Who becomes the next 'PPV Star' after Floyd?

[Scipio2009]

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.

Floyd use the shine of fighting ODLH, a fight that he basically took on the short end of a 75/25 to launch his "Money" Mayweather persona, continue it forward with the Hatton fight, and then cement his standing behind the stellar performance at Wrestlemania and his participation on Dancing with the Stars. By the time he came back to boxing, you could throw Floyd in with basically any fighter and he'd not only do massive business for that fight, the fight he fought, after the loss, became a somewhat viable star on their own, if they hadn't been before hand.

Pacquiao, even after getting the Golden Boy rub, pause, still needed to be in the ring with a name value opponent to draw his buys.

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Beyond that, there was no extra push for the guys who ended up fighting Pacquiao (matchmaking reasons or otherwise)

[deathofaclown]

I hope there is no "PPV star" - only PPV fights.

When you have PPV stars, you end up with fights such as Manny v Algieri or Floyd v Guerrero as a PPV by default. Neither of which should be PPV.

So i would rather see PPV fights where it's a highly anticipated fight between 2 top fighters.

[FlatLine]

Khan is already the next PPV star, if he'd fought Floyd or Pac the viewing figures could have been well over 5 million, give or take a few million.

[LacedUp]

Canelo & GGG I would think.

Maybe Deontay Wilder one day.

[LacedUp]

Khan is already the next PPV star, if he'd fought Floyd or Pac the viewing figures could have been well over 5 million, give or take a few million.

lol. Khan is not a PPV star past, present or future.