Comments Thread For: Bob Arum Explains Further on His Anger With MGM Grand

[MamaHuevo]

It would probably be around floyd -350 and Bradley +300

But Bradley should be the favorite

LMAO ya with the amount of punishment he took against a guy that Mayweather not only would school he would barely get hit. The same Bradley that a lot boxing writers had Pac as threw sower of there first fight? Your reaching. it would probably be the same odds as the Maidana fight.

[QballLobo]

Truth hurts for these cats... I mean how the f**k is 800000-900000 ppv numbers bad

Its bad when the fight needed to sell over 1 million + to break even and cover Mayweathers guarantee. Check out Showtimes financials for 2013, all that red you see they blamed on the Guerrero/Floyd fight.
Arum, Top Rank, and HBO still made money off the Pac/Rios fight despite the low numbers. Showtime, Golden Boy didn't make anything off of Floyd/Ghost.
Its the reason why Floyd did one solo press conference piggybacking Canelo's last fight to hype this one up. Golden Boy nor Floyd is going to sink money into what is sure to be another sub 1 million PPV...

[Pigeons]

The barometer for Mayweather-Guerrero being a financial failure came through the fact that SHO needed a certain amount of buys to make money. Why they made the break even point 1M or 1.1M for Mayweather vs. Guerrero is beyong me, but they did.

With that said, the failure that was Mayweather-Guerrero still outsold both HBO PPVs of 2013, Bradley-Marquez and Pacquiao-Rios combined. That says it all.

This time with a better B side (Maidana+unification), better undercard (Khan-Collazo>Mares-Ponce de leon, Broner>LSC), less All Access (looks like 3 episodes this time, maybe a prologue?) will equal more money in the bank for this fight.

[dc3383]

Nobody knows what + or - of Showtime financials are; hell Showtime says the fight did over a mil reporters claim 870k. It's highly doubtful anybody thought that fight would do 1.3 mil which is a huge number so i doubt that would be anybodys mark for a successful PPV. Arum said they needed atleat 600k to break even and 475k isn't that.

[Phenom]

is they anything he is not mad about? this angry old **** probably yells at kids to get off his lawn too

[PunchyPotorff]

I'am a promoter too..i have the best fighter in the world in my stable, the one and only g.o.a.t charlie zelenoff !!! Lmao

Promoter is a job. And no, I'm not a boxing event promoter. Lotta unemployed comedians out there... maybe you should pick a different vocation. Just sayin.

[lets rumble]

MGM is the Mecca of world boxing , wouldn't you hold your tongue so your fighters can get a date in the future ?
In saying that I think it's very unprofessional to sell and advertise floyds fight until after this weekend .
Shame on MGM .
But for the sake of your stable stfu bob .

[oneon11]

That's why Floyd's his own boss and well Pacroid has a boss. When you call your own shots you can afford to put your logo right over a C level fighters face right before he fights. Rob Arum should have this fight in that stadium he was building. Damn what was I thinking there is no or ever going to be a stadium. ..... Sorry Ole Rob tricks are for kids........

[nycsmooth]

bad taste? mayb, but FM's the $$$...Bradley can't draw flies...

[JJRod]

I somehow doubt Mayweather is struggling to sell tickets.

I believe the Pacquiao fight is probably projected to do badly and it's why Arum is lashing out here.

Otherwise why be so angry about it?
If the MGM grand said, it's because Mayweather's struggling to sell tickets, wouldn't he be happy about that?