Simple reasons why PBF is bigger draw than PAQ.

[fcastro1]

people like to see exciting fights, but at a high level.

[silip03]

hatton and dela hoya is the bigger draw not pbf. PBF is Leeching on hatton and dela hoya. he recently postponed his fight with JMM due to low ticket sell ok.

[Ravishing]

For one to say PBF is not a draw or is a less of a draw than say Cotto or Paq is absurd. Just look at this:


PBF vs DLH
2.4 million buys
Highest Revenue for a Single Pay-Per-View Event
New Record: $120.0 million for the May 5, 2007
Oscar De La Hoya - Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight.

Thats roughly 600k more buys than DLH next highest grossing fight, Which was Trininadad. 1.5 million more than Mosley and 1 million more than his fight with BHOP.

DLH vs PAQ
1.25 million PPV buys
On December 10, 2008, HBO announced that the fight generated totaling more than $70 million in PPV revenue

Thats 1.2 million less buys and 50 million dollars less in gate revenue. If PAQ is so much a bigger draw than PBF then why did this fight barely produce half of the PBF vs DLH fight?


Now think about this, Which would you rather see?
Your favorite team in a almost sure victory? Or , would you rather see the team you hate the most against an opponent that they might lose to and end thier undefeated season?

Chances are you will pick the latter. This is what makes PBF a bigger draw than anybody fighting as of right now.

The last few years have shown a trend, If there is a fighter that seems to have a chance to be able to defeat PBF, his fan base boostes.

I.E.: In the PBF vs DLH fight you had 3 main group following the fight.

Obviously DLH's huge fan base- the reason he is the PPV king.


PBF's moderately large fan base- I would estimate its about the same as cotto maybe smaller.

And the last group is the one that makes PBF's, money, fame and hate
People who watch his fights just to see him lose.

If you add PBF's own fan base along with the people who hate him and will pick anyone he fights against to beat him and want to se him lose. Then PBF is certainly a larger draw than anybody fighting as of now.

Right now alot of the people who want to see PBF lose to JMM proably never supported or watched a JMM before they just want to see PBF lose. Logiically if you look at all of these factors PBF is at the least slightly a larger draw than PAQ.

I disagree

If you check the ticket sales for the JMM vs PBF fight, you'd see nobody was buying into it. They need more time to come up with a better game plan to sell the fight, so why not be "injured" for a little bit to try again at generating another buzz?

Oscar sold out arenas fighting ham and eggers. Pacquiao's last 2 victories trump anything Floyd's done in the last few years simply off his dominance. People want to see action, and they get that with a Pacquiao fight...not so much a Floyd fight.

Check Floyd's PPV buys before Oscar. They were very laughable considering he screams he's this big draw.

[talip bin osman]

For one to say PBF is not a draw or is a less of a draw than say Cotto or Paq is absurd. Just look at this:


PBF vs DLH
2.4 million buys
Highest Revenue for a Single Pay-Per-View Event
New Record: $120.0 million for the May 5, 2007
Oscar De La Hoya - Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight.

Thats roughly 600k more buys than DLH next highest grossing fight, Which was Trininadad. 1.5 million more than Mosley and 1 million more than his fight with BHOP.

DLH vs PAQ
1.25 million PPV buys
On December 10, 2008, HBO announced that the fight generated totaling more than $70 million in PPV revenue

Thats 1.2 million less buys and 50 million dollars less in gate revenue. If PAQ is so much a bigger draw than PBF then why did this fight barely produce half of the PBF vs DLH fight?


Now think about this, Which would you rather see?
Your favorite team in a almost sure victory? Or , would you rather see the team you hate the most against an opponent that they might lose to and end thier undefeated season?

Chances are you will pick the latter. This is what makes PBF a bigger draw than anybody fighting as of right now.

The last few years have shown a trend, If there is a fighter that seems to have a chance to be able to defeat PBF, his fan base boostes.

I.E.: In the PBF vs DLH fight you had 3 main group following the fight.

Obviously DLH's huge fan base- the reason he is the PPV king.


PBF's moderately large fan base- I would estimate its about the same as cotto maybe smaller.

And the last group is the one that makes PBF's, money, fame and hate
People who watch his fights just to see him lose.

If you add PBF's own fan base along with the people who hate him and will pick anyone he fights against to beat him and want to se him lose. Then PBF is certainly a larger draw than anybody fighting as of now.

Right now alot of the people who want to see PBF lose to JMM proably never supported or watched a JMM before they just want to see PBF lose. Logiically if you look at all of these factors PBF is at the least slightly a larger draw than PAQ.

horus through & through...

[emokillss]

pacman and mayweather is both a drawer in boxing,
people love to see hero vs villain
so what if mayweather is from us is that means he draw massive audience, but pacman draw almost our entire nation look at those ****** politicians following him in every fight.....

[mikelovesfood]

what the **** does them being american have anyting to do with anything?

it doesnt. how many american boxers go their whole careers and never get big. tons. more than those who end up getting big.

so come one with the dumb american boxer BS

To the active avid boxing fan its not much because he's in the boxing community watching all the fights small and big. To the casual fan who watches rarely and only when its a huge fight yes, it makes a total difference.

To get to the point, Marketability. ATM PBF had more marketability than Pac did. Many factors come into play. That he's had much more public exposure to mainstream media, ha, even that fact that he speaks fluent english helps him.

Truthfully I'm sick of arguing about this topic. Im just a fan of all boxing just like anyone else here.

[arargh]

what the **** does them being american have anyting to do with anything?

because americans neither care or know alot about foreign boxers. im talkin about mainstream fans.

it doesnt. how many american boxers go their whole careers and never get big. tons. more than those who end up getting big.

non-american boxers never make it big at all. lennox lewis for example was virtually unknown for mainstream americans fans and he never got respect from americans either. pacquiao probably won't get respect or mainstream popularity either in the usa.

[rj_ct]

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