Who can Mayweather fight to generate over 1 million buys

And just how much influence do they have to exert? According to Schaefer (I knoooow), Floyd isn't even allowed in the room when he's talked a Canelo Alvarez fight over with Haymon.

 

Only a handful of opponents

A-most guys dont generate the interest as a danger or threat

B- most guys arent a draw

C- as the Pacquiao fight looks impossible and seemingly uninteresting after Manny losing back to back the interest for casuals in Mayweather has dimmed

most average people wont dish out money to see Floyd or Manny fight lesser opponents without the promise or possibility of the superfight

 

I don't know, not privy to the contracts. Hopefully they have some recourse, though I wouldn't be surprised if not. Still he has some moral obligation to them, for paying him that record guarantee over 6 fights. You wouldn't wanna poison the relationship with your employer so early, just because you can. Plus they could really be facing huge losses, and not be in the position to fulfill their end of the bargain.

 

I'd like to think it isn't already at that drastic of a point. That would be catastrophic and terrible for the sport overall. People rooting for Floyd's fights to fail in a massive way are just as much in the wrong if it means putting serious holes in SHO's general boxing budget because everyone will suffer. Sort of awkward situation here though where GBP/SHO feel like one entity. I could see hoping for underperformance in hopes that it nudges him into more compelling fights (and there aren't many anyway), but Floyd's already won. He's the last one to be hurt from it now. He slid right off the fight to fight basis model just in the nick of time with Pacquiao going down.

 

I really want to see the Martinez fight but I don't know if it would get 1 Million.

 

Out of actual fights that are do-able in regard to promotional companies:

Only Canelo...

It took me a minute to think of more, I thought of the Matthysse-Garcia winner. The winner would create a lot of hype, especially Matthysse with his cult following. The media and anti-Floyd fans would hype up the winner as Floyd's next big challenger, but then I thought about it and I just don't see how the winner is any better than the versions of Robert Guerrero, Victor Ortiz, Miguel Cotto or Shane Mosley that Mayweather fought in the respective years.

The Martinez fight lost luster, because any one who saw Martinez vs Murray knows, or should know but ignore, that Murray should have gotten the decision. Add in the KD that was not counted by the ref to the sorecards, and still Murray would have lost. That is what you call getting screwed. When you get screwed out of a KD, and get a KD scored, land more punches, but still even with fair referring, you'd get unfair scorecards. Martinez fans saying it was Murray's fault and that he should have done more. More? More what? Land more power punches? 128 to 87? Land more total punches? 160 to 134? Land the more effective and cleaner punches? 29% to 23%? Knocked Martinez down a couple times? Lol done more what? How are boxing fans trying to justify that Martinez won. I didn't even know who the hell Murray was and I was rooting for Martinez. But come on, why try to sweep this under the rug and act like Martinez did not get a hometown decision?

 

Once Matthysse takes care of Garcia, he needs another fight in between September and May to further bolster his stock and get more exposure, generate hype. I just won't believe you can't sell a fighter who wins his fights by KO 95% of the the time, and is going in actively looking to do so. You Can, and need to put the resources behind him.

 

Yeah it's too bad GBP and SHO are so intertwined. A loss for SHO is felt by us all. GBP doesn't matter, their fighters can always find a home with a different promoter. Not that we've gotten to that point, but seems logical unless a Canelo fight is signed to reverse the momentum.

 

I think mayweather-broner would do over a million buys. Obv canelo, pacquaio, and prob winner of garcia-mattyse.

 

pacquiao - 3 million ppv buys

 

Thats a wack fight. I want Mayweather/Canelo or hell, give me Canelo/Broner.