its early august. pac is scheduled to fight in november. that is definitive. pac vs margo is not signed yet. i have yet to see a single promotional item on pac vs margarito.
so how can you not have enough time to sign up & promote pac vs floyd but have enough time to promote & sign pac vs margarito?
if the fight can get made before the end of next week, its more than enough time to promote the fight.
nothing is happening right now. no nba, no nfl, no world cup, no tennis major, college football no nothing. its the stretch run of mlb season. the most boring time of the sports calendar.
if the announce the fight some time between now & next week, they would totally own the headlines.
It's not like they're fighting in a month. Mayweather-Mosley was announced on January 30th, which left for 3 months of promotion, and it did 1.4 million buys. Hell, Ali-Frazier didn't get announced until December 1969 and they fought in March of 1970. Three months of buildup.
You could argue that the first two rounds of negotiations were one long (and annoying) publicity tour. Those negotiations got more publicity than ANY boxing event since De La Hoya-Mayweather.
This isn't a fight that needs a six month promotion. This isn't the 1970s. They don't need a nationwide tour like the old days. All they need is Floyd to provide soundbites every week on SportsCenter and video footage of Manny Pacquiao heading from Congress to the boxing gym. ESPN will include any news about the fight in every edition of SportsCenter. It's going to get the cover of every sports magazine out there. Ross Greenburg already has plans of adding an extra episode of 24/7 and even extending the pre-fight episode to 1 hour.
A deal has to get done relatively quickly for 11/13. But there's plenty of time to promote and promote well.
It's not like they're fighting in a month. Mayweather-Mosley was announced on January 30th, which left for 3 months of promotion, and it did 1.4 million buys. Hell, Ali-Frazier didn't get announced until December 1969 and they fought in March of 1970. Three months of buildup.
You could argue that the first two rounds of negotiations were one long (and annoying) publicity tour. Those negotiations got more publicity than ANY boxing event since De La Hoya-Mayweather.
This isn't a fight that needs a six month promotion. This isn't the 1970s. They don't need a nationwide tour like the old days. All they need is Floyd to provide soundbites every week on SportsCenter and video footage of Manny Pacquiao heading from Congress to the boxing gym. ESPN will include any news about the fight in every edition of SportsCenter. It's going to get the cover of every sports magazine out there. Ross Greenburg already has plans of adding an extra episode of 24/7 and even extending the pre-fight episode to 1 hour.
A deal has to get done relatively quickly for 11/13. But there's plenty of time to promote and promote well.
It's not like they're fighting in a month. Mayweather-Mosley was announced on January 30th, which left for 3 months of promotion, and it did 1.4 million buys. Hell, Ali-Frazier didn't get announced until December 1969 and they fought in March of 1970. Three months of buildup.
You could argue that the first two rounds of negotiations were one long (and annoying) publicity tour. Those negotiations got more publicity than ANY boxing event since De La Hoya-Mayweather.
This isn't a fight that needs a six month promotion. This isn't the 1970s. They don't need a nationwide tour like the old days. All they need is Floyd to provide soundbites every week on SportsCenter and video footage of Manny Pacquiao heading from Congress to the boxing gym. ESPN will include any news about the fight in every edition of SportsCenter. It's going to get the cover of every sports magazine out there. Ross Greenburg already has plans of adding an extra episode of 24/7 and even extending the pre-fight episode to 1 hour.
A deal has to get done relatively quickly for 11/13. But there's plenty of time to promote and promote well.
This fight does 2 Million buys easily. Its literally one of the biggest fights ever.
can you imagine if there was a brawl in a press tour or weigh in? Imagine floyd pushing pac's face a la hopkins on winky wright, then pac going mike tyson vs lennox lewis & biting floyd's leg or something.
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