Over/Under: 300K buys for Triple G vs Lemieux?

hoping for the under, if it sells well it'll encourage hbo to put on more ****ty ppvs.

 

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Next time we might get 2 fights that are 30-1 favourites instead of 17-1

 

Actually if it sells well it will be greater encouragement for the Cotto/ Canelo winner to fight him. And then that would be a huge fight and the winner of that would create the new cash cow in boxing.

Obviously you don't want that to happen because none of them are Black Americans on PEDs who beat up women.

 

Under. I'm thinking 250k range.

 

I'm not really interested in seeing that fight. Cotto and Canelo are really LMWs, and Cotto could still fight at WW. I want to see GGG against Degale or Ward.

 

Over. I'm going to predict 425-450K.

 

Canelo has so many Mexican fans that he could do decent PPV numbers against anybody. Not so sure about Cotto. Especially after Canelo ruins him on November 21st.

 

Then say Golovkin is a huge star after beating Cotto/ Canelo then fights Ward or DeGale, and who wins that would be a big star, so wanting the PPV to fail is shooting yourself in the foot.

If you got what you wanted and GGG moved up to Super Middleweight now and lost to Ward, it will be about as good for the Sport in general as it was for the lower weight divisions when Donaire who was creating a buzz and building into a big star lost to Rigondeaux. What did that achieve? Nobody wants to see Rigo fight, and he hardly ever does (similar to Ward) and GGG like Donaire back then would have his raising commercial value ruined and have people switching off from the sport and less viewers equal less big fights.

 

Not really. Ward will never be a huge star even if GGG beats Canelo/Cotto and Ward schools him. Casuals can't appreciate Wards skill, and Ward isn't going to play the bad guy role like Floyd.

 

I do think Canelo will fight him come what may if he wins (not sure Cotto will but I don't completely rule it out), but if GGG v Lemieux was a commercial success, and Cotto v Canelo, then the winners square off boxing has a mega star.

If they both do poorly, and the winner doesn't fight GGG, with the inflated purses of PBC and their slapdash matchmaking like Stevenson v Karpency, Wilder v Molina, having Razor Ruddock and Vivian Harris on shows, and a reluctant to fight anyone outside the stable it would be bad for boxing, as it's clear from TV ratings that interest is dwindling in that model.

 

What about Kovalev vs Mohammedi(idgaf if that was a mando), Brook vs Gavin, GGG vs Monroe, etc?

 

What Al Haymon is doing wouldn't be bad if he let other promoters match their fighters along with his also. That would be great. But he chooses to isolate himself. Haymon might be a smart Harvard educated businessman but his recluse , hermit way of life makes me think the guy is shady and doing something that is borderline illegal. It makes me laugh when all these guys furiously defend Al Haymon when they don't even know the man.lol

 

like you furiously defend ggg and kovalev