Comments Thread For: Floyd Mayweather CBS Special Draws 1.73 Million Viewers

[hectari]

Like 50 cent and the rest of the boxing fans said, Floyd is ****** for letting Pacman slip away from him for so long, that was his legacy fight. Roy Jones Jr said it best why would Floyd let these other guys take his chance at glory? Roy kept saying everyone of the guys Pac has fought had a clear chance to beat him and every time its dangerous for Floyd because why is he letting another man take his glory? If Floyd is the greatest like he claimed why not just fight Pacquiao?
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Like 50 cent and the rest of the boxing fans said, Floyd is ****** for letting Pacman slip away from him for so long, that was his legacy fight. Roy Jones Jr said it best why would Floyd let these other guys take his chance at glory? Roy kept saying everyone of the guys Pac has fought had a clear chance to beat him and every time its dangerous for Floyd because why is he letting another man take his glory? If Floyd is the greatest like he claimed why not just fight Pacquiao?
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Pac didnt slip away , he ran as fast as could , even with a 50/50 offer in the biggest fight in history , what a ducking fake Manny is , but in the end karma sorted him out .

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Pac didnt slip away , he ran as fast as could , even with a 50/50 offer in the biggest fight in history , what a ducking fake Manny is , but in the end karma sorted him out .

Dude 50/50 when was this? Floyd never was going to give up half of anything..he said it himself countless times "I am the undefeated fighter, this isn't an even playing field. I don't think he deserves half". Pacquaio fought his greatest competition 4 times..this isn't the kind of guy to run from a tough fight or a loss..hell he got put to sleep by Marquez and wanted to do it again. So please take your bias uninformed azz on over to the noob fanboy section of boxing scene.

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I said it early on Cbs would regret this deal. You cannot expect large numbers to show up to documentaries when you aren't known as a boxing source. They spend $8 million on an episode of NCIS..take that $8 million and put on some boxers with some name recognition to get folks to your network to watch boxing related content. Right now unless this ppv does around 1.5 million buys it'll be a waste of money for showtime/cbs..I would not be surprised if they are waiting for floyd to void their contract with some bullshhh. The deal was good for Floyd but not both sides and everything every analyst has said about it is slowly coming to be. Even the all access is underwhelming. I really do hope these guys put on a good match tho, want to see what both have in store for us and left in the tank. Showtime needs this to be a huge fight that folks will talk about for weeks nonstop.

[QballLobo]

Dude 50/50 when was this? Floyd never was going to give up half of anything..he said it himself countless times "I am the undefeated fighter, this isn't an even playing field. I don't think he deserves half". Pacquaio fought his greatest competition 4 times..this isn't the kind of guy to run from a tough fight or a loss..hell he got put to sleep by Marquez and wanted to do it again. So please take your bias uninformed azz on over to the noob fanboy section of boxing scene.

During the defamation lawsuit it was revealed that there was a contract sent to Pacquio that he never signed due to the testing procedures in the first round of negotiations in 2009. It included a 50/50 split. Not saying Floyd is blameless and after that fight fell through it seems he didn't really want to get it done. But a proposal for 50/50 was made originally.
Here is a quote and link from a Yahoo article during the defamation lawsuit"

"A contract sent on Dec. 11, 2009, by Golden Boy Promotions on behalf of Mayweather to Top Rank on behalf of Pacquiao proposed a 50-50 financial split between the sides for a fight that would have been held March 13, 2010.

The eight-page agreement is so detailed that it indicates which of the two fighters would step onto the scale first at the weigh-in (Pacquiao), who would walk to the ring first (Pacquiao), who would be introduced first (Mayweather) and who had first choice of the locker room (Mayweather).

It detailed that the bout would have been on HBO Pay-Per-View at a cost of $59.95. Billing was to be "Mayweather vs. Pacquiao, presented by Top Rank, Golden Boy Promotions, Mayweather Promotions and M-P Promotions in association with [approved sponsors and the site]."

Link: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/boxing-...010-fight.html

[big_james10]

I said it early on Cbs would regret this deal. You cannot expect large numbers to show up to documentaries when you aren't known as a boxing source. They spend $8 million on an episode of NCIS..take that $8 million and put on some boxers with some name recognition to get folks to your network to watch boxing related content. Right now unless this ppv does around 1.5 million buys it'll be a waste of money for showtime/cbs..I would not be surprised if they are waiting for floyd to void their contract with some bullshhh. The deal was good for Floyd but not both sides and everything every analyst has said about it is slowly coming to be. Even the all access is underwhelming. I really do hope these guys put on a good match tho, want to see what both have in store for us and left in the tank. Showtime needs this to be a huge fight that folks will talk about for weeks nonstop.

If the fight does 1.5 million PPV's, you and the other haters on this site will claim the network is lying about the numbers. Nobody will lose on this deal in spite of what haters like you claim or want.

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During the defamation lawsuit it was revealed that there was a contract sent to Pacquio that he never signed due to the testing procedures in the first round of negotiations in 2009. It included a 50/50 split. Not saying Floyd is blameless and after that fight fell through it seems he didn't really want to get it done. But a proposal for 50/50 was made originally.
Here is a quote and link from a Yahoo article during the defamation lawsuit"

"A contract sent on Dec. 11, 2009, by Golden Boy Promotions on behalf of Mayweather to Top Rank on behalf of Pacquiao proposed a 50-50 financial split between the sides for a fight that would have been held March 13, 2010.

The eight-page agreement is so detailed that it indicates which of the two fighters would step onto the scale first at the weigh-in (Pacquiao), who would walk to the ring first (Pacquiao), who would be introduced first (Mayweather) and who had first choice of the locker room (Mayweather).

It detailed that the bout would have been on HBO Pay-Per-View at a cost of $59.95. Billing was to be "Mayweather vs. Pacquiao, presented by Top Rank, Golden Boy Promotions, Mayweather Promotions and M-P Promotions in association with [approved sponsors and the site]."

Link: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/boxing-...010-fight.html

They also knew about the PEDS testing in the very first draft , Roach was quoted as saying no problems , then you never heard about the testing , Manny was busy pushing for 50/50 , Floyd agreed , then Manny wanted a 10mill weight forfeit , as ridicules as it was Floyd agreed , having failed to run Floyd of they threw the last duck card they had the testing .

IT was a huge Manny Duck , either he ducked Floyd or he ducked the PEDS testing either way it was a huge duck considering how big that fight was .

[jaestix1]

great documentary.......enjoyed the way they got his whole family involved and gave the guerrero family some shine too.

[cupocity303]

Who picked the damn theme song/score that was playing throughout the Documentary. Just horrible. I felt like I was watching the movie Armageddon or something. As if Floyd is about to save us from Asteroids crashing down on us.

[apocalypto]

LL Cool J was way better than Common on all access, it was a good documentary

Dam de leon is huge. Looks like mares daddy. Hopefully mares decides to box not brawl with de leon or he will be in trouble