when Was the Last Big Hype Middleweight Fight?

[daggum]

quillin-zerafa

[Cuban Linx]

Martinez vs. Chavez Jr. was a really big deal back in 2012. It also did very well on PPV, with 475K buys.

[-Kev-]

Last big hype meaning PPV success?

MW PPV's the past 15 years:

Pavlik-Taylor II - 250k
Cotto-Martinez - 350k
Chavez Jr-Martinez - 475k
De La Hoya-Hopkins - 1,000,0000
Trinidad-Hopkins - 475k
Trinidad-Wright - 510k
Trinidad-Mayorga - 420k
Hopkins-Taylor - 370k
Hopkins-Taylor II - 410k

[Build That Wall]

Hopkins vs Triniwrap

[-Kev-]

Crazy thing about Cotto-Martinez is that people thought it was a mismatch in Martinez's favor, which is why it did poorly. People were saying even Martinez at 60% would KO Cotto

[GTTofAK]

Pavlik-Taylor

There is really no comparing the division now to what it was in the early to mid 00s.

[bojangles1987]

Cotto vs. Martinez was definitely big hype. Hopkins/Trinidad was pretty damn immense as well.

[daggum]

Last big hype meaning PPV success?

MW PPV's the past 15 years:

Pavlik-Taylor II - 250k
Cotto-Martinez - 350k
Chavez Jr-Martinez - 475k
De La Hoya-Hopkins - 1,000,0000
Trinidad-Hopkins - 475k
Trinidad-Wright - 510k
Trinidad-Mayorga - 420k
Hopkins-Taylor - 370k
Hopkins-Taylor II - 410k

ggg-lemieux prob will do the worst out of all of those. ggg is garbage

[daggum]

Crazy thing about Cotto-Martinez is that people thought it was a mismatch in Martinez's favor, which is why it did poorly. People were saying even Martinez at 60% would KO Cotto

yeah but martinez was at 0% so it wasn't really a fight. he could barely walk. duped for millions and destroyed the 160 division for years to come with his trickery.

[krazyn8tive]

ggg-lemieux prob will do the worst out of all of those. ggg is garbage

You're crazy. If anything, Canadians will buy this fight in big number. GGG-Lemiuex will do very well.