Santos Saúl Álvarez Barragán vs. William Joseph Saunders/Elwin Soto Castro v. Katsunari Takayama RBR

Goddamn. Love him or revile him, Canelo really is the conversation piece of the sport nowadays.

This somehow, with only a so-so undercard, became the second most replied to RBR of all time, behind only Pacquiao vs. Bradley I, and 37th most replied-to of threads in the General Forum (and just barely top 50 including all the other sub-forums).

It was only around 12k posts during the main event ring walks and pageantry. Nothing to sneeze at but that shouldn't have put it on pace to break records. As of the stoppage it was already on the verge of passing Mayweather vs. Maidana I to knock on the door of top five, and in the course of the ensuing arguments dragging overnight and into the morning it surpassed the rest of Mayweather's entries (versus Cotto and Guerrero) as well as Joshua's highest pair (Ruiz II and Parker) to claim the number two spot.

 

I guess Takayama's brave display elevated the co-main to generate more buzz than it might have been expected to...eight pages of everyone railing against the stoppage is a significant disruption, but from the first bell until everyone dropping the subject and moving on to Canelo vs. BJS was only 23 pages in all (p49-71). Saunders' takeover in the 5th-7th inspired a good 15+ pages and then Canelo's turnaround eighth yielded about half a dozen more before the stoppage...and 825, or nearly a third of the whole thread, has been dedicated to post-mortem.

 

XenForo doesn't really have any intuitive way to view such a metric, if they even log it. Maybe at the admin level? But definitely not for regular users or even mods.

That's an interesting thought, however - what threads received the most unique individuals replying and which of the highest ranked ones actually just had echo chambers of a relatively small but extremely vocal contingent.

 

Which is the "1", IYO?

...and how married are you to giving Canelo the rest (of the 1st or 4th-7th, minus the one you gave him)? Gomez and Morticia Addams married, or like Joey and Mary Jo Buttafuoco married?