You will not believe the attendance for tonight's fight.

[gopi11]

The casual fans only knows 2 boxers, Pacman and Money...

[fightingfigs]

What a shame, this was on hbo for free and was better all around that the recent pac/marg ppv.

agreed. this was well worth skipping the first half of the bulls game

[Pacdbest]

So how you would compare the 4,000 plus attendance with that of Pacman's last fight at 41,000 plus?

What about the PPV?

Pac-cheato --1.1M PPV +, 41,000 live attendance,

Jmm-katz--- 0 ppv, 800k live tv audience, 4000 attendance

[Heru]

Pathetic. Marquez-Katsidis deserved a big audience, I hope the TV ratings at least will be high.

Only Mayweather and Pacquiao can draw over 10K to Las Vegas. Make that in Texas or California and Marquez will get a significant crowd.

JMM will have the highest HBO rating of 2010.

[starkiller]

Boxing is dying in America even when great fights are made.

[Heru]

why wouldnt we believe it?

did you see the attendance & ppv numbers for casamayor? it was abysmal. why do you think he has to fight juan diaz in houston?

marquez cant draw without pac.

Who do you propose he fight?

I hope you don't say Andre 'I can't draw 1000 people in Florida, even though I was born and live here' Berto.

I hope you don't say Shane 'I can barely draw 2000 people in California, even though I'm fighting Mayorga, am a future HOFer, and I was born and live here' Mosley.

You *******s are sounding a lot like *****s for injecting all this #s/popularity **** to justify not fighting someone... Hypocrite.

[The Gambler1981]

Only Mayweather and Pacquiao can draw over 10K to Las Vegas. Make that in Texas or California and Marquez will get a significant crowd.

JMM will have the highest HBO rating of 2010.

5k didn't sound like that bad a number to me, considering the only guy on that card the public had any knowledge of was JMM, and most of that crowd is probably for him.

I agree that will be the highest rated because I think this was a free preview weekend

[-Kev-]

Marquez is happy man with his TKO win and his $1.25Mill pay check. The 4K plus fans who watched and the probably million fans who watched on HBO were happy viewers. That's all that matters. *******s keep making attendance a big deal.

It takes 2 two tango anyways. it has nothing to do with Pacquiao and Mayweather.

[Ragnar Lothbrok]

Who do you propose he fight?

I hope you don't say Andre 'I can't draw 1000 people in Florida, even though I was born and live here' Berto.

I hope you don't say Shane 'I can barely draw 2000 people in California, even though I'm fighting Mayorga, am a future HOFer, and I was born and live here' Mosley.

You *******s are sounding a lot like *****s for injecting all this #s/popularity **** to justify not fighting someone... Hypocrite.

im merely answering the TS question as to why marquez doesnt draw. having drawing power as a prerequisite to fight pacquiao is not my thing. & who are you directing your question to? pac or marquez?

pac has faced marquez several times before either were star boxers.

As for pac, he just fought two weeks ago. how about you STFU & wait till he signs a fight before you start b*tching.

b*tch.

[dyu]

Less marketing. Not to mention no 24/7 show.

There are more big names in MMA right now than in boxing - that is for casual fight fans.

Arum is a sham promoter. De la hoya did better tonight with the undercard - at least he had good fighters.

Boxing is just dead here in the US - MMA is the big draw now - more knockouts, blood, and a match is only three rounds so fighters are forced to put more effort in a short amount of time - more excitement.

He had to ... especially with the huge draw marquez is.