Canelo: "I'm fighting in May and Sept regardless who else fights!"

[Deevel916]

Untrue.

Casinos give the biggest site fees. Because people will usually stay the whole weekend and spend big money the entire weekend. Once you get to a stadium, theres nothing to really spend money on. Thats why the biggest fights are in casinos and not stadiums. Thats why the Staples Center and even Jerry World cannot compete with MGM.

Big name boxers need big name casinos.

You have a point but it also reflect on how much the casinos (MGM) also need big named boxers just as much. The casino has much more to lose/gain.

[badass316]

Casual or not, it would be foolish to go against Canelo/Cotto on Cinco De Mayo. The sole reason why Floyd fights on those weekends is to try and tap into the hispanic fan base and that ain't happening if Canelo is fighting on the same night. It would defeat the purpose of fighting on those said dates if the audience he's targeting isn't there to be had.

If he truly believes he has the American casuals in his back pocket then just fight on another weekend, more specifically an American holiday. MLK or Independence weekends should be fine. I'm sure his supporters would show up in droves to support him and buy his PPV...

[icha]

FWIW -just one opinion.

Derek (Toronto)
Who does the MGM Grand go with for May Cinco weekend, Mayweather/Haymon or Canelo/Oscar?

Brian Campbell (3:08 PM)
I find it hard to believe that both a Cotto-Canelo and Floyd fight will end up truly going head-to-head on PPV on the same night. I believe someone will back down or switch ideas or move to regular TV or SOMETHING to avoid that. Just my two cents. But if it literally came down to this decision for the MGM between the two fights and they were literally forced to choose, I think they would choose Floyd. He's (quite literally) the house fighter and there appears to be a deep relationship there.

Outside of fighting Manny, the only way Floyd could upstage Cotto-Canelo in May is fighting on network TV.

— Brian Campbell (@BCampbellESPN) September 23, 2014

[Emon723]

Canelo-Cotto: May
Canelo-Chavez: September

[travestyny]

Don't you get it you ****** pigheaded fool it's about improving numbers and Canelo will improve his ppv sales on those dates and those dates will bring his ppvs sales up. Why don't you talk about may fight on mlk day? And see how that goes. Stop acting like floyd owns those dates cause he doesn't. Like I said before you got to be a ****** motherfffff****er if you think a mexican can't fight on a Mexican holiday.

1. If you want to talk about idiocy, how ****** do you have to be to suggest someone hold a boxing match on MLK Day? Do you know anything about MLK?

2. I seriously doubt going head to head with the biggest PPV boxer is a good way to improve your numbers. A fight between Canelo and Cotto can generate serious numbers no matter when the date. But you put that head to head against a Mayweather fight, and simply put, you generate less. Even if he does better numbers than he ever did before, he would likely have done better numbers with the same fight if he stays away from a head to head encounter. It's a dumb business move point blank, but I don't expect someone as simple as you to understand. Carry on.

[Wizardsh]

1. If you want to talk about idiocy, how ****** do you have to be to suggest someone hold a boxing match on MLK Day? Do you know anything about MLK?

2. I seriously doubt going head to head with the biggest PPV boxer is a good way to improve your numbers. A fight between Canelo and Cotto can generate serious numbers no matter when the date. But you put that head to head against a Mayweather fight, and simply put, you generate less. Even if he does better numbers than he ever did before, he would likely have done better numbers with the same fight if he stays away from a head to head encounter. It's a dumb business move point blank, but I don't expect someone as simple as you to understand. Carry on.

You truly are a ****** mother****kkker, it's sarcasm,may groupies are so ******ed that they don't even know when they are getting clowned on. Funny
thing is that floyd is so dam ****** like his fan base that he would fight on mlk

The idiocy of this whole thread is that you got some pigheaded fools trying to make a case on why a mexican cant fight on a mexican holiday. It makes buiness sense for Canelo since when does making profit not make sense. It hurts floyd more then it does Canelo. Bottom line Canelo is getting one of those days so you better start getting on your knees with Floyd and start praying that Canelo doest fight on both days

[AllBoxingAD]

You have a point but it also reflect on how much the casinos (MGM) also need big named boxers just as much. The casino has much more to lose/gain.

Im not sure how you figure that a casino like MGM, which has MULTIPLE ways of making money, has more to lose than Canelo, who can only make money in the boxing ring.

I think we maybe we just disagree on how big of an attraction Canelo really is.

[Deevel916]

Im not sure how you figure that a casino like MGM, which has MULTIPLE ways of making money, has more to lose than Canelo, who can only make money in the boxing ring.

I think we maybe we just disagree on how big of an attraction Canelo really is.

It has more to lose because they have much more to gain by having Canelo fight there as opposed to him fighting elsewhere.

What might Canelo make by fighting there? Maybe 1 or 2mil more from the site fee's that the MGM may pay. Now how much more in revenue would the MGM pull in on a wknd when Canelo is fighting there as opposed to if he fought elsewhere? The MGM will make thier money regardless but they will always see a big boost in revenue when guys like Floyd, Pacquiao, Canelo are fighting there.

[AllBoxingAD]

It has more to lose because they have much more to gain by having Canelo fight there as opposed to him fighting elsewhere.

What might Canelo make by fighting there? Maybe 1 or 2mil more from the site fee's that the MGM may pay. Now how much more in revenue would the MGM pull in on a wknd when Canelo is fighting there as opposed to if he fought elsewhere? The MGM will make thier money regardless but they will always see a big boost in revenue when guys like Floyd, Pacquiao, Canelo are fighting there.

One single fight wont make a difference for MGM.

Its not like Canelo will say he would never ever wanna fight there after that. You see that is what would make a difference in his career.

MGM been there long before him and will be there long after. There are other top boxers who would love to have all their fights at MGM.

I feel like we are talking about stars on the level of Pac and Floyd. Canelo is far below them. Everyone else is. Pac and Floyd have leverage. I dont think Canelo is there yet IMHO.

All this goes back to the main issue of the dates. Canelo certainly can go head to head with Floyd on those dates. But in the process EVERYONE is losing money because they would all be stuck with a fraction of the already limited boxing fan pool.

[smoothsmg]

Um ok, let me get this straight. Did not feel like reading 22 pages of comments, but this is so weird. This is the only board I have posted on since ESPN stopped its message boards, and since I have been on here, there has been one thing that has been spoken loudly and frequently on this board iand that is Cotto has been done. Cotto was done after the Margarito fight, and he was definitely done after the Manny fight. So how is it that all of a sudden "you people" are now all of a sudden so pumped for him to fight Alvarez when "you people" have been saying he has been done since 2008?