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I haven't been this excited for a fight since Larry Holmes took on the great Art Card back in '91.
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Crawford is a whole different type of fighter compared to Floyd. Mayweather is content with simply beating u by points. TC is a mean dude that wants to punish a MF'er in an essence he still hungry & wants that cred. This ain't 08' Manny takes a beating vs. Crawford.Comment
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"F@cking sign it you ungrateful little ****"
"Yes Sir Uncle Bob me so sorry"Comment
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so i guess this is the world tour Arum was talking aboutComment
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Gross. Why waste his time with this garbage fight.Comment
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Bob Arum can sell ice to an Eskimo:
October 23, 2014:
“I think we did quite well going back to last November,” believes Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum. “We did 475,000 buys for the Brandon Rios fight, a fight which took place outside (the United States), and which I thought was a great number.
“Now, with Chris Algieri getting the type of attention he's getting, the fight is getting exposure we've never had before. For example, I don't ever remember —maybe in the Ali days it was different—a fight getting an article in the New Yorker magazine, the way this one has.”
Still, there are other factors to take into consideration.
Pacquiao’s win over Bradley in their rematch this past April underperformed at the box office, generating a reported 750,000 PPV buys. The number was well down from their first fight in June ’12, which sold 900,000 units for a fight in which Bradley was fighting as a PPV headliner (even as the B-side) for the first time, and relatively unknown beyond the sport’s hardcore base.
The industry was far more familiar with Bradley by the time he once again met Pacquiao in the ring. Sandwiched in between was his 2013 Fight of the Year war with Ruslan Provodnikov last March and a close-but-clear points win in October over Juan Manuel Marquez—who knocked Pacquiao out cold the prior December.
Though coming off of the biggest win of his career, Algieri fights on PPV for the first time in his career.
Still, it’s not what takes place inside the ring that necessarily drives pay-per-view success, but more so familiarity among the mainstream audience.
It is here where Arum believes the upcoming event will shine, given Algieri’s backstory – a college-educated, undefeated fighter from New York who has demanded the attention of several sources not always giving boxing the necessary coverage.
“If you ask people who watch Fox Business News, where Algieri has been on numerous occasions, which fighter they knew better, Chris Algieri or Tim Bradley, they will say Chirs Algeiri,” Arum acknowledges. “Now, among fight fans, they may not know Algieri as well as Tim, a well-established fighter. Among the general public, they know Chris Algieri better than they know most fighters.
“Therefore we believe we'll do a number akin to what we did with the Manny-Bradley (fights) anywhere between 750,000-900,000 buys.”
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Preach. If anything, I hope it happens. For sure it would be a good fight and better than this Horn ****.
We haven't seen Manny at 140 for a while though so much depends on what weight it would be at and how they both adapt to that I guess.
Exciting time with both Spence and Crawford poised and ready to break through.Comment
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