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Let me play Devil's advocate:
Theoretically, if opponents of Floyd's were paid to take it easy and/or take a dive -- it would make business sense. Think about it. The old traditional way of looking at dives is that it makes more sense to get a triology out of two fighters and milk as much money as possible. That you need the main guy to lose at least once, so that it builds up his opponent and so and so forth.
It's not necessary with Floyd. He is raking in millions and millions in revenue just by being undefeated and fighting once or twice a year. A single attraction. There is no more guarantee that the guy who beats him will become just as big of a cash cow once he is done with Floyd. The times have changed. So if one were looking to squeeze out as much revenue out of the paying public as possible, it would be getting the maximum out of a unbeaten Floyd. The odds of having another group of PPV attractions like Delahoya, Floyd, Manny, and Cotto to a lesser extent are dwindling. The Broner's, Ward's, Golovkin's are never gonna generate what the previous generation did. We are going back to a time where the wealth is going to be spread around, with the best Boxers making about equal to moderate amounts of money, fighting on HBO/Show with the occasional PPV when a long time talked about match-up is finally agreed upon (and by long time I mean Roy Jones Vs Hopkins, Floyd VS Pacquiao, Tyson Vs Lewis, that kind of long time)
Theoretically, if opponents of Floyd's were paid to take it easy and/or take a dive -- it would make business sense. Think about it. The old traditional way of looking at dives is that it makes more sense to get a triology out of two fighters and milk as much money as possible. That you need the main guy to lose at least once, so that it builds up his opponent and so and so forth.
It's not necessary with Floyd. He is raking in millions and millions in revenue just by being undefeated and fighting once or twice a year. A single attraction. There is no more guarantee that the guy who beats him will become just as big of a cash cow once he is done with Floyd. The times have changed. So if one were looking to squeeze out as much revenue out of the paying public as possible, it would be getting the maximum out of a unbeaten Floyd. The odds of having another group of PPV attractions like Delahoya, Floyd, Manny, and Cotto to a lesser extent are dwindling. The Broner's, Ward's, Golovkin's are never gonna generate what the previous generation did. We are going back to a time where the wealth is going to be spread around, with the best Boxers making about equal to moderate amounts of money, fighting on HBO/Show with the occasional PPV when a long time talked about match-up is finally agreed upon (and by long time I mean Roy Jones Vs Hopkins, Floyd VS Pacquiao, Tyson Vs Lewis, that kind of long time)
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