Comments Thread For: Arum Still Blames Mayweather-Pacquiao For Boxing's PPV Decline

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Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum still believes Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao is the big reason for boxing's decline in the pay-per-view market. Mayweather-Pacquiao was the most financially successful event in boxing history. It generated over 4.6 million pay-per-view purchases - demolishing the previous record of 2.4 million held by Mayweather's fight with Oscar De La Hoya in 2007.
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[Lester Tutor]

Arum's a loon to in-ring culture, but a rebel in politics and general elections. evens out. green k to Arum. basically saying Mayweather put him and Pac out of business again

#HBO

[Lou Cipher]

It's always bad when a fighter loses then gets a home town decision, is allowed to negotiate non-disclosures with Vada and fails a drug test. Floyd let everyone down, but he's a shameless woman beater so why would ArScum's opinion bother him?

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I knew lots of non-boxing fans who fell for the hype of that fight and thought floyd was some legendary ko artist etc. Saw the fight and their reaction by the 6th round was "are they still warming up?"

Gonna take a while to get people to fall for that kind of thing again but I think it marked the official day that MMA took over

[Motorcity Cobra]

I blame

May-Berto
Pac-Bradley III
Pac-Vargas
Golovkin-Lemieux
Crawford-Postol
Canelo-Smith


People proved they'll still pay for good fights. Canelo-Cotto did 900k.

[SugarAnt05]

Cant blame May-Pac as they were the only ones in their era selling high number of PPV's. The PPV market has always been kind of crappy outside of a few marquee names. Bob the builder is just lining the excuses up for his crappy PPV sales.

[SugarAnt05]

I blame

May-Berto
Pac-Bradley III
Pac-Vargas
Golovkin-Lemieux
Crawford-Postol
Canelo-Smith


People proved they'll still pay for good fights. Canelo-Cotto did 900k.

I would disagree with Crawford/Postol but I forgot that was a PPV fight that should have been a WCB fight.

[AL_Camino]

The fight is a big reason for the decline. I knew a few people who never watched boxing, and tuned into pac vs floyd. Safe to say they haven't watched the sport since.

[AL_Camino]

It was such a greed show. The prices, the crowd wasn't even into the show because they were all celebrities and wealthy people who do not even follow boxing. So lack of crowd excitement lead to silence during every fight except the main event. The real fans of the sport were screwed that night due to greed

[Motorcity Cobra]

The fight is a big reason for the decline. I knew a few people who never watched boxing, and tuned into pac vs floyd. Safe to say they haven't watched the sport since.

Why did Cotto -Canelo do so well?