Apparently only 3 boxers are a box office draw in America

[Vadrigar.]

The guy in your sig (Benavidez) might have the talent and skill to be that type of fighter.

He has a tommy hears style frame. Built for power.......

[mariobrotherpr]

Major sports...In no order
Soccer
Football
Baseball
Basketball
Golf
Tennis
Track and Field

Those are the top sports. Of them all the majority of the best players/teams/athlethes are american and most of the top players in their respective sport are american except soccer.

Prove me wrong or stfu.kthnxbyebye.

Where's cricket? Isn't cricket the world's #2 most popular sport?

[mariobrotherpr]

And I agree with the OP.

Ticket sellers in US:

1. May
2. Pac
3. Cotto


Watch for Chávez Jr. if he keeps winning against at least good opposition.

[eli porter]

Major sports...In no order
Soccer
Football
Baseball
Basketball
Golf
Tennis
Track and Field

Those are the top sports. Of them all the majority of the best players/teams/athlethes are american and most of the top players in their respective sport are american except soccer.

Prove me wrong or stfu.kthnxbyebye.

Didn't know federer and nadal were american...

the ones which are dominated by america are american sports. Athletics is different but it's also rubbish and no one cares about it.

[revs1227]

ummm hatton sells out anything anywhere
pavlik has a following
so does mallinaggi
and juanma and hopkins
do you even go to fights?

[#1Assassin]

ummm hatton sells out anything anywhere
pavlik has a following
so does mallinaggi
and juanma and hopkins
do you even go to fights?

hatton isnt fighting again. malignaggi sells out in NYC, and even that is questionable now after his last loss. juanma sells out in PR, and given the oponent possibly somewhere else, but hes not bringing in huge numbers. hopkins has a big following but hes never been the guy to sell out big arenas, his oponents were. tito, DLH, pavlik etc speaking of pavlik i doubt his following will be big outside of ohio following his last loss.

the thing is alot of legends are at the end of their careers, or ended their careers recently. but there are lots of up and coming young guys who are ready to take over.

[Vadrigar.]

hatton isnt fighting again. malignaggi sells out in NYC, and even that is questionable now after his last loss. juanma sells out in PR, and given the oponent possibly somewhere else, but hes not bringing in huge numbers. hopkins has a big following but hes never been the guy to sell out big arenas, his oponents were. tito, DLH, pavlik etc speaking of pavlik i doubt his following will be big outside of ohio following his last loss.

the thing is alot of legends are at the end of their careers, or ended their careers recently. but there are lots of up and coming young guys who are ready to take over.

That's the point. DLH wasn't even on the p4p list when he fought Hopkins, yet he was the much bigger draw in the fight. I think Floyd has a good argument here.

[Vito Corleone]

And only 1 of them is American. It seems that Cotto, Pacquiao, and Mayweather are the only 3 guys that can attract an audience in America. Everyone else seems to come up well short of these 3. Ward is thought to be a good draw, but his fight against Green was almost called off because of slow ticket sales. Outside of the big 3, no one else seems to be able to crack the 10,000 mark in paid attendance. Arreaola and Vitali had about 7,600 in paid attendance, Williams vs. Cintron had a little over 2,000, and Berto vs. Quintana had a little under 1,000 in paid atttendance.

Compare these numbers to the big 3. Cotto's last fight had an announced paid attendance of a little over 22,000(this may be inaccurate as no official numbers have been released). The live gate on that fight was estimated to be around $3M. Pacquiao's fight against Clottey had a little over 36,000 in paid attendance(41k total showed up). The live gate on that fight was a little over $6.5M. So those two fights did almost 60,000 in paid attendance and brought in almost $10M at the gate. Mayweather's fight against Mosley was in a much smaller venue, but had excellent numbers. The paid attendance was a little over 14K(still almost twice as much as any other fight not involving Mayweather, Pac, or Cotto in the U.S). However, despite having a crowd about 1/4 the combined size of Cotto and Pac's most recent fights, the live gate actually was higher than both those fights combined pulling in a little over $11M.

So there's good news and bad news. The good news is that whether in a casino or a large venue; Cotto, Pac, and Mayweather have shown that boxing can generate large dollars in America. The bad news is that everyone else outside these 3 have failed to prove they can bring in big money anywhere in America. Will the tide ever turn in the U.S?

Here's a link to the article where I got the figures;

http://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/article/65987

80 posts per day, dude? Really?

[Ray*]

And the funniest thing is people make silly excuses about how american fighter have an advantage in selling PPV, Here we have 2 foreigner who basically are in the top 3 of the bestsellers in boxing, I dont really want to hear that excuse anymore about 2 american fighters fighting each other..

[Vadrigar.]

And the funniest thing is people make silly excuses about how american fighter have an advantage in selling PPV, Here we have 2 foreigner who basically are in the top 3 of the bestsellers in boxing, I dont really want to hear that excuse anymore about 2 american fighters fighting each other..

Spot on.