De La Hoya the Undisputed PPV KIng

Financially, that's great for DLH. But is that what the main focus is nowadays? I thought great fights against great fighters was the interest. DLH falls short in that category, especially since he took flight in the last 3 rounds of the biggest fight of his career.

 

Hmmm. I'm quite sure in my memory FMJ vs ODLH generated 2.4 buys. Can someone confirm?

 

Even then, it's still a no contest. Tyson was and is a far greater draw that DLH. But he was helped by the fact that he was an american heavyweight.


DLH is considered the king of the lower weights but Tyson is the PPV King.


And new post tonight (april 22) I think Floyd and Pac are greater draws than DLH.

 

It was 2.4 not 2.15

 

After getting bored tonight.

DLH is far from the king of PPV.

That clearly goes to Tyson.

And if things keep up for Manny and Floyd, there are going to breeze by DLH in no time, if they already haven't.


DLH just like every other fighter in this sport, needed a good B side to have a high PPV success.

I took De La Hoya's PPVs added them together and divided them by the number of events he did.

I did the same for Mayweather and Pac.

DLH came out to be at 729k average per PPV. Which is extremely good.

Pac came out to be 608k, which is very good.

Mayweather came out to be 903k.


Tyson though, average over 1 million buys after 12 PPVs.



And if you go through the list of DLH, you can see that all his extremely successful PPVs came with a name on the other end, while the ones that didn't came out to be what use to be considered "good" for PPV (we are so use to Pac and Floyds numbers now)

DLH broke 1 million, 4 times in his 19 fight PPV career.

Pac and Floyd both have done it twice in extremely less amount of time.

Both if they continue to fight, both will easily and should probably be considered far more popular as a PPV figure than DLH.

 

holyfield and tyson were bigger draws, but mostly because they were big exciting heavyweights.

 

One of the very few fighters I don't think will ever need money in retirement.

 

Easily, but I think Floyd and Pac have passed DLH now for the lower weights, of course not all time but the numbers and averages speak for themselves.

 

If they had 24/7 back when Tito-ODLH that would definitely have more buys than ODLH-May. In fact instead of having 12.6 hed have more like 18 or 19 million. 24/7 has gotten the casual fan into purchasing these events which has helped Pac and May even more. Id bet you Vargas-Oscar numbers would have doubled had they had 24/7 back then.

 

They also weren't in a recession then as well.

 

Yeah,people have to put into account that Oscar did all this as a non heavyweight.

So yes,IMO he is the all time PPV king.

 

exactly

 

Oscar is the last fighter to label as a fighter that didn't fight the fights.

Just check his resume for his time.

 

Its the quality of opposition. De La Hoya was fighting the best out there and those you mention were the best at that time. Right now for Pac and Floyd they don't have any BIG names out there that can bring them up to 1 million other than fighting each other, which would be one of the biggest, if not the biggest buy in history of boxing. But other than them fighting each other, nothing better (PPV wise) is out there for them. Don't get me wrong there are good fights with some 140pounders and some 154pounders but it won't break any PPV records with them, it will jsut be GOOD fights.

 

It's funny how people call Mayweather Jr. crazy for saying he is the #1 PPV draw yet, Oscar sold twice as many PPVs with Floyd than he had with ANY other fighter. :think