Dan Rafael: Mayweather/Khan won't break 1 million buys

Which is why I said AFTER Mayweather and Pacquiao... atsch

He is the 3rd biggest star in the US.

 

Floyd's last fight - allegedly - so people will want to see the legend bow out.

 

Besides Floyd/Pac the only other active boxers who have headlined a US PPV as the A-side are...Canelo, JMM and Cotto.

Canelo has sold a total of 650,000 PPV buys in 2 fights as the A-side at 24 years old. Floyd and Pac had not even fought on PPV at the same age.

 

oh ok. I agree then

 

:good

 

I think it will do 1m+ in the US and it will do just under a million in the UK.

 

Hardly a bold statement by Dan Rafael, most people know Khan is nowhere near as popular as he says he is.

Also Mayweather Vs Khan is not going to be very competitive, he was being walked down and hurt by Chris Algieri so how do you sell this as a fight?

I will turn on Mayweather if he makes this fight and I've said before I can say 100% I will not buy this fight and I bought Haye Vs Harrison that's how much this will p*** me off.

All that said, Mayweather gets a huge bonus for completing his showtime deal so I do not think he will be that bothered about the PPV numbers anyway.

 

Breaks 1 mill in the UK alone, I gurantee it

 

Its all irrelevent. Floyd will still get his money. I think 800,000 is too high. I think itll do less than that. People cared about floyd because they saw manny at the end of the road. Been there done that. Nobody cares anymore especially casuals. Floyd made a fool of himself in the pac fight by doing his run,hug,pitty pat nonsense and people are ****ed they paid 100 bucks for it. Hes not going to see another dime especially against Khan who people couldnt care less about. The only thing that could draw HUGE interest is GGG. I dont want to hear hes to big for floyd because thats bs! GGG is the same size as Canelo and floyd didnt weigh in on fight night vs pac because he was close to 160.

Floyd vs GGG is a great fight because it takes the best "defensive" fighter and puts him in with a guy who has 20 straight kos and many in the sport want no part of. Now this may sound crazy because i hate floyd but if that fight happened id absolutely love to see floyd school GGG like he did to canelo so all these lame fighters whove been ducking GGG get exposed for the cowards they are. sike! i hope he knocks floyd out. Id lmao

 

Sadly, you're as delusional as Khan is.

When Froch knocked out George Groves in Wembley Stadium in front of 80,000 fans, Khan was laughably booed.

He ain't selling shiat in the UK.

 

Mayweather - Hatton didn't produce 1m and Hatton was the #1 British fighter who was undefeated and many people actually thought he could beat Mayweather.

Khan is not undefeated, widely seen as the second best British after Brook, had been knocked out more than once in lighter divisions, has a worse KO ratio than Hatton and almost no one thinks he can outpoint Mayweather in Vegas. Hatton fight was almost a decade ago and PPV numbers naturally increase over time but I'd be surprised if it surpassed 1m, especially if it's ridiculously expensive as always with a Mayweather fight.

 

Also, didn't Eddie Hearn say that they had an exclusive deal with Sky.

Khan will probably be on Boxnation or BBC 5 Live. Anyone know more?

 

After the Pac fight it was obvious Floyds PPV buys would significantly fall..