do you reckon if floyd vs clottey happend would they have dun over 1million ppv???

[$partacus]

Marquez only became big because of Pacquiao.. and he carried that success and elevated it by beating Juan Diaz. If you take Pacquiao out of the picture, that win over diaz(if he could have even gotten the fight without Pacquiao) wouldn't have meant anything, and he'd still be a nobody-just like the days when all eyes were on barrera and morales. And De La Hoya-Pacquiao seemed like a mismatched circus fight.. the majority of people didn't even take it seriously because De La Hoya always historically comes in big, and always historically outboxes small fighters, plus Pacquiao was a featherweight..

Even I thought it was a circus fight.. I thought on fight night De La Hoya would be 20 pounds heavier than Pacquiao and would use his reach, size and boxing skill to dominate him.

And let's not forget how Pacquiao's popularity and draw is growing every single year, every single fight.. while floyd's draw and popularity seems to have hit its peak against De La Hoya. So to compare Mayweather-Marquez to Pacquiao Marquez is just ignorant.

This month alone I've seen Pacquiao on Good Morning America, Jimmy Kimmel, America's best dance crew and MTV cribs... I've only seen Floyd at the Super Bowl.

If Mayweather hit his peak with De La Hoya then so did Pacquiaos because they are both fighters biggest PPV's. He was comparing Mayweather PPVs (pre DLH) with Pacquiao (post DLH) when neither was a massive draw until they faced DLH. Cotto was the draw when he faced Mosley, so when Mayweather/Mosley sells more than Pacquiao/Cotto that will be more evidence that Mayweather is a bigger draw.

[ummeed]

i reckon that they would have got it easy......

yep provided they postpone the fight due to injury to give more time for promotions., and move ghana next to the US, and and and convince a few thousands ghanians to immigrate to the US, and and and hold the fight during ghana independence day (if there isn't one yet, they need to make one first) ... oh and yeah make floyd retire for at least a year first so they can bill this fight as his return fight... again.

[DARKSEID]

If Mayweather hit his peak with De La Hoya then so did Pacquiaos because they are both fighters biggest PPV's. He was comparing Mayweather PPVs (pre DLH) with Pacquiao (post DLH) when neither was a massive draw until they faced DLH. Cotto was the draw when he faced Mosley, so when Mayweather/Mosley sells more than Pacquiao/Cotto that will be more evidence that Mayweather is a bigger draw.

I don't know what world you live in if you thought Pacquiao's peak was in 2008 when he fought De La Hoya. Before that, nobody knew Pacquiao except filipinos,mexicans and fight fans. Beating De La Hoya was what jump-started Pacquiao's success and pushed him into the mainstream.

Cotto was Pacquiao's highest money-making endeavor.. They both(compared to the DLH fight) sold 1.25 million, but the Cotto fight cost more to watch. And it's kinda unfair to compare a fight against the guy with the biggest draw and fanbase in the entire history of boxing(De La Hoya), with Cotto, so even if it cost the same, it still proves that Pacquiao's draw is growing.

[$partacus]

I don't know what world you live in if you thought Pacquiao's peak was in 2008 when he fought De La Hoya. Before that, nobody knew Pacquiao except filipinos,mexicans and fight fans. Beating De La Hoya was what jump-started Pacquiao's success and pushed him into the mainstream.

Cotto was Pacquiao's highest money-making endeavor.. They both(compared to the DLH fight) sold 1.25 million, but the Cotto fight cost more to watch. And it's kinda unfair to compare a fight against the guy with the biggest draw and fanbase in the entire history of boxing(De La Hoya), with Cotto, so even if it cost the same, it still proves that Pacquiao's draw is growing.

Same thing can be said about Mayweather, the only way to compare drawing power is from the PPV numbers and Mayweathers numbers against similar opponents are better than Pacquiaos, sorry but it is the truth. Mayweather-Mosley will sell more than any Pac PPV and Mosley isn't as big a draw as Cotto.

[bojangles1987]

Not if it had the same level of non-promotion Pac-Clottey did.

[statosteve]

Not if it had the same level of non-promotion Pac-Clottey did.

yes it would....just there names will sell this fight between ssm and pbf.....

[royjonessr]

I think it would have done maybe 500-600k ppv's, just a shade under Pac's numbers

People tune in to see Floyd lose and would they be convinced he'd lose against Clottey, whereas they tuned in to see Pac give an exciting fight (which he failed to give, altho that was Clottey's fault)

[Kilrain]

Floyd Vs. Baldomir 350,000
Floyd Vs. Hatton 850,000
Floyd Vs. Judah 350,000
uh let me see....Floyd vs Clottey 500 at the most.

Marquez and De La Hoya not counted do to the fact they are well known Elite fighters. Clottey has won one belt and has never been in a PPV fight.

Pacquiao > Mayweather

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i take it your another 1 of packys cocck hoppers?????