Comments Thread For: Mayweather Rating: High For Boxing, Low For Network TV

[cowardsinboxing]

CBSwillsurelyregretwastingmillionsonchicken

"To put the show’s ratings in perspective, fewer viewers tuned into the free-TV show than the 2.4 million pay-per-view buys generated in his May 2007 win over Oscar de la Hoya."

But the million dollar questions are...who was the superstar for the 2.4 million buys? Who was the bigger draw?

Ok let's have some details on PPV before the two faced each other.

Here some facts:

Apr 12, 1997 Oscar De La Hoya vs. Pernell Whitaker 720,000[11]

Sep 18, 1999 Oscar De La Hoya 1,400,000[9]

Sep 14, 2002 Oscar De La Hoya vs. Fernando Vargas 935,000[11]

Sep 13, 2003 Oscar De La Hoya vs. Shane Mosley 2 950,000[11]

May 6, 2006 Oscar De La Hoya vs. Ricardo Mayorga 925,000[12]

VS.

Jun 25, 2005 Floyd Mayweather vs. Arturo Gatti 365,000
Apr 8, 2006 Floyd Mayweather vs. Zab Judah 374,000
Nov 4, 2006 Floyd Mayweather vs. Carlos Baldomir 325,000

Using the 2.4 million buys against the Golden Boy to prove Mayweather's (high) rate in boxing is not only extremely biased, it's also...LAUGHABLE

I now rest my case.

[cowardsinboxing]

Sep 18, 1999 Oscar De La Hoya vs. Félix Trinidad 1,400,000[9]

[Fetta]

Finally! got to work and some folk around here talking about Floyd fight casue of this show.

Will it do good? i dont really care, i just know its got my buy but i buy all PPV.

[ItsTrue]

Finally! got to work and some folk around here talking about Floyd fight casue of this show.

Will it do good? i dont really care, i just know its got my buy but i buy all PPV.

I thought you were going to the fight Fetta?

[Fetta]

I thought you were going to the fight Fetta?

Change of plans at last minute. Life happens sometimes. Oh well

[junior gong]

Change of plans at last minute. Life happens sometimes. Oh well

I smell bs.

[Fetta]

I smell bs.

You can smell what you want to smell. Shoot i still have flight (southwest only lets you have credit) on hold just in case but its over.

[Frank Ducketts]

If anything Canelo would have been the one to get decent ratings because of his massive Mexican fanbase and because he is a new face.

You probably can't get less then 1 million viewers on primetime network TV...but you are just being an ignorant fanboy.

Either way, as shown by the UFC/Floyd/Pac, there is a ceiling of tops 2 million viewers for these hype shows, which all in all is bad.

Fan boy...lmao! No massive Mexican fanbase would elevate Canelo to a high television rating on CBS on a Saturday night, sorry!

[MiscBrah]

some of you having wet dreams about his ppv failing..... instead of wishing failure on another man, focus on yourself and ask where are you in life

[Frank Ducketts]

some of you having wet dreams about his ppv failing..... instead of wishing failure on another man, focus on yourself and ask where are you in life

Lmmfao! Your avy has me cracking the hell up, lmao!