Was Mayweather a PPV flop until he fought DLH?

You gotta pay attention when replying. Never once did I insinuate Marquez was the A side.

And FLoyd also did pretty crappy numbers in his pre DLH fight yet he gets so much credit for the PPV sales in DLH/PBF:think

 

350 is not crappy.


300k+ is rather solid for PPVs.

You've grown accustomed to 700k+ which is ****ing awesome for boxing PPV.

My bad, when I saw you said first 3 big PPVs I assumed the 3 that were the biggest.


And still, I don't see Hatton was the A side of the event when he never fought on PPV before that, AND his highest PPV in the UK was like a 4th of the total sales in the UK he did with mayweather.

 

mayweather was not a PPV big draw unless he was in with the right opponent... in the present he's just taking advantage of a bad era on the boxing scene.. there arent many big names out there so he bacame the biggest name in boxing the last two yrs o so... but still if he's not fighting a big name he's not getting huge numbers

:hat

 

Having fans coming to watch you does not always translate in PPV buys.atsch

 

Certainly not a flop but no more successful than Barrera, Morales, and Pacquiao (pre DLH) when they got together and rumbled. He did about 300-400k buys a fight which is solid. Especially for a smaller fighter who wasn't known for being very exciting.

 

How was the Baldomir fight a flop? Mayweather did 300K+ buys against a guy with no name recognition on a PPV that was scheduled against a HW "title" fight (Liakhovich/Briggs) that was aired during a Showtime free preview weekend. That was a respectable buy rate for that mismatch.

Keep in mind that Mayweather didn't get any real mainstream exposure until the De La Hoya fight. Taken in perspective, the totals for his first three PPVs are't bad at all.

 

Yes !!

With out Oscar most boxers would have flopped PPV wise unless your name was Mike Tyson or Tito Trinidad ..