Mayweather Did More Damage to Boxing Than the UFC Ever Did

[-Kev-]

Floyd was and still is a big PPV attraction. Before him, it was DLH and Tyson. And there really was no in between. His name even helped Arum sell Pacquiao to the fans and made him a very good PPV draw by fighting Mayweather’s scraps like Hatton, DLH, Mosley and was even knocked out by JMM at 147 three years after Floyd schooled him. While avoiding a Mayweather fight due to not wanting to take olympic style drug testing.

Canelo, Teofimo, Ryan Garcia, and Tank Davis are the only other young fighters who have potential to be big. Canelo because he has a rep that he takes on everyone. And the rest of the guys because they also want to take on eachother and have good boxing personalities.

Selling a boxing star has to do with something in their personality, or character. For example, DLH - Olympic Gold winner, a pretty boy who can fight. So he was advertised to the female population but could also fight.

Tyson - Just a bad motherf.cker who said crazy sh.t on the mic like a WWF Superstar. Also a crazy KO artist. Very controversial personality, very polarizing. He wasn’t necessarily a darling in the media. A lot of people, and fans, hated Tyson. He became more beloved by everyone when more information came out on “why” he is like he is. Which is a tough upbringing that really wasn’t solely his fault.

Mayweather, a trash talking, black boxer who won’t lose. Collected really good wins from 130 through 154. Titles, accomplishments. Resume littered with popular boxing names like DLH, Mosley, Pacquiao, Canelo, Cotto, Gatti, Hatton, Corrales, Marquez and other tough opponents like Hernandez, Castillo, Maidana, Jesus Chavez, Judah, Guerrero. Many fans hate him, but those fans’ favorite fighter probably would love to have Floyd’s resume, skills, and money.

[djtmal]

That isn’t true. The Floyd threads get made regardless of whether he has an exhibition or not.

There are threads about his clothes, girlfriends, kids, watches, shoes , cars etc.

One of you ***************boys even made a thread about his hair plugs.

You really gotta hate a mofo to make threads about his watches and his hair plugs.

Whats worse is, you defending him in the threads about his hair plugs...

Larry complains about people making Floyd threads and the next day makes a Floyd thread...

You Larry and Iron Dan combined over 150,000 posts mostly defending Floyd....

Roadblock will respond to every single post that isn't kissing floyd's a**.....

Despite all of this being the truth, your nut a** will still say, it isn't true....

Floyd Boys are the biggest hypocrites...and psychos..on this board..always the other guy....nothing ever sticks to floyd he ain't never ducked nobody or cherrypicked a fight ever despite evidence to the contrary....thats why most guys on here take what you guys say with a grain of salt....

If Floyd would have just beat the best guys in their prime these threads wouldn't gain any traction...

[QueensburyRules]

- -PAC set all the Ring p4p records that ain't never gonna be broken.

In spite of Goldenboy animas for him as an Arum fighter. Settled history, so what U TBE TUE 51-0 Nancys really moaning about?

[HewJohnson]

Floyd was and still is a big PPV attraction. Before him, it was DLH and Tyson. And there really was no in between. His name even helped Arum sell Pacquiao to the fans and made him a very good PPV draw by fighting Mayweather’s scraps like Hatton, DLH, Mosley and was even knocked out by JMM at 147 three years after Floyd schooled him. While avoiding a Mayweather fight due to not wanting to take olympic style drug testing.

Canelo, Teofimo, Ryan Garcia, and Tank Davis are the only other young fighters who have potential to be big. Canelo because he has a rep that he takes on everyone. And the rest of the guys because they also want to take on eachother and have good boxing personalities.

Selling a boxing star has to do with something in their personality, or character. For example, DLH - Olympic Gold winner, a pretty boy who can fight. So he was advertised to the female population but could also fight.

Tyson - Just a bad motherf.cker who said crazy sh.t on the mic like a WWF Superstar. Also a crazy KO artist. Very controversial personality, very polarizing. He wasn’t necessarily a darling in the media. A lot of people, and fans, hated Tyson. He became more beloved by everyone when more information came out on “why” he is like he is. Which is a tough upbringing that really wasn’t solely his fault.

Mayweather, a trash talking, black boxer who won’t lose. Collected really good wins from 130 through 154. Titles, accomplishments. Resume littered with popular boxing names like DLH, Mosley, Pacquiao, Canelo, Cotto, Gatti, Hatton, Corrales, Marquez and other tough opponents like Hernandez, Castillo, Maidana, Jesus Chavez, Judah, Guerrero. Many fans hate him, but those fans’ favorite fighter probably would love to have Floyd’s resume, skills, and money.

Manny was an enormous PPV seller because he his fan friendly style of boxing, high offensive output, and spectacular KO’s, not to mention his very likeable humble personality.

He’s still outselling most of the current boxers today and he’s 43 years old.

And he holds records in the top 20 highest selling PPV events.

[Roadblock]

Manny was an enormous PPV seller because he his fan friendly style of boxing, high offensive output, and spectacular KO’s, not to mention his very likeable humble personality.

He’s still outselling most of the current boxers today and he’s 43 years old.

And he holds records in the top 20 highest selling PPV events.

Manny vs Cotto 1.25 mill buys
Manny vs Oscar 1.25 mill buys.

Floyd vs Cotto 1.5 mill buys
Floyd vs Oscar 2.4 mill buys

Seems nowhere near as many people want to watch Manny in his biggest fights, all roads lead to Mayweather.

[KillaMane26]

Stopped reading after that BIG LIE.


Casuals watching a defensive genius pot shot and hold and run all night?!?!


LMFAO

THE BIG DUMB

Floyd ran casuals AWAY from the sport! It was the complete opposite!

No no no.

Yes he ran people away but his fights were must see events which is weird cuz his style wasn't fan friendly.

But that's a BS to disregard how many people bought his PPVs and watched his fights.

You can't have that many PPV buys without alot of casuals being involved.

That's common sense Hewie

[Roadblock]

No no no.

Yes he ran people away but his fights were must see events which is weird cuz his style wasn't fan friendly.

But that's a BS to disregard how many people bought his PPVs and watched his fights.

You can't have that many PPV buys without alot of casuals being involved.

That's common sense Hewie

The casuals started to see the ability as he made great fighters look ordinary, its like when a superstar racehorse emerges the casuals come in numbers, casuals like to be able to say they seen a great .

Floyd is an ATG and the casual crowd became aware of it, Floyds PPV number will take a long time to beat , he was getting 1 mill buys of Guerrero, his worst got what the best get now.

[KillaMane26]

The casuals started to see the ability as he made great fighters look ordinary, its like when a superstar racehorse emerges the casuals come in numbers, casuals like to be able to say they seen a great .

Floyd is an ATG and the casual crowd became aware of it, Floyds PPV number will take a long time to beat , he was getting 1 mill buys of Guerrero, his worst got what the best get now.

I get people dislike him but the numbers speak for themselves.

[Armchairhero]

Yes they do that a lot. There are MMA boards and they should just stay there.

I love both, I tell you what tho it’s extremely rare i’ll Watch a full boxing bill anymore, most of the time I only tune in for the main fight. And I’m far from a casual as us uk guys are the ones that get up in the middle of the morning to watch live.
The UFC bills on the other hand are competitive and exciting 9/10 and worth watching start to finish.

[Butt stuff]

UFC might eventually have be the savior of boxing. It shows that making the tough fights and having one belt per division is vastly superior in entertainment for viewers and fans.

There's so much money and history in boxing that this model could actually be done better in boxing, with fighter pay in boxing being well above MMA pay – but of course it's very unlikely for that to happen with all the promoters and organisations.