Comments Thread For: Canelo Expects To Face Trout, Then Mayweather

[QballLobo]

Why would Oscar be competing with top heavyweights? They never fought on the same night.

The biggest events get the best fight dates to maximise profits. Look at the dates Oscar fought on in the 90's and early 2000's. He got the Cinco de mayo's because of his draw but the other traditional big fight weekends were taken by american heavyweights.
People forget that boxing was on an NFL/NBA level until the late 90's, not the fringe sport that it is today.
Not knocking Floyd, he's had an incredible run, but hasn't had to compete with the level of stars that Oscar did when he was coming up.

[wizard king]

mayweather will make $70 million plus this year.

and then go broke in less then 6month poor ignorant fool

[flint]

and then go broke in less then 6month poor ignorant fool

maybe. maybe not.ignorant fool

[flint]

Man a canelo-trout fight should be the main event.Thats not a
undercard fight.

its exactly whats is is. a undercard fight if mayweather was'nt involved. both are coming into their own. but not there yet.

[flint]

Canelo-Trout is a great fight. But i must be the only one here who thinks Canelo against Mayweather is a complete mismatch, i honestly would only give Canelo a punchers chance.

its not a mismatch.canelo is younger,big,and stronger.but mayweather knows how to beat him.its not a mismatch by no means.

[dnash1911]

Man a canelo-trout fight should be the main event.Thats not a
undercard fight.

On Main event fight? on what HBO common folk dont know Austin Trout from Rainbow trout and Canelo is only a budding star, Mexicans and die hd fight fans know him to common American people he is the red head young kid than can fight and beat Shane Mosley, h has fought no one and is being built up but hes never do ppv number, and he is not FLoyd would did over a million fighting no name Victor Ortiz. so stop comparing Canelo to a man who has done hundreds of millions PPv is his lifetime. FLoyd is a star, anyone who fights on his cards will be the undercard

[IMDAZED]

The biggest events get the best fight dates to maximise profits. Look at the dates Oscar fought on in the 90's and early 2000's. He got the Cinco de mayo's because of his draw but the other traditional big fight weekends were taken by american heavyweights.
People forget that boxing was on an NFL/NBA level until the late 90's, not the fringe sport that it is today.
Not knocking Floyd, he's had an incredible run, but hasn't had to compete with the level of stars that Oscar did when he was coming up.

That doesn't answer the question. Evander Holyfield wasn't competing for Cinco De Mayo.

[flint]

The biggest events get the best fight dates to maximise profits. Look at the dates Oscar fought on in the 90's and early 2000's. He got the Cinco de mayo's because of his draw but the other traditional big fight weekends were taken by american heavyweights.
People forget that boxing was on an NFL/NBA level until the late 90's, not the fringe sport that it is today.
Not knocking Floyd, he's had an incredible run, but hasn't had to compete with the level of stars that Oscar did when he was coming up.

but mayweather beat oscar. so there you have it..

[juandabomb]

canelo jinx will happen again, guerrero will upset mayweather!..i know thats a tuff call but canelo bad karma is on a roll.

[QballLobo]

That doesn't answer the question. Evander Holyfield wasn't competing for Cinco De Mayo.

Let me slow it down for you numbnuts. The argument was made that Floyd has had higher PPV numbers overall than Oscar.
While definitely true, it doesn't factor in the fact that when Oscar was doing it Welterweights and Junior middleweights weren't the biggest draws in the sport at the time, heavyweights were and their PPV numbers dwarf even what Floyd is doing.
Floyd has the pick of all the prime fight dates, no other boxers would dare challenge him or put a fight on the same night as him. If Floyd were doing it when Oscar was he would be competing for dates with the likes of Tyson and Lewis. Evander or Tyson may not have wanted Cinco de drinco, but there a lot of other big fight dates in the summer and late fall they would have had dibs on over a de lay hoya at the time. Not to mention the fact that Oscar or anyone couldn't charge $60-70 for an HD broadcast at the time.