Comments Thread For: Arum, CBS CEO Set Meeting on Mayweather-Pacquiao

[FeFist]

It's like the concept of a long term investment is lost on certain people. "They don't deal with losses, blah blah blah blah blah."

Yeah that might be the case, but seeing as you're not privy to their business plan you cannot assess whether the no. falls into their projected plans. Ultimately people make moves with the intention of making a profit; however, in order to do, sacrifices are sometimes made.

Simplifying things for you. Someone buys 100 at £50 each, he is going to have a short term loss of £5,000. If he is able to sell 10 a month at $100, he will make a profit of £5,000 down the stretch.

At the moment, Showtime is probably more concerned with improving their brand recognition. If they can build a consistent brand that will last over 10 years, I'm guessing they'd their moves a success.

[shade darkar]

very good, we are hearing from pac and arum that they want to make the fight. if floyd is happy getting 100 and pac is happy getting 60 then fantastic, make the fight happen. lets see what floyd says tho, wouldnt be surprised to hear another excuse from him to be honest.

[Mayabang]

very good, we are hearing from pac and arum that they want to make the fight. if floyd is happy getting 100 and pac is happy getting 60 then fantastic, make the fight happen. lets see what floyd says tho, wouldnt be surprised to hear another excuse from him to be honest.

Why would Floyd say something? His hardcore fans are already doing a great job speaking for him every since Pac beat Algerie.

[megadeth]

u pulled the same shiiet on me a few weeks back (similar/same). u knew exactly what u meant when u typed that up. u choose to use words like similar and possibly so that if someone do call u out on it u can say u didnt say he made more, etc.

What do u mean "pulled the same shiiet"?? They are clearly different words, with different meanings. When I said SIMILAR, I meant SIMILAR. YOU were the one that claimed I said they were the SAME, when I didn't. I said POSSIBLY because I checked before I said anything and knew that they were both very close in net worth. Hard to believe we are debating this.

[SUBZER0ED]

Exactly:

add up the numbers first

floyd-guerrero :875k buys floyd gets 32 mil
floyd-canelo: 2.2 mil buys floyd gets 41.5 mil
floyd-maidana1: 850k buys floyd gets 32 mil
floyd-maidana2: ??? buys floyd gets 32 mil

Add up all the buys (that are available, since the maidana 2 official numbers aren't out) you get = 3,925,000 buys multiply that by the cost of the ppv ($75) you get a total of $294,375,000

Half of that money is going directly to floyd on guarranteed amounts. So how is it that showtime IS NOT losing money? They are not bringing any profits in, seems like they are just about breaking even.

I don't know if Showtime is losing money on the deal with Mayweather or not. However, I always found it strange that they would invest so much in a fighter so near the end of his career, especially given the boring defensive style he has displayed lately. It's also interesting that HBO apparently did not wish to engage in a giant bid war for Mayweather, which I think was smart. One invests big money in the talented new blood, not the fading old blood.

[junior gong]

Floyd's got his excuse ready. Just watch, they're coming!

[bigjavi973]

Name a stadium that held 45k people at the time? There wasn't one. They can put 100k or more for boxing in Dallas. More people isn't a valid reason.

Really? Damn sucks for chavez bringing in over 100k to one of his fights in mexico

[bigjavi973]

I don't know if Showtime is losing money on the deal with Mayweather or not. However, I always found it strange that they would invest so much in a fighter so near the end of his career, especially given the boring defensive style he has displayed lately. It's also interesting that HBO apparently did not wish to engage in a giant bid war for Mayweather, which I think was smart. One invests big money in the talented new blood, not the fading old blood.

I feel you only the showtime/cbs people are in the know. The only thing for me is that the numbers dont add up. And like some flowmos say, "numbers dont lie"

[Godsfly]

can everyone please shut the **** up...this is good news. stop bashing mayweather stop bashing pac. the fight is closer then ever. lets wait and see how this plays out. don't you want this fight? ok then. lets wait and see what happens. this is brilliant news. calm down with the ******ity..........

[Evol]

What do u mean "pulled the same shiiet"?? They are clearly different words, with different meanings. When I said SIMILAR, I meant SIMILAR. YOU were the one that claimed I said they were the SAME, when I didn't. I said POSSIBLY because I checked before I said anything and knew that they were both very close in net worth. Hard to believe we are debating this.

I'm talking about ur choice of words. When u said floyd is possibly worth as much Or more u're really trying to say floyd is worth more because if they're worth the same then what's the point of U making that statement? What u really was trying to say is that why is arum talking to les moonves when floyd makes more than him but u added "possibly" for instance like this where u can fall back on and say I didn't say floyd is worth more I said possibly.