Hatton has become the biggest ticket seller in the world

That is because we have 50 Hattons and Cazlaghes. You cats only have two. If we only had two good fighters then they two would sell a sh*tload of tickets.:good

 

No what it is, WE HAVE MANY MORE TOP FIGHTERS, and many more top fights. couple that with the vastness of the States and you get 17,000 people to watch Pavlik vs Taylor. Oddly enough Hatton isnt amoung the higher paid fighters...Why is that???

 

No, you don't.

You only have one great fighter.

A lot of old fighters.

And some young hype trains ready to be derailed a la Lacy.

 

No you don't "Theres only one Ricky Hatton, theres only one...

 

You also have 5 times the population.

We have 4 top fighters, do you have 16?

Not the best way to put my point across im sure, but you probably get what im trying to say.

 

your hate for european fighters is starting to deteriate the quality of your posts and clearly you are losing all objectivity.

hatton earned according to the telegraph with combined american and british ppv money $50 million in 2007.

2007 guess list

holyfield $200k guess for ibragmanov paid by european promoter
chambers $200k guess-paid by european promoter
cunningham $250 k v huck-paid by european promoter
dawson v ruiz/mendoza $150k guess-paid by american promoter
hopkins v wright-$3 million hopkins-usa promoter
jones v prince ?
biggest american 168 purse was manfredo $500k
160-biggest purse was taylor $3 million rematch with pavlik
154-odlh v mayweather biggest grossing fight
147-mayweather v hatton- i think hatton earned the most from this fight as he had exclusive uk ppv rights and that got a reported 1.2 to 1.4 million ppv buys even though it took place at 4.30 am uk time.
140-biggest fight hatton v castillo dont know the money
135-diaz biggest earner ? few million ?
130-paq biggest earner
127 -and below not real big money in comparsion.

and yet you say hatton is not one of the worlds higher paid fighters.

you may not like hatton, but you used to be more objective when money in boxing was concerned , it used to be your forte when posting .

DLH / MAYWEATHER /hatton.
AND IF HATTON HAD FACED dlh IT WOULD BE HATTON SECOND AND FLYOD THIRD.

no other american fighter earned more than calzaghe besides dlh and mayweather.

 

Bigger than Lennox Lewis-Mike Tyson in 2002 (750,000 buys), greater than Frank Bruno-Mike Tyson in 1996 (660,000 buys), Hatton has outstripped the heavyweights. They are calling it 'The Hatton Phenomenon'. The signs were there even as the Mancunian lay prostrate on the canvas at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in round 10 being counted out by referee Joe Cortez. Hatton's followers cared not, still cheering his name, still chanting of a 'Hatton Wonderland'.

Ricky Hatton's fight the biggest box office draw
Blow: Floyd Mayweather beat Ricky Hatton in round ten

The reality is that the Hatton 'Wonderland' is paved with gold. When the counting is done, the 29-year-old former carpet fitter from Hyde is set to earn between 15 and 20 million pounds from his prize fight with Mayweather, the greatest amount ever earned by an individual British sportsman for a single sporting event for the first loss of his 44-fight, ten-year career as a professional. Hatton's pay day is greater than linear world heavyweight champion Lewis earned for any of his US fight nights. This year Hatton will have earned almost 25 million pounds, and with his management team this week projecting five more fights in the next 24 months, Hatton could hang up his gloves in two years' time with over 45 million pounds in career earnings. No fight in his future, however, is likely to match the earning power of this contest, which captured the public imagination for a number of diverse reasons.

Although official Sky figures will not be known until late January 2008, the indications are that ppv buys on Sky Box Office are well over the million mark, and could climb as high as 1.4 million, creating revenue of 20 million pounds upwards. What is most surprising is that it will eclipse the Lewis-Tyson UK ppv buy record of 750,000 in 2002 by some margin. But the event also broke other records. Bookmakers reported 10 million pounds of betting on Hatton, more than had been staked on Lewis Hamilton to win the F1 drivers' championship, or on any other single British sportsman in history, a fact which distorted the odds for the contest against the world's No 1 pound for pound fighter, but which indicated huge public interest.

Since 1996, Sky Box Office has screened 40 pay-per-view boxing nights. The first domestic pay-per-view on Sky was in March 1996, the night Frank Bruno fought Mike Tyson in Las Vegas. Since then, diverse factors, involving the characters, the experience, the billing, the time of the fight, and indeed the mood of the nation, have affected ppv sales.

"It is about the experience, the occasion, a one-off. It's not so much about the boxing," said Barry Hearn, the sports promoter, now successfully taking Premier League darts around the country. "It is very much about the media, the momentum and the characters involved, and that's what you had here. It could be mud-wrestling, as long as the media are behind it. I haven't seen anything like promotion for this fight in the media for a very long time." It was billed as good versus evil, mouth versus manners, England versus the USA, with, significantly, Oscar De La Hoya, the promoter of this fight, consistently talking up Hatton's chances against Mayweather.
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For the first time in ppv boxing history, this event will return more UK pay-per-view buys than in the USA. There were 850,000 domestic pay-per-view buys Stateside, representing $47 million US dollars in television revenue.

As records go, those buys represented the biggest pay-per-view fight in US history in a fight not involving Oscar De La Hoya, or the heavyweights Mike Tyson or Evander Holyfield. Earlier this year, on May 5, Mayweather's light-middleweight contest with De La Hoya broke numerous records. That including 2.4 million PPV buys, and with gate receipts a total income from the fight of 165 million US dollars, an all-time record. Hatton/Mayweather should generate, in both the UK and the USA, almost 100 million US dollars. In 2007 alone, HBO's eight boxing events sold 4.8 million units and generated $255 million US dollars. It broke the previous year record, set in 1999, of 4 million buys and $200 million US dollars.

Hatton has a long way to go before breaking the two ppv kings - De la Hoya and Mike Tyson. De La Hoya's events have generated 626.4 million US dollars in revenue, while Mike Tyson sits in second place with 545 million US dollars. In British terms, Hatton remains a phenomenon.

telegraph article

 

actually its more like hatton, calzaghe, khan.

 

Yes, I'm detecting lots of jealousy from the Yanks on this one. Wonder how many Malignaggi followers are going to be in Manchester? Shall we give him the old "What's it like to see a crowd?"

 

That'll be Derby who get bigger crowds than the best three teams in Denmark put together!

 

Troof. But if it works for him, why change?

 

IBF
heavyweights
5 of top 10 from the US

NONE from the UK

cruisers
4 of the top 10 From US
1 title holder

None from the UK
1 title holder

lt heavyweight
6 of top 10 from US
1 title holder

None from the UK
1 title holder

supermiddle
2 of top 10 from US

None from uk
1 title holder

middle
3 of top 10 from US
1 title holder

1 from UK
None title holders

superwelters
5 of top 10 from US
1 title holder

0 from UK
0 titler holders

Welters
6 of top 10 from US
2 title holders

1 of top 10 from UK
0 title holders

I was going to do the other three but after that one its really pointless.

Boxing in the UK isnt close to that of the US. Having four fighters holding belts at one time doesnt make you a boxing superpower.

Floyd proved that Hatton wasnt really a truely elite fighter.

I wouldnt be shocked to see Hopkins do the same to Calzaghe.

Haye is a knockout waiting to happen as a heavyweight....

Not really sure who you see as the fourth GREAT fighter from the UK....Woods maybe??? Witter??? :huh OH wait Kahn right.

My point is simple 60 million people in the UK and a hand full of fighters to back...You are either a fan of Hatton Calzaghe, Witter, Woods, Froch, Haye or kahn and really thats it.

That is a shade under 10 million per fighter


US 300 million to be a fan of Mayweather, Hopkins, Jones, Mosley, Delahoya, Judah, Tarver, Dawson, Lacy, Taylor, Pavlik, Wright, Forrest, Williams, cintron, Juan Diaz, Campbell, Rahman, Chambers, Brock, Arroela. Flores, Banks, Bell, cunningham, Byrd, Powell, Spinks, Simms, Phillips, Berto, Collazo. those are all either title holders or ranked in the top 10.

More to choice from farther to travel to see them fight, higher ticket prices all equal to fewer butts in sets. Not to mention that the Boxing fans are a very small percentage in the States anymore. Boxing barely in the top 10 most popular sports here. Well behind things that arent even sports like Nascar, and Bowling. We have more bowling on TV now then Boxing.

 

Hatton is good for boxing but i think hes very overhyped by his fans.

 

:yep

It was the REF, and that damn corner post. Rickey would win a rematch in England.:good

 

so we can feel special:hey