Fights that deserved the May/Pac payday

[Crazylegs77]

Ill start.

Marquez vs Vazquez

[Reloaded]

No fight deserves what they made in that fight , it is so far away from the rest of boxing it hurts the sport from the inside out , that fight meshed together a very special set of circumstances too pull that off , going to take a very long time if ever before we see that again .

[BM dnobagaV]

It was the delay that Floyd/Arum pulled off that spiked it so high.

They could've fought in 2010, for 50m each, with Pacquiao likely winning a decision. Then boxing goes back to the dark ages immediately until someone like Tyson 2.0 (Wilder if he wasn't a ******) would regenerate interest where it has to be generated (at the heavyweight level).

[screwhead1]

There is no universe where pac could have won and no universe where 4.6 mill ppv's will happen again unless it's '88 tyson vs a live gorilla....

[gmc_rfc_06]

Nobody.

Those two are ATG's and were on incredible runs. Mayweather was always going to win, the delay just made them both a lot richer.

[soul_survivor]

No fight deserves what they made in that fight , it is so far away from the rest of boxing it hurts the sport from the inside out , that fight meshed together a very special set of circumstances too pull that off , going to take a very long time if ever before we see that again .

Agreed entirely!

I think there's too much money involved in sports anyway.

However, I understand the sentiment in this thread, basically: which fight was actually worth big money and I'll put in some british domestic dust ups:

Mathew Macklin v Jamie Moore, what a tough, hard, action packed fight!

Derry Matthews v Tommy Coyle, one of the greatest comebacks in recent years

Kevin Mitchell v John Murray, a real war of attrition

[Earl-Hickey]

That fight will be eclipsed if Wilder and Joshua keep on winning for the next couple of years.

A heavyweight unification Wilder vs Joshua would eclipse two old midgets past their primes