ESPN: Mayweather/Berto shaping up to be a box office dud

[HardSpar]

No surprise there. It's a blatantly shi!t fight and complete mismatch.

[Beercules]

"Something something something yall haters doe TBE!!"

[MasterPlan]

I'm a huge Floyd fan. Have him in my top 3-5 favorite fighters of all time but **** this fight. I won't be watching it. And I might regret it but oh well. If it bombs then so be it. I'm really hoping he returns for a 50th fight, assuming he doesn't get Tyson'd/Buster'd by Berto

If you're a huge fan, why aren't you watching? Many ways if you don't want to shell ou the 65-75 yourself. Go to the movie theater, a bar or strip joint, get together a few buddies.

[Spit Dialect]

What a shocker, a guy who's basically a journeyman fighting the supposed pound for pound fighter is a dud?

Man, I thought this was the real life Rocky!

[Fists_of_Fury]

As a fan you should care because money drives the sport, 'it's a business'.

It also sets a precedent. It's saying to promoters/fighters 'You want to host horrible mismatches? Fine, but it'll cost you'.

I hope this fight fails massively, not because I resent Floyd's success but because it'll hopefully force other fighters to think twice about hosting mismatches, something that has been a cancer to boxing the past few years.

GGG vs Lemieux is on PPV though... some promoters, fighters, tv networks, and "fans" enjoy mismatches apparently(and on PPV at that lol). I agree with everything you said though.

[Dean_Razorback]

i wonder what ellerbe is going to say when floyd comes back next year to fight at least one more time, i don't buy this being his last fight.

[hhs661]

If you're a huge fan, why aren't you watching? Many ways if you don't want to shell ou the 65-75 yourself. Go to the movie theater, a bar or strip joint, get together a few buddies.

Why? because I have the right to choose if I wanna see this **** matchup or not. The name Andre Berto doesn't entice me into me watching this fight. It's not worth the price of admission at a bar(cover charge), theatre or ppv to me

[R_Walken]

In other words, this fight has only sold 12 or 13,000 tickets and the live gate is going to be much smaller than Mayweather/Pacquaio. How shocking! I wonder if this writer will come back in two months and write a blog about how this dud of a fight sold more tickets than GGG/Lemieux and Cotto/Alvarez, had a larger live gate and a larger number of PPV sales than both of those fights? I doubt it! I also doubt that any of the haters who will eat this piece of crap passing itself off as legitimate journalism will say a word about it either.

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Great Post as usual

[spytactics]

I will be QTipping my ears while the phaggot fights Birdo...and it should be more entertaining, as well

[Redeaux]

GGG vs Lemieux is on PPV though... some promoters, fighters, tv networks, and "fans" enjoy mismatches apparently(and on PPV at that lol). I agree with everything you said though.

I agree that Golovkin vs. Lemieux isn't PPV worthy, but it's far more competitive and potentially exciting fight than Mayweather vs. Berto.