Who becomes the next 'PPV Star' after Floyd?

[sicko]

I don't see anybody drawing like Mayweather or Pacquiao anytime soon but I do think Canleo will be that next PPV Draw because of his Mexican Fan Base. Canelo vs Cotto and Canelo vs GGG are the only PPV Worthy Events I can think of in boxing at the moment that doesn't include Mayweather of Pacquiao. Only concern about Canelo is that I'm not sure if he has the talent to maintain at the top of his Division without questionable decisions and being matched up carefully by Oscar

Wilder of course because he is a in shape American Heavyweight with Power so that instantly grabs the attention of Casuals in America.

[Cinci Champ]

hopefully the ppv model dies and no one becomes the ppv star hopefully pac floyd killed ppv

[MrRolltide91]

I say canelo

[krazyn8tive]

Hopefully ppv died with the last one. **** card and **** fight. The most exciting detail was the lead up.

[brickcityboxing]

I say canelo

Not for long ... the blueprint on him is basic. simple movement and he doesn't know what to do. He would need to avoid a whole bunch of guys to stay winning. Monroe who fought GGG wouldve given him fits... Southpaw with movement who's a little bigger than Lara

[Beercules]

Rod Salka IMHO.

[Mitchell Kane]

Manny Pacquiao became a PPV star behind ...careful matchmaking...Top Rank/HBO's media machine

Pacquiao smiles, goes into the ring, fights whatever Top Rank puts in front of him, and goes away.

And that's what Top Rank will tell fighters who are interested in becoming PPV fighters.

As for "hitching" to Mayweather, let's be fair here, Mayweather and Pacquiao both became PPV stars after fighting DLH.

They were both fighting primarily in the sub-400k buy range pre-DLH (though the Pac-Marquez rematch did about 400k).

And in fact, Pacquiao had more PPV main events and more PPV buys in his career prior to DLH than Mayweather had prior to DLH.

Mayweathers pre-DLH PPV career was Gatti, Judah, Baldomir.

Pacquiao had three PPV fights with Morales, PPV fights with Barrera and Marquez, among others all before DLH.

[MrRolltide91]

let canelo beat cotto/ggg in his 2 fights and see how big he becomes

[Scipio2009]

Nice try...it was fighting ODLH, the same guy that put Floyd on the map.

Floyd fought De La Hoya, launching his name with that fight, but also the talking that he did on his own behalf for that fight, fought UK star Ricky Hatton, carrying his end of the promotion behind his mouth, and then hit the American mainstream audience, with with the Wrestlemania participation and his participation with Dancing with the Stars, with his charisma and talking leading the way.

Beating Oscar definitely helped (what version of Oscar actually showed up for the fight, after he weighed in at 145, is another question), but if not for the hype machine and the matchmaking (outside of Hatton, who in hindsight ended up having an apparently unproductive fight camp, the next five fights were all supposed to be cakewalks for Pacquiao against compromised fighters), Pacquiao would've never launched.

He can barely deliver an interview in English now, and this is nearly a decade after he started to bubble.

[Mike D]

Rod Salka IMHO.

Who is Salka's biggest rival? I want to see the HBO At Last version of Salka and his archrival.