Is Floyd a bigger draw than Oscar was?

[A-Wolf]

Oscar. For days.

[TheHayeMaker]

lol @ the tards that think that black boxes were more prevalent than illegal streams are now ... you cant be serious!

and FEWER people have cable now than in the 90s because you can download/stream any show that you please without having to pay for 50+ other channels that you never watch

i have a TON of friends that dont have cable, just a netflix account and a hulu subscription ... i wouldnt have cable if i wasnt addicted to espn

but it is.

blackbox and cable was everywhere

that's not the point

people have to understand PPV wasn't the big thing back then, and Oscar had to complete with Tyson along with other stars.

If Oscar is in this era with 24/7 and the mass online media marketing FLoyd has, he will do 4 million

[RlCKY]

Together, they did the biggest fight in boxing History. Since Oscar has retired Mayweather has gone on to consistently do a million buys, sometimes with overmatched or little known opponents.


Oscar accomplished the 1 million+ buys 3 times.

How many times did Floyd do that before the Oscar fight?

[jcpryor]

How many times did Floyd do that before the Oscar fight?

That isn't relevant at all. Oscar gave Floyd the exposure that he needed to make himself a star, but Oscar didn't "make" Floyd. Floyd has a polarizing personality, hes controversial, he's massively skilled and he talks a lot of ****. That sells in America.

If Oscar "made" Floyd, then why hasn't anyone else Oscar fought reached Mayweather's PPV status?

That being said - its hard to say if Mayweather is a bigger draw than Oscar. Oscar didn't have the benefit of social media the way that Mayweather does now....Then again there weren't streaming websites available either - to my knowledge

[TheHayeMaker]

a better question

will be

HOW POPULAR WOULD FLOYD HAVE BEEN

IF HE WAS AROUND AT THE SAME TIME AS PRIME OSCAR

AND TYSON

[Gino Ros]

ON TOP OF THE $12 MILLION GATE:


Nevada commission says Mayweather-Cotto did $717,450 in closed circuit $ at 11 MGM locations in Las Vegas. 9,566 tix sold