

Hatton was Mayweather's last fight donkey.

Floyd made more playing around with the Big Show than Cotto has ever earned.

[FUC_U_PAYME]

Mamao, I didn't say Cotto can out sell De la Rosa or Hatton but he can out sell mayweather, IMO.

i no you didn say he can't out sell those guys but a fight with cott o vs pac wont sell as much as a floyd vs apc fight right now because you would have the fromer #1 fight vs the current #1 fighter both in the primes and look at ever thread with floyds name gets like 500 replies plus so many people want to see him lose. think about this if he would lose this place would be crazy with the **** talking about that fight.

[Dave Rado]

LMAO!

So you mean those who saw Floyd prancing his way in "Dancing With The Stars" will drop whatever they're doing and buy his fight on PPV?

You're really delusional if you think that when more people have heard of a boxer - doesn't matter what the reason - that doesn't mean that some of those people aren't more likely to tune into his fights. We're talking about casual fans, not hardcore boxing fans.

Ali became a really huge draw only after everyone had heard of him because of his stance against the Vietnam war. Doesn't matter why everyone had heard of him, the fact is that if everyone has heard of someone, they are more likely to tune into into their fights. That's how any business works.

Hatton has such a big following in the UK because he goes on speaking tours and makes a lot of jokes, and people like his personality, and then they tune into his fights, not because they know anything about boxing but because they like the man.

[fdotorres]

i get what your saying but pac and floyd are actually around the same weight where as hopkins was a descent amount bigger than kelly pavlik and size wise looks great at light heavy, so thats why that fight would never happen.

same weight?!?!!

pac is 135 pounder at the most. floyd is a 147. 12 pound difference

how about they make a catch weight at 160 and put floyd against bernard? it's only a 13 pound difference, plus bernard would be weight drained!

seriously, stop the lame theories. pac will get slaughtered by any fast WW. if he intends to get killed, then at least get killed while producing an entertaining fight

[BoriKua305]

How many mayweather fans bopught mayweathers last fight? and i dont mean hatton

idk what u guys talkin bout ppv buys mayweather vs baldomir sold 325,000 PPV buys, and agaisnt judah 375,000 cotto vs margarito did over 450 thousand buys and as well as against mosley did 400 k buys. so before hatton and dlh mayweather wasnt selling all that either. I bet if cotto got to fight dlh or hatton theyd sell just as well 2.

[BoriKua305]

Hatton was Mayweather's last fight donkey.

Floyd made more playing around with the Big Show than Cotto has ever earned.

no it was bigshow dumb **** hahaha

[BoriKua305]

Manny doesn't need Cotto's recently KTFO ass.

manny really doesnt need a retiredc ***** that runs from the best opponent u bu8rntn piece of **** and id say that to ur face if you were here 2 ***** we dont paly here in miau internet thug