Mayweather - JMM: Only 3,000 tickets sold? LOL!

And just to add some more credence, JMM/Juan Diaz sold out in Houston. We're talking a BIG crowd which could be attributed to a lot of things. Point is JMM is coming off a big sell out in an outstanding fight, Floyd is making his comeback which almost always generates a huge crowd and this fight is in the pits.

 

Its good that this fight doesn't sell. Let Mayweather fight a second tier welterweight as a tune up for Cotto or Mosley or Money Pacquiao.

Let Marquez fight a lighweight or try his hand at junior welter to gear up for the $$$ fighter Money Pacquiao.

 

#1 JMM although highly respected amongst boxing fans is not that big of a draw.
#2 Floyd is highly favored here going against someone most people see him beating..all the people who want to see him lose because of his stupid persona dont see JMM beating him so that excludes people paying in hopes he loses.

No Gatti,Hoya,or Hatton PPV sales to piggy back off of this time.Floyd fans need to accept the fact that he is NOT the cash cow in Boxing.

 

Certainly not....but then again as we're finding out neither is Floyd. Normally when two decent draws collide with strong fan bases behind them, You figure that the fight would sell. It's amazing that this fight is literally dying a month away from the oriignal fight date. I mean JMM was in HBO's FOTY in front of 20K fans. Where the hell did all those people go?

 

I don't care if Floyd, Tyson, Sugar or Dlh were cash cows. Many have been listening to Floyd himself talk about himself, and many fans are just waiting for Floyd to fall on his face which is cool. When Pac beat Hatton, people were satisifed Floyd Sr. was shut up...in some sort of way as he was saying he was the best trainer lol. Since when did we care what a trainer thought anyway??? PPV's are something I, nor many fans care about since we aren't getting any money anyway if you want to be honest. I just want to see the fight, and I don't care if 10 people attend the fight.

 

To be honest, the promotion of this fight was just starting so we can't assume that it wasn't selling.

 

Main reason why Floyd had to back out of the fight. He is going to face this guy next. Rumor has it that Floyd is seeing a Psychologist just to get his focus back. Must be one tough white dude.

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We can speculate. Assumptions might be hard to do but at this point the smoke is too thick for there not to be fire.

The fight could've done tremendous on PPV and we all could've been wrong...but there's something seriously off right now about this whole deal.

They pushed it to September and are aiming for the week of the Mexican Independence Holiday...that tells me they're hoping for a gimmick to push the fight. Either that or they realized that going a week AFTER the UFC would kill their buy rate and August is too cluttered with MMA to try and push the fight during that.

But again we're speculating.

 

:goodI still think that this fight does what Pac-Marquez does in numbers anyway which were good numbers imo. People read too much into Floyd's talk. Fighters have been piggy backing off of each other since boxng began.

 

It all comes down to opinion. In my view the Mayweather/Hatton 24/7 had a lot to do with it being as successful as it was. Then again Hatton/Pacquiao's wasn't that exciting yet it nearly did the same in PPV numbers. I'm just assuming Pacquiao is a megastar now and a serious PPV attraction and the DLH fight has a lot to do with it.

 

I would have to imagine that those numbers would probably disappoint HBO and GBP. That said at this point who knows? I've never seen a PPV as finagled as this one is. Now the fight is in a rough spot, either GBP and HBO kill themselves promoting it and hope for the best or worse the fanbase that WAS there for this fight is completely killed off due to the wait and things start all over again.

Makes the wanna be promoter in me want to committ suicide.

 

I don't necessarily think you're wrong there. The thing is fans bought tickets like mad before the 24/7 series even started. 24/7 is more to generate PPV buys than to push for a live gate which makes me wonder where all the mexican fans who packed in to see him and Juan Diaz rumble went.

It also makes me wonder where all of Floyd's fans have gone off to to be honest.

One thing we're also not taking into account is how badly the Casino businesses are doing these days. Maybe that even has something to dow ith it.

 

Floyd and JMM just went to Britain in an attempt to conjure up some of those Ricky fans and now he trying to conjure up Obama fans, patriots, the military, Don King and gangsta wanna-be's

 

Ha ha Floyd could have fought Oscar a second time for a fortune and now he and Marquez combined can't draw flies. At least Floyd screwed Marquez at the negotiating table, lets see....whats 83% of nothing? :think

 

This is where you're wrong again. This has got nothing to do about Pac fans. The lambasting comes from FMJ's self proclamation of being the cash cow and the Mayweather fans gullibly riding on it, if that ain't the limit. He ain't proving so with the early receipts on the gate!!!
Be more open minded sometimes and not that weird villain you like to portray yourself...