Mayweather-Marquez Falls Short With The Gate

[UncleSam]

I was at the fight and there is no way there were 3,000 empty seats. When the main event started I thought to myself, there is only about 100 empty seats in the house. I too was expecting about 12,000 but it was almost full. As soon as i get the pictures on the computer I will post them on here. I do not believe at all that the attendence was 13K.

ah duh you forgot they gave away the tickets for free once they realize it wont be sold out IDIOT

[Bhopreign]

13,000 people paid to see this fight, thats a success.

[EL ANIMAL]

mayweather's next fight will be against mosley or the winner of pac/cotto. Is that enough of a step up for you or is mosley the only step up because pac is too small and cotto has been in too many wars? And if he beats mosley, will you not consider that a step up because mosley was over the hill (not now, but he will suddenly be after the mayweather fight)?

If you look at mayweather's last five opponents, including marquez, and compare it to cotto's, pac's or shane mosley's last five, an objective observer will see that mayweather has fought higher rated competition (based on the pound-for-pound and division ratings) than all of these guys. The only boxer whose resume over his last five fights compares to mayweather is....wait for it haters.......juan manuel marquez!!!

i am one who thinks floyd should fight mosley and i will be rooting for mosley,, but if he losses i guarantee i wont be leaving messages on boxingscene talking bout he beat an over the hill fighter . I guarantee that. I just wanna see great fights and thats one of those fights. This fight has been bewing for quiet sometime. I wont say mosley is over the hill cause of the way he destroyed margarito,,, that would definitly make me a hypocrite.

[EL ANIMAL]

One person who i can diff say was over the hill was dela-hoya,,, come on guys dela-hoya didnt wanna fight after the bernard ko,,, or was it the singing carrer??? Not to put floyds win down but its true come on!!!

[rizkybizness]

official numbers came out minutes ago, it did 314 million buys in the us alone, some reports are saying close to a billion buys in india and pakistan combined. No word on how well it did in afghanistan, but rumors are floyd has a huge following there.

lmfaooooooooooooooo

[FLY TY]

Um, no.

People though that this fight would be the biggest since De La Hoya-Mayweather. HBO execs were on TV stating that this would shatter all records.


What are you talking about?

who the hell thought THIS fight was shattering records? ppl think mayweather-pacman will shatter records...

Agreed, I heard that HBo wanted 500k as a baseline to cover expences and promotion and more than that is a good result, 1 million is an excellent sell given the current climate.

1 million is unbelievable...for a fight ppl said would do around 4-600000...

To put the gate into perspective.....

Hatton-Pacquiao: 8.8 mil

Delahoya - Mayorga: 7.6 mil

Trinidad-vargas: 7.4 mil

Mayweather-Marquez: 6.8 mil

The attendance was significantly higher than Cotto-Margarito. And over 90% of tickets sold at face value. In all, it did better than I expected it would.

tell 'em...

pac/cotto already sold out... pbf/jmm has seats left over.

the live gate is only half the story....boxing ppv's make the most revenue from PPV's....only a certain amount of tickets go on sale to the public, in the first place....tickets are usually held for sponsors, guests, etc...so while the gate counts, its not the biggest indicator of whether a fight is a success or not....given the current state of the country, i'm sure not as many ppl are traveling to vegas....fights or otherwise.

and the p4p king maybe had %20 of them as his fans.. so this lousy sales will be blamed on marquez.. i can see money already saying that!!

without realizing it's actually cause of marquez and the mex. independance day that it did this good.. i say 23ppv buys credited to foney.. the rest marquz! FACT!

what idiots like you don't realize is that floyd just wants to draw interest....based on the way he acts, i dont think its unreasonable to suggest he probably tries harder to make ppl hate him, than like him. dude obviously doesn't care whether you show up or view to see him win, or lose, as long as you show up, or view.....so, if you watched the fight, you fell into the trap either way. if 80% of the gate was marquez fans, that's excellent for floyd, given that 80% of the crowd, actually showed up and bought tickets, thinking marquez had a chance....

Twist it however you wish, but after 6 months of promotion and moving it to Mexican Independence weekend (with arguably the greatest Mexican fighter today being a part of it) not selling out the place - not by 20 tickets but by over 2000 - is a failure. Wait until the end of the week to get the PPV numbers and you'll see that the self-proclaimed "biggest attraction in boxing" failed to live up to his own words. Which is a pity because it's a win-win for us fans when anybody, not just Floyd, does good numbers.

I did watch it at a movie theater in St. Louis, MO and the place was packed.

i saw it at the movies too....i got there early, and it was empty for the most part....i was like "****, this **** is gonna flop BIGTIME......" by the time the john-juarez fight ended, there were ppl sitting on the floor in the isles....

Probably 9,000 of the audience were Marquez fans/supporters. Marquez did his part. The 3,000 people that came for Mayweather were just people he owes money to that were trying to collect.

like i posted above.....of you're a marquez fan and you paid for tickets, thinking he had a chance to win...you fell into the trap....who gives a **** who was in the audience supporting who? all parties involved just wanted you to show up....

if mayweather would ever challenge a middle weight all blacks would see the same thing.mayweather should have never been counted as pound 4 pound in the first place.i hear he wants to challenge calderon to see whos
the real ponud 4 pound king..

he did...his name was oscar dlh.....

um you're wrong... the same thing would not have happend.....when Castillo/Corrales fought for the second time and Castillo didnt kill himself to make the weight..he KO'd Corrales..early in the fight with one shot

you just have more power, energy and stamina when you dont have to lose those extra pounds....would Floyd still have won? SURE....he was fighting a LW for crying out loud....

but he may have not dominate or been able to take some shots as well as he did on Sat..

wrong.....mayweather's team didn't approach marquez's team "the day of" the fight....they approached them at least 3 days before about the weight issue. only an idiot would think losing 2 pounds in 3 days changes the course of the fight.....if anything, it was a marketing tacting to get idiots saying, "floyd is having weight issues." so they buy the fight thinking marquez has a chance.

fact is, i got ppl i work with that take ****in' diet pills, and lose more than 2 pounds in 3 days.

I say 13k PPL is not bad, and 1mil+ buys??? this was not a failure at all

1 million is not bad??? like i said before, IF reports are accurate, and this fight did 1 million or more in ppv buys, not only did this fight sell more than pacman-jmm I & II combined, i guarantee this **** outsells pacman-cotto too....

wanna get a feel for how good 1 million + ppv buys are? do some research and see how many fights do those kind of numbers.....

**** the live gate, if this **** did over a million buys, the ****in audience in the arena could've been empty and this would be considered an OVERWHELMING success.

i am one who thinks floyd should fight mosley and i will be rooting for mosley,, but if he losses i guarantee i wont be leaving messages on boxingscene talking bout he beat an over the hill fighter . I guarantee that. I just wanna see great fights and thats one of those fights. This fight has been bewing for quiet sometime. I wont say mosley is over the hill cause of the way he destroyed margarito,,, that would definitly make me a hypocrite.

he tried to fight mosley more than once in the past.....**** shane mosley.

[ELPacman]

It makes me wonder why the **** they always hype up the worst possible matchups, then when we get actual great fights that can draw more people into boxing, they do below expectations. Imagine Cotto-Margarito got the same treatment that this recent scam got? Remember all the hype Floyd-Oscar got? "World Awaits". Yeah right, we awaited one of the worst matchups remembered. Oh yeah and both of these co-starred Floyd, man can he sell crap.

[jetgeomcx]

the gate receipts is already a success by itself.....majority expected less.
but the promoters are "a bit" disappointed, considering what they have (overly)done to sell the fyt.
the ppv is where the bulk of the income comes.
baseline, imo, is at 500K buys.
over or less spells success or flop.
gross and net proceeds should be ppositive counting the cinema sales.
one poster said it was full pack where he watched...should be in others as well.

[andrew14]

JMM vs Pacman is better than JMM vs PBF ahahahaahah!!!!

PBF is a noob draw!!! he got only numbers coz of ODLH and Hattons 0 loss and a

heck of a couuntrymen he got...

PBF cant hype a fight with JMM.

[TxHustla]

Bringing in over 13,000 peeps to an arena that holds around 16,000 isn't all that bad.

Juan Diaz vs Michael Katsidis did over 13K in Houston...

To put the gate into perspective.....

Hatton-Pacquiao: 8.8 mil

Delahoya - Mayorga: 7.6 mil

Trinidad-vargas: 7.4 mil

Mayweather-Marquez: 6.8 mil

The attendance was significantly higher than Cotto-Margarito. And over 90% of tickets sold at face value. In all, it did better than I expected it would.

SHOW ME WHERE U GOT THESE #'S FROM......

Sangre,

You know that the May/Marq fight sold way more tickets than Cotto-margarito.....right?

WAY.

SHOW ME WHERE U GOT THESE NUMBERS..