How Severely Did Mayweather vs Pacquiao Ruin Boxing's Popularity?

[FlatLine]

Mayweather vs Pacquiao was built up to be the biggest fight ever in boxing but it turned out to be a dull, boring typical Mayweather, connect-the-dots, survival fest.

After that fight it seems a lot of casual fans fell off the map and many months later we can see that PPV numbers have dropped more dramatically than they have done for a long time for many of the PPVs that followed. The numbers don't lie.

So how severely did the terribly anti-climatic Mayweather vs Pacquiao debacle tarnish boxing's worldwide credibility, reputation and popularity?

Did it essentially have the reverse effect to that which we would have hoped for as boxing fans wishing to see the sport thrive and prosper as a result of such a huge event? Did the unforgivably poor "fight" that was Mayweather vs Pacquiao prove to be the catalyst that sends boxing even further down the totem poll of popular sports on an irreversible trajectory towards complete obscurity?

Or, can those rare exciting fighters like Khan, Degale, Crawford and Wilder pull boxing back up out of this terrible abyss created by Floyd and Manny?

[nubianpiye]

It didn't impact it at all and the numbers haven't fallen at all. PPV numbers are back where they were before may weather and pax were the anomaly generally most Ppv fights have never sold a mill plus. And by you trying to act like they did just shows that I ou haven't been following the sport for long.

The Canelo Cotto fight was a huge success with its ppv numbers and return to what PPV numbers were generally before Floyd and pay came on Feb scene.

Even de la Hoya who
Is considered a huge Ppv draw didn't have a huge amount of milk plus Ppv fights. So stop using spin to change history.

[R_Walken]

What the ???

Yes Mayweather & Pac ruined boxing by being ATG , between the two of them beating pretty much every significant name in their path and creating this generation of boxing fans biggest rivalry and culminating in biggest financial boxing event ever 6 months ago.

But it's all good because Khan is going to be the one to save it.

That's what you wanted to hear right.

[FlatLine]

It didn't impact it at all and the numbers haven't fallen at all. PPV numbers are back where they were before may weather and pax were the anomaly generally most Ppv fights have never sold a mill plus. And by you trying to act like they did just shows that I ou haven't been following the sport for long.

The Canelo Cotto fight was a huge success with its ppv numbers and return to what PPV numbers were generally before Floyd and pay came on Feb scene.

Even de la Hoya who
Is considered a huge Ppv draw didn't have a huge amount of milk plus Ppv fights. So stop using spin to change history.

You're the one that's putting a spin on things. De La Hoya projected that Canelo-Cotto would do 1.5 to 2 million but it only hit 900k. That was only labelled a "success" compared to GGG who had abysmally low numbers recently but in reality it was well below the projected expectation and so effectively it was a "failure" in terms of expectations.

Had that fight happened before Manny vs Floyd it may well have hit the 1.5 to 2 million projection threshold but after that fight hundreds of thousands of casual fans just jumped ship altogether and so Canelo-Cotto was left with roughly half the numbers that were expected.

[R_Walken]

You're the one that's putting a spin on things. De La Hoya projected that Canelo-Cotto would do 1.5 to 2 million but it only hit 900k. That was only labelled a "success" compared to GGG who had abysmally low numbers recently but in reality it was well below the projected expectation and so effectively it was a "failure" in terms of expectations.

Had that fight happened before Manny vs Floyd it may well have hit the 1.5 to 2 million projection threshold but after that fight hundreds of thousands of casual fans just jumped ship altogether and so Canelo-Cotto was left with roughly half the numbers that were expected.

You honestly believe that fight between 2 fighters that Mayweather beat convincingly and had 1.5 & 2.1 million PPV that a fight between those two would do 1.5 - 2 and neither being American?

[Spoon23]

You should ask the running hugger who took peds.

He was the bigger man and still hugged like his life depended on it. Ask him why he got booed after being announced the winner in the MGM arena.

If a boxer thinks boxing is a marathon event then maybe his in the wrong sport? Ask him bud maybe he knows why he fights like a vagina hehe

[Luilun]

Enough that there will never be a PPV event that does more than 2 million

[IMDAZED]

As much as Tyson-Holyfield II did

As much as DLH-Tito did

As much as Oscar-Floyd did

[piojo del norte]

It did around my office, we had guys and gals excited who went out their regular weekend routine to watch this fight and were disappointed by the price and the lack of action.

What I did to slightly improve their perception regarding boxing was I sent them the fight that was on the weekend after...

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

not one bit!

theirs 3 type of fans

Boxing fans (us who watch majority of all fights)

Casual fans (those who only watch big fights that get hyped)

1 timers (those who never watched a boxing match in its entirety that just order may vs pac for the thrills)

these 3 groups are still their and will still come watch the fights once a fight targets their demographic.