Comments Thread For: Bernard Hopkins-Carl Froch Rumblings Behind The Scenes

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Going into the Martinez fight, Chavez drew 1.9mil & 1.6mill in his two previous fights, and Martinez was averaging over a mill for all of his fights. Now Julio's numbers have dropped and he'd be fighting a guy in Froch who's never had a million viewers in any of his US cable appearances, throw in a weaker ppv market = they'd be lucky to pull the 325k that Alvarez/Lara got.

At half million views is about $25mill rev, take off half for the distributor, another couple mill for HBO/Show and you're looking at $7mill for Julio w/ $3mill for Carl -ie how they decided the purses for Golovkin/Chavez. Carl Moretti was relieved when Chavez/Golovkin fell through because he thought they'd lose money on the overall deal.

As for Alvarez fighting on the same night, I doubt that noncompetitive card had that much an impact, at the most maybe 10% which keeps it right around a half-mill buys still. And I don't know how you can call a 700k rating massive when you only have one other fight to compare it to. That's pretty much you're typical boxing viewers who watch no matter what.

Go back and read the articles. Here's one.

http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id...-buys-hbo-says

The projection for the fight was 250k

http://www.boxingscene.com/froch-gro...viewers--78575

You're doing your best to revise history and not have any perspective.

[Juof]

I would think if Haymon really wanted to make Chavez-Froch badly, he could use the Mayweather/Pacquiao negotiations as leverage.

I'll be surprised if Froch/Hopkins took place. That's a bad style match-up for Carl and I don't think it would sit well with him to lose to an older version of the man Joe beat.

I agree, Carl might commit suicide