Comments Thread For: Chavez-Martinez: 475K PPV Buys, $25 Million in Revenue

[_original_]

You may be right but the idea that two non-English speaking fighters somehow lessens a fight's popularity is ridiculous. The U.S.A. is filled with every race imaginable and Spanish is damn near spoken as much as English. And probably even more than what numbers show. Furthermore, that population increases by a lot when you're talking about hardcore and casual fans of boxing.

I honestly think it does. I think this fight could have sold increasingly more if both spoke English, I mean look at all the trash talk that was going on (people eat that stuff up). Hard to see casual (who only speak English) fans getting excited over fighters they don't understand or necessarily relate too; there's a cultural barrier there that I rather not get into right now. Essentially this was a huge fight for Latinos and hardcore boxing fans, but was difficult to market towards the typical American. My two pennies of coarse.

[IMDAZED]

I honestly think it does. I think this fight could have sold increasingly more if both spoke English, I mean look at all the trash talk that was going on (people eat that stuff up). Hard to see casual (who only speak English) fans getting excited over fighters they don't understand or necessarily relate too; there's a cultural barrier there that I rather not get into right now. Essentially this was a huge fight for Latinos and hardcore boxing fans.

The Latino population makes up a huge portion of U.S. residents and an even larger portion of boxing fans. And casual fans who are somewhat into boxing aren't going to make their decision based on whether the fighter speaks English or not. It's going to be based on whether or not they have something else doing that night. That's why they're casual fans.

[2501]

Boxing's popularity has declined? Not at all. The irony is that boxing is always in the news as having declined. Nothing has changed from 2006 to now in terms of boxing's popularity--in fact, one could argue that there's been a slight uptick as UFC has faded some and fighters who were unknowns a couple years ago just reeled in 500K. And the superstars just did 1.5mil. Anybody do that in 2006? I don't think so.

Boxing's popularity has definitely declined and anyone continuing to deny that is just being delusional. We have less boxers known to the general public and less PPVS being purchased from different fighters. ****, we even have less PPVS in general. Boxing is not the mainstream sport it used to be.

There is NO interests from the general public in the heavyweight division whats so ever and if you were to ask a casual fan to name a fighter other than Pacquiao and Mayweather, do you think they'd be able to?

[IMDAZED]

Boxing's popularity has definitely declined and anyone continuing to deny that is just being delusional. We have less boxers known to the general public and less PPVS being purchased from different fighters. ****, we even have less PPVS in general. Boxing is not the mainstream sport it used to be.

Yeah it's not the mainstream sport it used to be. But we're talking 2006, not 1996. Boxing was in the doldrums in 2006. Oscar was on his way out and there weren't any other established PPV stars. Mayweather was just starting to get going and Pacquiao was doing 300-400K against the likes of Barrera and Morales. Who else was there? Roy Jones was done. Bernard Hopkins had his mega-fight against Oscar two years prior. Two years prior to 2012, Mayweather outdid Oscar-Hopkins by 400,000 more buys against Mosley. Boxing if anything, has increased in popularity since then.

[Ringlife]

I think Canelo fighting on the same night hurt these PPV numbers.I think it would have been a little bit more higher then 475K.

[revs1227]

wow if it hits 600 thats bad ass

[ddangerous]

Good to see this fight turned out some good numbers. Martinez needs to get PAID his next outing. No less than 5 million against another name opponent I hope.