Comments Thread For: De La Hoya: Canelo-Khan Winner Becomes The Man' In Boxing

[Larry the boss]

Kovalev-Ward winner is the man in boxing.

^^^^^^^truth

[Larry the boss]

Last time I checked, Manny was the "man" in boxing. Every since May 2nd, he has been the best fighter in the sport, hands down. Last Saturday night, he became the only fighter in history to win 5 Lineal titles. Smh. Wow. GGG, Ward, Crawford, Fury, and everyone else can suck on that!!!!!!!1 Until someone ACTUALLY defeats Manny without cheating or controversy, he is "THE MAN".

[thack]

Oscar made this silly fight and now he's trying to sell this silly fight ....silly man

[NELSONMELENDEZ2]

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Oscar with his senseless comments. Canelos YOUR man and khan cant be the man. It should be the loser is done in boxing.

[HAY-B]

Oscar you have by far the most popular fighter in the sport now that Pac and Money May are gone. Please stop trying to sell it as the winner of the fight will be the man. You have him already in your stable.

Like usual your trying to get in your own way and act like a used car sellsman. Stop. It does nothing but hurt your product and make you look foolish.

I agree. If Canelo loses it won't hurt his drawing power. All it would show is that he has issues with guys with speed that can box/move. That, we already know. Even is Khan KO'd Canelo he'll still be the biggest fight in the 154 or 160 lb division.
I believe most people feel Khan is going to lose (likely by KO) and I am of the same belief. However should Khan win (even by a KO) he won't be able to draw any more folks than he would normally.

I look at ODLH's statement like this:
Did Rigo gain more notoriety, fortune, or fame beating Donaire? NO
Did Randall gain more notoriety, fortune, or fame beating Chavez Sr.? NO

So why would anybody truly expect Khan to become the more popular or bigger drawing fighter if he beat Canelo?
Bottom line Canelo is the draw right now and will be the draw after this fight win or lose. Even if Canelo fightes GGG and gets stomped he'll still be the biggest draw.

[Fetta]

Kovalev-Ward winner is the man in boxing.

No winner of that fight becomes number 1 and will be considered the best fighter on the planet but as for the "man" in boxing, it is Canelo ATM

[MC Hammer]

???? No one is talking about this fight??? There's like two articles a day on this site alone talking about the fight. ESPN and Ring Magazine write articles all the time about this fight. Most websites don't even have the nose bleed $150 and $250 tickets available anymore. I'll beat you it sales more then Pac vs. Bradley? It will do more then 650k buys. Laugh now and I'll laugh to later.

This is fight even has a VERY good undercard.

Articles are written about every ppv fight. Hell ggg Lemeuix had tons and still did 97K, that fight also proved that arena sellouts don't equal ppv views (that point aside the nosebleeds go quick). Selling more than that retread fight between pac and Bradley isn't a big deal and the undercard sucks. The chief support is between two losers in Tapia and Lemeuix.

[Bronx2245]

Canelo will be the king if he wins in May! Dan Rafael is reporting that he spoke to Arum about Pac vs. Bradley III, and it's looking like PPV numbers are between 400-500K! I'm sure Canelo vs. Khan will beat that easily, and Canelo vs. GGG would easily surpass 1 million buys:

http://www.badlefthook.com/2016/4/12/11416190/bob-arum-estimates-low-numbers-for-manny-pacquiao-timothy-bradley-iii

[whatismyname]

Khan barely beat Chrissie Algieri and Khan has little power. Listen to the BearCat one of the world's most renowned experts on the fight game and hear that Canelo set up Khan as an easy fight and a sure win over a hated despised pariah scum bag rag head arab in Khan. Boxing powers to be all hate the Kubla Khan and that is fact. Khan is being the pig led to slaughter and is being made a spectacle hated outlet for hate of all those like oily greasy Khan who are despised in the world today. Listen and learn. All society those that actually matter want Khan dissected and destroyed violently.

Fact from the BEARCAT

All you ***** ass racists really like to come out on NSB..you probably the same type of mothe****a that talks racist **** on the internet but in real life you probably videotape ur wife getting ****ed by a black man

[Bronx2245]

April 13, 2016:

Pacquiao is such a huge star that there were probably a million question surrounding his return. Would his shoulder hold up? At 37, had he lost a step? Has he lost some of that hunger? Is this his last fight? Would he come back to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr? How many pay-per-views will he sell?

That last one is a fair question. In 2012, when Pacquiao met Bradley for the first time, the fight attracted 890,000 pay-per-view buys. The 2014 follow-up generated roughly 800,000 more buys, and Pacquiao has long been considered a box-office attraction.

The first numbers are coming in for this past weekend's fight and the numbers are down considerably. Promoter Bob Arum spoke prior to the fight about having 700,000 buys as the goal for Pacquiao-Bradley 3, but early numbers have this fight coming in closer to 450,000 pay-per-vew buys...

Another interesting number that has popped up regarding boxing pay-per-views is the emergence of England's Heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua. Fighting in a market 1/6 the size of the American market in the U.K., early numbers reported by ESPN's Dan Rafael have Joshua's bout with Charles Martin drawing over 400,000 pay-per-views.

http://www.thesweetscience.com/news/articles-frontpage/22210-pacquiao-may-be-back-but-his-drawing-power-is-waning