[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]500,000+ buys for Jones-Trinidad![/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Thursday, January 24 2008[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]There were some scribes who said legendary promoter Don King had lost his touch prior to last Saturday's PPV clash between aging warriors Roy Jones Jr. and Felix Trinidad at Madison Square Garden in New York City. In fact, King was ranked only #8 in a recent list of boxing's biggest powerbrokers, however, DKP confirmed on Thursday that Jones-Trinidad attracted more than 500,000 buys, making it one of the biggest boxing pay-per-view successes in recent years. Reached on the phone in Mexico City, where he was officially announcing Peter vs Maskaev for March 8th in Cancun, King told Fightnews.com, "Roy Jones Jr. proved he is still one of the biggest pay-per-view stars in the sport, and I can't say enough about the show Tito and Roy put on for the fans. I urge everyone who didn't see the fight to watch the HBO replay on Saturday night. Roy Jones Jr. is back and look for him to be back in the ring soon. He's on a mission to prove to everyone how great he still is." Official attendance at the Garden for the fight was 12,162.[/FONT]
Everybody knows that they have a lot of fans, I'm not surprised. I'm from PR and when the fight ended, on my way home there was a lot of traffic on the streets, a lot of silence too (because of Tito losing), even though a lot of people didn't saw the fight for fear of Tito getting badly hurt. In PR the love for Tito is unbelievable. Guess we love boxing too much
