Originally posted by QballLobo
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Floyd/Guerrerro wasn't announced in January partly because Mayweather was negotiating with HBO and Showtime for the long-term contract that he signed with Showtime. They waited until after he had an agreement with a network to announce the fight and there is nothing wrong with that. It had nothing to do with Alvarez. According to what has been reported, Floyd told Alvarez that he would be willing to fight Canelo in September if Alvarez won. No contracts were signed. It was a verbal agreement and Canelo, thinking he is much higher on the totem pole than he actually, is started making demands.
A front line factory worker does not make demands to the CEO of the company. In terms of prestige and power in boxing, Mayweather is the CEO and Alvarez is the front-line factory worker. Guerrerro will make more money fighting Mayweather as the opponent than Alvarez will make fighting Trout as the main attraction in their fight. If Alvarez was the star that he thinks he is, his fight with Trout would have been moved to June and placed on PPV. However, Schafer knows that Alvarez is not a PPV draw. Unfortunately, Alvarez does not realize that.
Whether you or anyone else likes what Floyd said, he is speaking the truth. Just as Oscar De La Hoya dictated the terms of all of his fights because he was the star, Floyd dictates the terms of his fights, not the other way around. If Alvarez beats Trout, he could end up fighting Cotto in a PPV later this year. If that does happen, the fight will sell a maximum of 400,000 PPVs and the majority of those will be due to Cotto. Mayweather will double that against whoever he may face in his next fight.
As far as Mayweather/Guerrerro doing the worst PPV numbers since Mayweather/Hatton, Mayweather/Hatton sold 925,000 PPVs. That is more than Pacquaio has sold in his last four fights and more than Alvarez would sell in any PPV fight that did not involve Mayweather.
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