I sincerely doubt this happens. No way Bob wants to lose money. As much as he hates Floyd, he knows it would be a disaster.
Mayweather will move his date. If theyre hurting to break even on his fights they wont be going head to head against the Son of a Legend
It's not this would be the first time he's gone head-to-head with golden boy on the same date. Remember when he went up against Canelo's card with Chavez Jr?
The Canelo card wasn't PPV. Top Tank clearly had the bigger money maker when that happened. This time, Top a rank would have a card that would be clearly number 2 in terms of money making potential. A Chavez/Froch card has the potential to do good numbers. Why would Arum purposely cut into those profits?
Arum would do it. Something else people are forgetting, is that even if Arum did not make as much as he could THIS time - severely damaging Floyd and proving he is willing to take a hit himself would effectively boot Floyd off the spot in the future as well. That day is a big Mexican day for boxing, and anyone who thinks Arum would be wise to keep handing it off uncontested is being silly.
If you're going to challenge a Mayweather card, you need a strong seller yourself. Chavez/Froch is not big enough for that in my opinion. If he tried to put that fight on PPPv, it wouldn't get the main PPV slot. Getting that secondary PPV slot, would decimate the numbers. There's a reason you don't see competing PPVs.
PPV buying public is not a homogenous market by any stretch. Chavez/Froch would decimate Floyd/anyonenotMexican in many regions and demographics. Floyd would in others, but his total numbers would be way down. I think what we have seen in the past by not competing (with the exception of Manny PPVs, because in that case his purse guarantee is simply to big to take a hit on the gross) on big PPV dates was something of a mutual courtesy. Perhaps even unspoken, because both sides had too much to lose if PPV dates got competitive. After Haymon scuttled Kovalev/Stevenson for HBO, and then Chavez/GGG for HBO and Arum.. I think the gloves are off. Arum and HBO now both willing to play hardball. Expect more PPV dates in the future to become competitive, and expect GGG or Kovalev or Chavez non-PPV fight next May on Floyds date as well.
You're dead wrong if you actually believe this. Chavez fought Martinez on Mexican Independence Day. Martinez is a bigger name in the States than Froch. That fight did about has as many buys as the lowest PPV headlined by Mayweather since 2007. I can pretty much guarantee you that Arum will not be putting Chavez on PPV the same day as a Mayweather fight. We make a wager on that if you would like.
Why not just put one on Friday and one on Saturday? Is it an ego thing, in that the card on Friday would be less prestigious. I don't understand why Floyd gets the Sept. 13 date. Wouldn't Canelo be a better draw and Mayweather could fight in October or November. I don't see many opponents out there who could garner big numbers for Mayweather. I'm not sure I'm that interested in a Maidana rematch.
Floyd gets that date because he's the biggest draw. Just think about this, you have people saying his last fight bombed. However, it did over $15M at the gate and their hasn't been another non Floyd PPV that did higher numbers in the last couple of years. If Canelo thinks he's a bigger draw than Mayweather, then he can petition GBP to get him that date. His request will of course be turned down.
Not sure how it works in USA but here in the UK I doubt local authorities will allow 2 such big events to take place in the same area at the same time as it would be too difficult to police it and because of transportation issues.