Who's the bigger draw? Mayweather or Pacquiao?

[QUISQUEYA]

True, not saying floyd cant draw because he can. If were talking US like i said i think its pretty close. I mean you got celebs wanting to meet pac, your got jones wanting to host a pac fight in dallas, you got the celtics rushing off after their game 7 to catch his fight. His excitement is growing. I'd like to see how pac draw vs. a non name now as another poster mentioned. I mean whatever Hatton/Pac drew I think anyone that bought that fight as a casual fan is going to want to watch Pac again.

Why is it that NO other news outlet reports that except the Manila paper. It's true because Arum said so?

[TintaBoricua]

Reminds me of someone...

Yeah, but Ali was much bigger than Floyd is today.

But I see your point. People don't wanna' miss Floyd getting knocked out whenever he has the chance to...

[sandyvahra]

As much as the bad guy villain role sells (floyd/tyson) so does the good guy (de la hoya) and so do the great talents of yesteryear who were just warriors like pac. granted no ppv back in the golden era, BUT they also carried boxing to the forefront of american sports. If they were fighting in today's PPV age they'd do phenomenal. Point being I think any number of styles can appeal to people & sell.

[Pullcounter]

With unofficial PPV buys for Pacquiao-Hatton out, I think a thread is in order..

Discuss.

both guys are the draw for different reasons.

not every can be the hero and not everyone can be the villian

[QUISQUEYA]

Floyd vs Oscar/Ricky : 3.4 mil

Manny vs Oscar/Ricky: 2.0 mil

Any questions?

[sandyvahra]

Why is it that NO other news outlet reports that except the Manila paper. It's true because Arum said so?

hey fair enough it may not be credible yet, but the rest of what i said is. bill clinton wanted to meet him, denzel came to his dressing room. walburg comes to the wildcard. i mean when's the last time you saw stuff like this? Pac dominated the headlines after his ko of hatton. it was on espn, etc. Bottom line it got a lot more attention than the result of a boxing fight has in a quite some time.

[The Gambler1981]

True, not saying floyd cant draw because he can. If were talking US like i said i think its pretty close. I mean you got celebs wanting to meet pac, your got jones wanting to host a pac fight in dallas, you got the celtics rushing off after their game 7 to catch his fight. His excitement is growing. I'd like to see how pac draw vs. a non name now as another poster mentioned. I mean whatever Hatton/Pac drew I think anyone that bought that fight as a casual fan is going to want to watch Pac again.

Yea I would say Pacman has the more traditional popularity, people like him and want to see him succeed. Floyd has people who like him also, but that is probably less then the people that like Pacman. Really though that is only a small part of people that Floyd gets to tune in. I never got why Floyd bothered people so much, he talk alot but he does nto really say anything worthwhile (hell I like Floyd and I know everything he says is basically full of ****), you would figure people would jsut tune him out but for some reason they can nto do that when it comes to him (he has a pretty good racket going though with it though).

Floyd's last fight was with Hatton aswell, and that was a pretty good fight that ended in pretty spectacular fashion also. People usually remember the last thing you did. So people who bought Floyd's last fight are fairly likely to watch again (atleast the first one back for sure).

[QUISQUEYA]

hey fair enough it may not be credible yet, but the rest of what i said is. .

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[Gutz]

Worldwide.... Manny

US even

[KnockMeOut]

Casual Fans were just intrigued at how Floyd fights so they bought his PPVs..but right now fans are tired of hearing bull****s without backing it up in the ring..i bet Floyd-JMM would not reach 400K PPVs

I got a feeling it will bro. Mexican fans+Floyd fans= >400k. Also its Floyd's comeback fight, people will wanna know if he still got it.