I think Floyd-Shane will push 2 million buys

First, its lose not loose. Second, learn what a draw means.

Being a draw doesn't mean you have to have Ricky Hatton fans singing Christmas songs about you, it means you have people tune in because of you. Mayweather does that, whether its Jacory or LukeO tuning in for completely different reasons.

 

no way shane-may gets more buys than oscar-may!! no f***** way

 

If this fight sells around 2mil we can all kiss any potential Floyd beatdown of emmanuel to happen goodbye.

 

Well they better hope it does great cause if Rampage Jackson and Rashad Evans somehow was to pull out a better buyrate than Mayweather-Mosley then that would almost spell instant disaster for the sport, plus you will never hear the last of Dana White's mouth.

 

I agree with the reasoning.

 

Have Floyd a threatening fighter with NO name recognition getting no real help from a mediocre promoter and still pull over 700,000 buys. That won't happen. Pacquiao is THE draw. With the non-boxing fan his name is now bigger than Floyd's. Never seen Floyd on the cover of a straight news magazine, but I saw Pacquiao on the cover of TIME.

 

Please. Get over your hatred.


If this Floyd-Shane fight does bigger numbers than Pac-Cotto, then we can truly say Floyd is a bigger draw than Pac. Since we can just about all agree that Cotto is a bigger draw than Shane. You follow me, son?

 

Agreed.

 

Floyd is by far the bigger draw. He averages nearly 225k more buys per PPV than Pacquiao, and isn't far behind on buys despite being only on 6 PPVs compared to Pac's 10 or 11.

 

I'd say 1.5-1.7

Definitely not over 2.

Oscar was a massive star still when he fought floyd.

 

DLH was a pretty massive star when he fought Mosley the second time.

I think Mosley-Mayweather easily has a good chance to go over 2 million.

Even my friends that are purely MMA fans plan to buy this fight.

 

I initially thought that this fight would do in the 1.5 to 2 million range but considering the massive buzz this fight is getting online and TV worldwide I'm thinking in the 2 to 2.5 million range. I'm also not going to bet against Schaefer especially after the FMJ/JMM numbers when very little people thought that fight would do that number.

If this fight does anywhere near the 3 million that Schaefer thinks it can then a PAC fight is very unlikely because PAC would have to take 35-40% of the split and drug testing to make it happen and I don't think he would.

 

1.5 - 1.6m