Floyd vs. JMM mismatch fight promotional blunders

You must have scored Roy Jones vs Calzaghe for Jones......Jones scored with the only knockdown of the fight in the very first round.

 

Mayweathers fight with Marquez has to outdraw Pac's fight with Hatton for Mayweather's point to be valid......imo JMM-Mayweather will outdraw Pac-Hatton, but we'll find out in september.

 

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One thing you have to admit. The hype surrounding Pac at the moment is OFF THE SCALE. To the point where people are getting really pissed off with all the talk.

Pac haters are everywhere.
I've never seen this much talk about 1 boxer on the forums, it's huge.

The fact that someone like Pac, honourable, humble and a true warrior who comes to fight actually has HATERS is truly proof that he is the BIGGEST FIGHTER in the world.

People who don't know anything about boxing are supporting Pac, and that sums it up. It's the Joe Average on the street who pushes the PPV numbers off the scale. And Pac has well and truly gone in the mainstream media.

The problem Floyd has is that his fighting style is great for boxing purist's and people who appreiciate amazing skills but the people are the street have no understanding of boxing from a technical viewpoint. To them a Floyd fight is just a BORING FIGHT.

If you look at Pac's fights they are EXACTLY the kind of fights the average man on the street loves. AND THAT'S WHY PAC WILL GET BETTER PPV'S IN HIS NEXT FIGHT.

 

I picked Pac too, so what?, it means nothing. Still the majority were all pro DLH based on size and only size like you are regarding this fight.

 

There's always been massive hype a round Pac. It's hard to hate him.

I Love him.

Floyd is talked about in this forum still more than pac. You only notice the pac threads.

Good for Pac. He's still has yet to have a big fight without a great B side. Same with Floyd. But Floyd does better than Pac.

Besides the Baldomir fight what fight has been boring?

Go ahead, Ill wait for you to say DLH, then Ill just come back and say you knew he was a boxer in his 5th weight class. He put on a good fight, not toe to toe the whole night but he stood in the pocket a bit.

So what else was boring since he has gone PPV?

Sure they are, he beat the **** out of DLH and still couldn't break the numbers of Floyd against Hatton.

And everyone picked Floyd to easily win remember? (with the exception of some people) And the Pac-Hatton had more buzz of they weren't sure.

Why would a fight that you expect someone to win sell out more than a fight that you dont know who the winner will be?

Fact is. Floyd and Pac aren't on DLHs level. But Floyd is higher than Pac when it comes to sales.

Neither will do to great without a strong B side, but Floyd will pull slightly better.

But combine both of them. You have history in the making,

 

Totally agree with this

 

The UK presser was because it was to be shown on PPV in the UK, which I would imagine isn't the case anywhere else outside the US

 

You're right, although I wouldn't throw out huge props to RJJ just yet when he went up to HW. He fought John "The Walking Dead" Ruiz for Christ's sake.

 

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Yep.

The only thing different about this fight is that Floyd is combining the two elements for success he has kept separate in some other matches:

1. Fight someone smaller (Hatton)
2. Fight someone older (ODLH, Baldomir, Gatti, Mitchell)

In JMM, Floyd gets to combine both attributes and can pretend it's a mega fight.

I respect JMM, but this is a mismatch.

Scar brought up ODLH-Pac, but that was very different. In that fight, the smaller guy was the younger and faster man. In this fight, the bigger guy is both younger and faster. Totally different scenario.

Not only would I not pay to watch this fight, I might not watch it if someone paid ME to view it.

I hope it's a good fight, but my fear is that it will be one of those bouts that ends up giving boxing a black eye because it's so lopsided.

 

Sure that's a fair point, however it can be said the John "The Walking Dead" Ruiz was a legitimate top 10 HW who wasn't an easy out for most HW's sans Tua. He wasn't a world beater and HOF great but he also wasn't a top 100 tomato can like most smaller guys use to test the waters in the HW division (read: David Haye).

The point being you take the top 10 of LT. HW division when Roy moved up and not many could have done what he did. Hell you can take probably the top 10 of the LT HW division since then and say the same thing. We simply can't use exceptional athletes and use that as the defacto standard for moving through divisions.