Roach Rips Floyds Performance

:rofl So what about the PPV sells then?

 

I have to say, im really impressed with roaches choice of Shawn Porter for sparring. The guy can do a little of everything.

 

So let me get this straight, Roach claims that because 80 percent of the seats where filled by Mexican's (I'll include Mexican Americans as well as most of the people probably live in America), that means that Mayweather isn't a draw? What about the PPV numbers? Do they also show that 80 percent of the buys where by Mexicans? I seriously doubt it. Lets subtract Mayweather from the card and replace him with another good Mexican fighter. You think that card would do a million buys?

Not a chance.

If Mayweather had returned against a top American fighter, I'd bet that there would have been close to the same number of buys. Possibly more bars would have been forced to carry the fight.

Pacman is a great fighter and a very good draw. I don't think that he's that much of a better draw then Mayweather. It comes down to opponent selection. Pacman isn't gonna draw **** without fighting a big name just like Mayweather wouldn't.

 

What about the fact that Oscar fought FMJ at 154 and fought pac at 145?

 

Void is void.

 

I have said before floyd should get the bigger purse if it's not 50/50...but let me play devil's advocate...arguments for both sides when you go in-depth.....



A.) De La Hoya was coming off a sensational KO victory of mayorga, then fighting floyd......when oscar fought pacquiao he was coming off a UD over a solid b fighter in stevie forbes.....the star quality of de la hoya had been dwendling since his floyd fight....thus, causing lower viewership with manny pacquiao vs oscar de la hoya then floyd-de la hoya....which manny had the more impressive victory over........advantage pacquiao in negotiations there....advantage floyd in viewership

B.) Hatton, you can argue this one either way for pacquiao or myaweather.....mayweather fought a better version of hatton, a undefeated hatton, and beat him....in a larger viewing audience then pacquio....advantage floyd.........however, pacquiao dominated a 1 loss hatton coming off a sensational tko over the number 1 ranked jr. welter contender at the time, malignaggi.....plus, pacquiao fought the lineal 140 fighter in hatton, instead of a unproven WW version of hatton that mayweather fought.......advantage pacquiao.....

like i said, both sides have very good reasons on their side at the negotiating table.....mayweather fans will argue one way, pacquiao fans will argue another....

C.) Marquez, pacquiao-marquez did the highest ppv below WW in history, when anything below WW is really not the "marquee" of the boxing world....and manny fought a more natural closer to prime marquez then floyd did......advantage pacquiao........now floyd will argue he dominated and got a clear cut victory over marquez and had more viewers......advantage mayweather.....

Many ways you could spin the split purse....as i said I think it should be 50-50 or 52-48 Mayweather....55-45 is pushing it....and niether man should take 40%.....

 

I honestly believe that the large majority of viewers (PPV) pay just in the hope to see him get beaten. I'm sure that FMJdoesn't give a **** what the reasons for paying to watch him are, so long as the cash keeps coming in.

The thing is, what will happen if/when he does lose? Will his PPV sales plummet?

 

Mexican fans.

 

Void wants to fight a flyweight next.

 

The only way both fighters will sign is at least a 50% split. It can be worked. Pac doesn't deserve more, neither does Floyd. The both need each other.

 

I think it's actually better that they don't fight at all. Floyd's better off fighting someone in his own weight class. If he cleans up welterweight he would have finally had some ammunition to silence his critics. Imagine going through Mosley, Cotto, Cintron, Berto maybe even Margarito. Paul Williams too.

These fights are big, I'd imagine HBO would be willing to guarantee him $15M for each. He'd face the specter of getting hurt big-time against one of these cats though. Hurt as in Tyson-clobbering-Spinks-hurt.