Floyd-Cotto classic fight

[Xi_]

Look I originally liked the fight, but ive since been persuaded that Cotto was trying to "Resto" Floyd out there. He had gloves with no padding! Too many fighter's is dyin'. That wasnt a real fight, it was a crime scene.

stop trolling and talk boxing.

[Chuckguy]

1.5 million ppv buys, yet it's not a fight that people wanted to see......nsb logic for you.

So by your logic Floyd's fight against Maidana was under 1m
Buys more like 650k so that tells u. No one wanted to see that right?

[Dirk Diggler UK]

many hardcore fans still wanted to see it and the numbers prove it.

No it doesn't prove it. Mayweather and Cotto had become household names with huge fanbases. It was always going to do well on PPV. If Mike Tyson came back, it would do great on PPV - doesn't make it a good idea.

The vast majority of hardcore fans thought it was a poor match-up that was years too late.

[Larry the boss]

No-one was enthused about the fight when it eventually happened.

In 2008, when it had masses of heat? Floyd was on vacation.

Still, good fight.

Pacquiao has about 15 better ones.

Yeah, I said it.

1.5 million buyers say you are a lie

[Masters01]

stop trolling and talk boxing.

Easy for you to say. You aint the one getting punched with gloves with no padding, with all these fighters dyin'. You dont pay no bills for these fighters, when it's all set and done, you gon' move on to the next one.

[Xi_]

So by your logic Floyd's fight against Maidana was under 1m
Buys more like 650k so that tells u. No one wanted to see that right?

actually your numbers are off by more than 200k but whatever......how did you assume that was my logic?

[djtmal]

It was a decent fight, not a classic.

Now srl/hearns, that was a classic...

Two cats in their prime for all the marbles...

[Xi_]

No it doesn't prove it. Mayweather and Cotto had become household names with huge fanbases. It was always going to do well on PPV. If Mike Tyson came back, it would do great on PPV - doesn't make it a good idea.

The vast majority of hardcore fans thought it was a poor match-up that was years too late.

according to who? and who are these hardcore boxing fans that you're talking about? i surely hope you're not talking about nsb, lmao. all of my folks/friends follow boxing hard and they were looking forward to this fight going in. i know the bar is raised to crazy heights when talking about floyd but a fight against cotto is a good scrap for anyone at 147-154, including floyd. cotto was past his prime(so is floyd) but he wasn't shot to **** like everyone wants to believe.

[New England]

cotto fought in everlast MX.


oh, the irony.

[JmH Reborn]

In 2008 it was the biggest fight in boxing

It just wasnt the same in 2012. For me, it was a let down. Every round that went by just made me mad that we got the watered down version of the fight instead of the classic we could have gotten when they both were prime.