Comments Thread For: Canelo-Saunders, Ramirez-Taylor: May 8 Shaping Up To Be Blockbuster Boxing Day

[Eff Pandas]

he is bigger in name but I’m not so sure that he nor dazn should be happy with this. This fight could have a negative impact on his numbers. Obviously canelos dazn numbers didn’t pull in enough subscriptions to justify 35 mil per fight. They never released any numbers for his last fight with smith and it actually made less live gate money in Texas than Spence vs Danny Garcia did. While he may be considered boxing’s face right now, he’s clearly not generating the same interest as boxing’s big names from the previous eras such as a mayweather, pac or Oscar.

Yea but what are Taylor & JCR doing in comparison to Canelo is the situation at hand? Its not about trying to **** measure Canelo historical as a draw vs other draws. That's a whole other conversation & Taylor & JCR aren't in that conversation at all & likely never will be. There's levels to everything.

[Citizen Koba]

I'm with almost everyone else here... if it comes down to a choice beteen the two fights Taylor vs Ramirez is going on the bigger screen with the sound on. Be ready to switch though if Canelo vs Saunders starts to look more interesting than I think it will.

[nino brown21]

They used to have HUGE fights during the Weekdays, Example pretty Sure Leonard VS Hagler was on a Weekday, why do they alll have to be on Saturday Now, They could have one card on May 5th Which I believe is a Wednesday and the other fight could be on Saturday, fans will watch it on any day, and the Celebs would attend big fights whatever day it is.

I like to get nice and drunk while I'm watching the fights without having to worry about work in the morning

[GeordieG]

They used to have HUGE fights during the Weekdays, Example pretty Sure Leonard VS Hagler was on a Weekday, why do they alll have to be on Saturday Now, They could have one card on May 5th Which I believe is a Wednesday and the other fight could be on Saturday, fans will watch it on any day, and the Celebs would attend big fights whatever day it is.

When a big event in the US has one fighter from abroad weekday fights would get no viewers here in the UK (or europe) due to being on 0200 - 0500. I couldn't (regularly) watch live and then work the next day. Agree for domestic fights though, and its something would be good to see here too.

[anonymous2.0]

Either Arum stacks the Ramirez-Taylor card or he moves it and I don't know who he would stack his card with. Also I think Taylor's the one coming in here at the disadvantage, Ramirez had a tough but rust shaking 12 round fight with Postol but Taylor only got what, less then 2 minutes of work? Not enough to shake the rust.

[CmdrSoCal]

Both fights are available on monthly internet subs with replay on demand. There is no direct competition for ratings/PPV sales like with the live TV only days. Ramirez/Taylor will overshadow the DAZN card because it is a better match up and it will be on ESPN and internet.

[rrayvez]

Yea but what are Taylor & JCR doing in comparison to Canelo is the situation at hand? Its not about trying to **** measure Canelo historical as a draw vs other draws. That's a whole other conversation & Taylor & JCR aren't in that conversation at all & likely never will be. There's levels to everything.

what it means is that for actual boxing fans who like fights between two top fighters that may be 50/50, they’d like lean towards the more competitive match up and one way or another will affect canelos viewership. Again, with canelo not being a dominant star, this other fight will have an impact on that.

[Eff Pandas]

what it means is that for actual boxing fans who like fights between two top fighters that may be 50/50, they’d like lean towards the more competitive match up and one way or another will affect canelos viewership. Again, with canelo not being a dominant star, this other fight will have an impact on that.

Anyone who is the #1 draw of their day, like Canelo is, is DEFINITELY a dominant star. Going into some silly ass all time great draws discussion is a conversation I have no desire to get into even less than a normal all time great in the ring sci fi fantasy conversation.

And nothing is gonna impact nothing. Bob would HAVE TO BE a r3tard to put Taylor vs JCR head to head up against Canelo vs BJS. And say what you will about Bob he's not a r3tard. These fights will at absolute worst be scheduled to start & end in unison with the other fight. No one is stepping on anyone else. People will flip channels or go to a different app & watch one fight & then the other. Few make decisions on what to watch or not watch on undercard fights so while the cards may be entangled the main events won't be.

That said I suspect, as previously mentioned, that Bob will either put the fight on May 7 to get all eyes on his show the night before Canelo or he puts it on earlier in the day to take advantage of the UK audience & give UK fans a full day of US events with UK fighters back to back.

[Gideon lock]

Fantastic day of boxing that is.

[El_Mero]

I'm looking forward to the upcoming changes in boxing, Peter. You know Josh Taylor's butt-cheeks are going to be as red as the backside of Billy Joe's neck after a long day of scooping horse poop, when Jose Ramirez bakes and roast the 'Tart-Tomato'.





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fuc.kin hilarious!