the low ticket sells doesnt mean floyd isnt a draw

[M.I Truth ?]

The problem with this fight was coming back and trying to sell Floyd into a PPV "super fight"

It is just the buying public have short memories. Floyd is a good draw, but he needs momentum again. People also want to see him in a risky fight.

I mean I normally don't make excuses for Floyd, as he dug this hole himself. Goldenboy should share the blame though. They went along with this ****** plan. Floyd should have taken a normal HBO fight against someone like Berto to rekindle the public's memory. Trying to jump back into PPV's is just silly.

It is all about greed. They all should have known his stock would be lowered.

pretty much there is to it dean....in a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately sport, you just dont pick up where you left off...create a buzz first

Good Points.

[Sin City]

to be fair. those tickets were cheap as ***. I almost went to it and decided to just go to a angels game instead. The tickets for may/jmm were outreagously high.

the reason they had cheaper tickets was because it was at a much bigger venue with a lot more seats.
there were still 150, 300, all the way to thousand dollar tickets for the De La Hoya fight.
& even those sold too!
That is no excuse.

[BoxingChaos]

I wanted to see this fight and I am not a Floyd fan.

The TRUTH is, Floyd does not have any real fans like Hatton or Gatti or ODLH. These three guys mentioned could be fighting a circus clown and people will turn out to watch them fight.

The only reason people would turn out to see Floyd fight is because they think that he might lose. I bet had he faced Margarito, the tickets would have sold BIG TIME no matter what Floyd says, Cotto would have generated interest, Mosley would have generated interest but Floyd always has to relie on other peoples fans and none of his own because he aint got a hard core base. I know he has a bunch of nuthuggers but these are broke ass clowns who aint got no money, the rest are children who still live with mommy and are broke too cus they aint got no real job.

[deanrw]

the thing GBP screwed up on was offering mosley for 8mil, then offering like 12-14 mil for a marquez fight, that just puzzled me.

Yeah that was strange. They should have stipulated right away. 2+ million for the first fight. Then we will talk about big paydays. Now they are stuck with a giant lemon of a fight, that cost about 25 million to put together and they will be lucky to recoup half of that.

Now you know why the president of Goldenboy is suddenly pushing for a Mosley/Manny fight. The other megafight is a megaflop that may not even happen now.

[xcaret]

marquez is better off without mayweather

[dog1dog2]

Originally Posted by ~Tunney
Two things to consider:

1. The time of the year
2. The state of the economy. There are hotels closing down on the Las Vegas strip because of lack of business.

There are no Hotels closing down worth mentioning in Vegas because people are STILL ******** and spending money. Think about how much money these hotels make during a weekend fight, AND it's Boxing's supposed biggest draw in Mayweather?

Cotto vs Clottey sold over 17,000 tickets and was already at 11,000 a month before the fight itself.

I think it's more of a case of people not buying into the bull**** anymore.

Exactly. There have been no major hotel closings in Vegas beyond it's normal pattern (constant turnover of strip hotels).

[skullduggery]

it doesnt matter. i just wanna see floyd back in action soon

[BMWM3P]

it doesnt matter. i just wanna see floyd back in action soon

Looking at his ticket sales, apparently you are one of the few.

[tjose385]

ppv..that was a ******ed idea..regular hbo wouldve been fine

that still has nothing to do with his horrible ticket sales...................lol.....................PB F is putting up chad dawson numbers!!

[Tha_Greatest]

it just means people weren't buying this fight becasue they felt it was bull****..i think the pressure has been put on floyd to perform now and fight a genuine challenge.people arnt gonna pay to see floyd knock out jmm..i think floyd realized that and will scap the entire fight..something is happenng behind the scenes .

fans of floyd of the mayweather mafia wont attend this ****in fight as well, mayweather mafia members are all former roy jones fans who went off roys bandwagon as soon as roy ****in lost, LOL,nyahahaha this is another embarassing day for floyd and the mayweather mafia, LOL,nyahahaha,



thanks for this hilarious thread, LOL