Cotto/Martinez underperforms, does 350,000 buys

[ButtScratcher^^]

Yes, they are disappointing. I guess people will not splurge cash, unless, its manny or floyd is in the show. But still, it's a good show for boxing nonetheless.

[paulf]

There is ALWAYS going to be competition from other sports. If Boxing isn't willing to go the extra mile when it comes to putting together cards, it is going to continue to fade into the background of american sports.

As for PPV? **** PPV. Dont buy it.

[radioraheem]

Only Pac and Floyd can break 500k

The decline in boxing has led from them not fighting. People got tired of the best not fighting the best.

If they had met in the ring the amount of hype it would have generated would have been phenomenal. Boxing would have been back on the front pages.

****ing assholes.

It's the cost factor. Too many PPV's and the economy isn't exactly great.

Do you know what got reported today economically? Today's economic numbers was a disaster in America.

[MrRolltide91]

It's the cost factor. Too many PPV's and the economy isn't exactly great.

Do you know what got reported today economically? Today's economic numbers was a disaster in America.

Exactly we could end up with 8 or 9 ppv fights this year

[Check_hooks]

It's the cost factor. Too many PPV's and the economy isn't exactly great.

Do you know what got reported today economically? Today's economic numbers was a disaster in America.

Anything really big? Today my newsfeed was all about Google IO press conference

[RSBonos]

It's true. Boxing has WAAAAY too many PPV these days with fights that aren't even PPV worthy.

There have been very few boxing PPVs in the last 5+ years, back in the day around 2006 they would put on 10+ PPVs a year before they started to bomb. So really this is the first time in years that there are so many of them, and 300k would be good in general but it's just that many expected this one to do better.

[radioraheem]

Anything really big? Today my newsfeed was all about Google IO press conference

Gross domestic product -- the broadest measure of economic growth -- contracted at a 2.9% annual rate in January through March. That's the weakest quarter for the U.S. economy since the first quarter of 2009, amid the Great Recession.

That's negative (-2.9%). Really bad!

[mathed]

Good luck getting Tim to jump up to 154 now, lol...sorry Arum.

[DARKSEID]

It's the cost factor. Too many PPV's and the economy isn't exactly great.

Do you know what got reported today economically? Today's economic numbers was a disaster in America.

That's not an excuse. Anybody who could afford a ppv fight in the past, can afford it now.

Pac and Floyd were selling millions in the recession and things are much better now.

[radioraheem]

That's not an excuse. Anybody who could afford a ppv fight back then, can afford it now if they want to.

Pac and Floyd were selling millions in the recession and things are much better now.

They aren't much better. Things are actually worse.

Also the difference back then was that Pac and Floyd were the 2 major PPVs. It's not like this year where there's so many. Floyd wasn't even fighting 2 times per year back then. He fought only once. And a lot of fans knew that, so his numbers performed even better because he only fought once and not again til the following year.