Comments Thread For: De La Hoya Praises Mayweather For Taking Rematch

[I Hate Thugs!]

I wouldn't go that far. Money pays Oscar to do his promotion (for now), but doesn't sign a contract to promoters like other fighters:

In order to make the really big money in the world of professional fight promotion, you need to follow the Floyd Mayweather's highly creative and highly lucrative business model. The reason Floyd Mayweather is able to take home as much as $80 million from a single night's work is because he owns every single aspect of his own events. Whenever Mayweather fights someone, he puts up all the money for the entire show, himself. He pays for the venue, the insurance, the vendors and even his opponent's purse, out of his own pocket. When Mayweather fought Saul Alvarez, he spent $15-20 million of his own money before a single punch was even thrown. He also put aside $40 million for himself as an appearance fee. The major risk Floyd is taking is that all these expenses occur before the fight happens. If there was a natural disaster like a hurricane, the fight would be canceled and Floyd would be out of luck.

On the other hand, when the Alvarez fight did go through as planned, more than 2.2 million households ordered it on Pay Per View for $65 which generated $150 million worth of revenue. Even after a large percentage was taken out for the distributors and costs, Floyd was still left with a $45 million bonus. And 100% of that money went directly into his bank account (after taxes). When you add Mayweather's $40 million appearance fee and his $45 million PPV bonus, you can start to understand why he makes $85 million for a single fight.

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/art...ion-per-fight/

He's not questioning the ducks way of making more money (after all, he emulated DLH business model). I think what the poster is saying is that at the present time, DLH is being an intelligent business man by reaching out to former promotional rivals i.e. Arum and boxing rivals i.e. and playing the "kool" game in order to acquire business relationships and in turn maximize his revenue.

Whereas other unintelligent ****** thugs will publicly bash another fellow athlete and fellow "businessman" (I don't consider the duck a businessman, he's to ****** to be one, more like a man with natural boxing talent at the right place and the right time, with the right people around him) only to come back like a dog between his tail

[nycsmooth]

The "Keith Thurman is not a big enough name" comment is a load of crap. I genuinely believe a Keith Thurman fight in September certainly would outsell the Maidana fight from May and probably even outsell this rematch. The kid is an undefeated young American fighter and has enough speed, power and boxing skill to be a legitimate threat to Mayweather. Both casual boxing fans and certainly hardcore boxing fans would pay to watch it.

even though Keith is WBA, u hit this nail 1 right on the head many will offer reasons why not 2 take him on, Keith does not have 2 prove himself & with the proper elite rival, can hold his own on ppv...

[TheRichCoward]

De La Hoya: $$$ I've always admired Mayweathers courage $$$

[Fetta]

He's not questioning the ducks way of making more money (after all, he emulated DLH business model). I think what the poster is saying is that at the present time, DLH is being an intelligent business man by reaching out to former promotional rivals i.e. Arum and boxing rivals i.e. and playing the "kool" game in order to acquire business relationships and in turn maximize his revenue.

Whereas other unintelligent ****** thugs will publicly bash another fellow athlete and fellow "businessman" (I don't consider the duck a businessman, he's to ****** to be one, more like a man with natural boxing talent at the right place and the right time, with the right people around him) only to come back like a dog between his tail

Always something

[Kuyukut]

Interesting that no one is complaining about Mayweather ducking this and that person.

fraud jr ducking maidana's choice of gloves doe!

[33030]

even though Keith is WBA, u hit this nail 1 right on the head many will offer reasons why not 2 take him on, Keith does not have 2 prove himself & with the proper elite rival, can hold his own on ppv...

Keith Thurman never faced adversity yet in a fight. All of Keith fights were by KO. There's no story line to sell for the guy. We still dont if Keith can be the face of the WW divison. Dont get me wrong Thruman is a stud. But from what I see from Thurman he's a combo punchers with good foot work. So in my eyes, he's Canelo. He often leaves the pocket with his hands down and if Mayweather picks up his timing with those combos Mayweather str8 right hand will land every time

[VG_Addict]

Thurman has leaky defense.

Floyd is a HUGE step up from the likes of Julio Diaz. Floyd would school Thurman in his current form.

[Nomadic]

Even tho I like Keith Thurman too I dont think he can sell enough for PPV. What I say on other websites, when the casual fans knows who you are than the promotional companies can put you on a bigger stage. I just dont think "casual fan" knows who he is yet...

Thurman would sell big if they fought in San Diego.

[Nomadic]

fraud jr ducking maidana's choice of gloves doe!

Would you agree that a gun is a gun no matter the size, if you get shot, it's a possibility you will die? Same thing with boxing, it's don't matter the glove, depends on the operator's skill to use it.

[sensi_many]

I actually think that Floyd tested how far he could go with Maidana and laid in wait to set up his timing. Late in the fight, Floyd figured out Maidana's "thousand hand slap" and began to dominate in significant strikes. I watched the fight in a bar full of people who wanted to see him fail, so everytime Maidana threw a flurry of punches they ooed and ahh'd. Who cares if you throw 1000+ punches? If your punches aren't landing and your opponent lands more than you - why should you get the win?
That being said it created the illusion of a close fight (which it was close), but people need to realize that is usually how it works for Floyd. If you aint knock'n him out by RD6, you better hang em up, because FMJ has you all figured out. In turn, with it being a "close fight" it has now created a hunger for $$$rematch$$$ It now has the posibility of monetarily surpassing the Canelo fight. The only thing is this: How does Maidana improve on his technique? He surely won't outbox FMJ. Throw more punches? No. He has to reinvent himself to be more accurate and I doubt that will happen in the short amount of time between the two fights.
It is boxing though, so anything can happen; but I truly believe it will be a whitewash this time around. FMJ UD (shutout).