Comments Thread For: Roach: Crawford Who? That Won't Sell, Pacquiao-Garcia Will!

[Motorcity Cobra]

But they wanted Broner doe!!!!

Before that Postol vs. Crawford fight Roach didn't have a problem fighting Crawford. Since he saw Crawford up close and personal he's been making all type of excuses not to take the fight.

[Motorcity Cobra]

Floyd: 4.6M
Tim I: 890K
Tim II: 750K
Tim III: 400K

Top Rank would jizz in their pants if Pacquiao touched any of those numbers again.

Pacquiao vs. Clottey: 700k

Roach is just making shit up

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That's pretty clickbaity.

It's true that Mexican vs anything is guaranteed to sell in the Americas while Filipino vs black fight doesn't enjoy that sort of guarantee (esp from Nebraska).

Criticize Roach for basically admitting they're hand selecting foreign opponents for bonus retirement money, but he didn't really say what's in the title.

[b00g13man]

Looooooooooool

[Motorcity Cobra]

That's pretty clickbaity.

It's true that Mexican vs anything is guaranteed to sell in the Americas while Filipino vs black fight doesn't enjoy that sort of guarantee (esp from Nebraska).

Criticize Roach for basically admitting they're hand selecting foreign opponents for bonus retirement money, but he didn't really say what's in the title.

Roach said he didn’t want the Crawford fight because, with the exception of Floyd Mayweather Jr., Pacquiao's previous bouts against African-American boxers didn’t sell well in the US.

[Pigeons]

Pacquiao vs. Clottey: 700k

Roach is just making shit up

Clottey's just African bro.

[Eff Pandas]

Is Horn part Mexican?

Manny Top 5 PPV's
#1 All Time Floyd (2015) 4M+ Black Guy
#13/tie All Time Oscar (2008) 1.25M+ Mexican American Guy
#13/tie All Time Miguel (2009) 1.25M+ Puerto Rican Guy
#13/tie All Time JMM (2011) 1.25M+ Mexican Guy
#17/tie All Time SSM (2011) 1.2M+ Black Guy

There's more black guys (2) then Mexican guys (1.5) in his top 5

And his bottom 5 post the Oscar fight that made him a super star:

Vargas (2016) 300k Mexican American Guy
Algieri (2014) 350k White Guy
Bradley (2016) 400k Black Guy
Rios (2013) 475k Mexican American Guy
Clottey (2010) 700k African Guy

I'd argue that's cuz he got KTFO & looked dead vs JMM in 2012 more than anything to do with race with all his numbers & where they have went. Floyd vs Manny was an anomaly. Manny's A side numbers have never recovered the wrath of JMM 5 years ago. The fact that Manny can still even do PPV's as the A side after getting slept like that is a testament to how popular he is, but he's never doing big numbers as the A side ever again whoever he fights.

[Golden Boi 360]

Roach doesn't want anything to do with Crawford. Any excuse to duck.

Jeff Horn fight will do 97K, literally

Let's be honest with ourselves, Pacquiao isn't fighting any top fighters, he just wants some easy pay days before he retires

[Xi_]

This overrated joke coach roach is funny.....if african american fighters don't sell, why was tim bradley a ppv fight and why is the jeff hornacek on regular hbo tv?

[E-Thug]

Clottey's just African bro.

Bro you missed out the Mosley numbers when he fought pacquiao on showtime