Comments Thread For: Schaefer: If Mayweather Returns, I'd Make it Bigger Than Pac Fight

[kurt0411]

Lool no fight will outsell Floyd-Pac.....and the biggest grossing fight still remains a rematch between the two ��. Schaefer is talkin out of his as*

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

Mayweather promoted his last fight with berto as his last bout, an end to his career, the greatest boxer, undefeated, your last chance to watch a virtuoso performance by the purist boxer ever and it FLOPPED only selling 400k ppvs
Majority of fans dont give a crap about a 40 yr old floyd returning
Boxing goes on without him

Let's compare his last fight to other legends last fights. Tyson quit on stool ODH got thrashed Ray Leonard KO'd Stone Hands lost his last fight and 3 of his last 5. Ali lost to freaking Trevor Burbick. Seem like Floyd went out on top without out getting ktfo. He beat a #10 WW champion. And since then only one fight hastopped those 400k ppvs lmao . That means noone cares about GGG he only sold like 100k lmao. You meant nerd fans who ain't never been in a fight don't care. If he came back he'd outsell and generate more money than your favorite boxer.

[daggum]

schaefer returns to boxing a very humble man

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

After reading all of the recent articles I think its safe to say that he wants both Mayweather and Canelo at Star Promotions.

Or maybe he just respects the fighters. I know that is unheard of on boxingscene, but there are people who actually still respect the fighters.

[Mike D]

Schaefer is f**king delusional. Overestimate self worth much?

They could literally put a monkey in any position of his in regards to sales on a Floyd event and it literally would impact it zero.

[Eff Pandas]

I can't see Floyd vs any of the possible suspects from 140 to 160 doing 4.4M or better or whatever the Floyd vs Manny final numbers were.

But respect to Slick Ricky's confidence in himself I guess.

[Teetotaler]

This guy loves to hear himself talk

[hectari]

I forgot about Richard Shaeffers insane ppv predictions lol, everytime Floyd fought he said the fight will break the record of Oscar vs Floyd ppv.

[al-Xander]

Riight. The swiss banker didn't come out when Mayweather was fighting Berto.

This guy takes credit for something any promoter can do. Dibella was the promoter of the Spence/Bundu fight. It got a rating of 6.5 million viewers. The point? Schaefer was at the right time and place when those huge PPV happened. Mosley/Mayweather was destined to do well not because of Schaefer. Same thing with Canelo/Mayweather. People want to see TBE lose. It all started when he ducked the DelaHoya rematch. People who rooted for DLH in the first fight started following him around and see him lose. TBE retired, ducked prime fighters in his division, fought once a year, etc. That made him big UNINTENTIONALLY. People were dying to see him lose.

[Scipio2009]

lets entertain it, how would he make it bigger than may-pac? We're talking $4M buys. Maybe the Cononr McGregor fight lol? I don't even think Floyd-GGG would outdraw May-Pac.

Simple.

Floyd Mayweather needs to come back against a marketable opponent is a deathly serious fight, and every effort needs to be made to max out all available revenue streams.

Here's an idea (though with quite a few moving parts to it):

-Saul Alvarez, on September 2017 and on PPV, stops Gennady Golovkin inside 10 rounds, to become the WBC/WBA/IBF/WBA world middleweight champion. Immediately after the fight, Alvarez speaks empassionately to his fans in Spanish (prefacing what he's going to say) and then, in English, Alvarez looks into the home camera (and in his own style), gives Floyd Mayweather Jr his respect as arguably the best fighter to put on gloves, credits Floyd for what he taught him in the first fight, but makes it absolutely clear that he's in the prime of his life, his skills are sharp, and he wants to face him again.

From then through May 2018, you have Alvarez and Mayweather pike the fever for the fight among the general sports audience; though the MGM Grand is Floyd's building, MGM Resorts has a brand new venue that seats nearly 5,000 more people to also consider (likely near Mayweather-Pacquiao face value prices)

-In addition to Mayweather-Alvarez 2 in the US, you also pair the event with a monster fight card from Wembley in the UK, headlined by Anthony Joshua(c) vs Deontay Wilder(c) for the undisputed/unified heavyweight championship of the world.

-Between the two monster cards, you find slots for the eliminators for the middleweight belts (ie Saunders-EubankJr 2 for the WBO shot on Joshua's card, Lemieux-Khytrov for the WBC shot on the Mayweather card, Anthony Mundine in the WBA mandatory on Mayweather's card, a British fighter getting a shot with the IBF on Joshua's card).

-As an added benefit, by this point nearly 18 months into her run, with two gold medals around her neck, you could even reach with a title shot for Claressa Shields; not sure how accurate, but there are currently two vacant belts at her assumed weight class, but if folks are feeling froggish, they could bring Christina Hammer (top women's middleweight) over, to the US or UK.

-To sweeten the US pot, viewers stateside get an airing (re-airing?) of Joshua-Wilder in the final hard sell before the PPV.


HBOPPV/SHOPPV presents: Generations - Old Lion vs Young Lion
Alvarez(c) vs Mayweather Jr for the undisputed middleweight championship
Lemieux vs. Khytrov, WBC 160 final eliminator
Mundine vs WBA regular champ, WBA 160 final eliminator
[Claressa Shields vs TBA, for a vacant women's 160 belt]

Sky Box Office presents: Undisputed
Joshua(c) vs Wilder(c) for the undisputed heavyweight championship
Saunders vs EubankJr 2, WBO final eliminator
Johnson vs Etches, IBF final eliminator
[Hammer(c) vs Shields for the WBC/WBO women's middleweight titles]

Whether the show hits the 4.4m+ that Maweather=Pacquiao ended up hitting is beyond the point; the fight will likely do a massive number on US PPV, will do massive business in the UK, will do strong PPV business in Canada, will draw massive interest in Mexico/Latin America, and will also draw really strong interest from Germany/Europe, Australia, and the rest of the world (though Asia doesn't have anything on the hypothetical main shows, a quality Asian fighter in a meaningful fight on the PPV lead-in could help draw some interest.

By making all of the different pieces bigger, you end up delivering a far bigger event

note: [] = either/or