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The upcoming fights between Manny Pacquiao and Joshua Clottey, and Floyd Mayweather and Shane Mosley will probably be two of the biggest pay per view sellers this year. But what kind of numbers each will actually sell is a matter of some dispute.
Unlike most fights which more or less sell on the appeal of the two fighters taking part, there are several other confounding factors in how each one of these events will do.
Perhaps just as importantly, the figures that each achieve might well be a deciding factor in whether the two winners ever face off. Floyd Mayweather having said that if he sells more than Pacquiao, he will demand the bigger share of the purse, which in turn will likely put the bout out of commission.
Pacquiao vs. Clottey
+ Appearances from Pacquiao on the likes of Jimmy Kimmel live as well as a host of celebrity fans has helped to raise his profile and recognition in the United States.
+ The fight being held in Dallas at the Cowboys stadium is attracting a lot more mainstream attention than most big fights would get. This should help bolster the pay per view sales as well as ensuring that the live gate is a big one.
- Compared to the rest of the fighters in question, Joshua Clottey is fairly obscure outside of boxing circles, and wont help to shift many tickets in his own right. Manny Pacquiao is probably the biggest star in the sport today, but selling a fight on the back of one name only is difficult and rarely achieved.
- Although Clottey might well represent the biggest test Pacquiao has faced recently, many think his style simply does not give him much of chance of winning. Certainly some casual fans might not buy if they think the fight will turn out to be one sided.
Mayweather vs. Mosley
+ Floyd and Shane fighting has been ten years in the making, with each calling out the other multiple times down the years. For fans of both this is a can't miss fight, not to mention a lot of people are eager to see if Mayweather will finally lose his unbeaten record.
+ Although Mayweather is the bigger draw of the pair, Mosley is a minor draw in his own right and is certainly a lot more well known than the relative empty suit that Clottey represents in terms of drawing power.
- After some of Mayweather's comments and Golden Boy's recent dealings with Manny Pacquiao, some are calling for boycotts of GBP and Mayweather. Aside from this, his often offensive gestures and speeches, such as his remarks regarding Martin Luther King, or his steroid saga with Manny Pacquiao have probably lost him some fans.
- With Mosley at the age of 38, there are some out there who will think that Mayweather is taking another soft option with Mosley as an opponent. This isn't the case by any means, but to the casual observer not well versed in the rankings of records of the fighters, Floyd Mayweather taking on a much older opponent after first beating a much lighter fighter might look like more of the same.
Pittsburgh's predictions:
George Havers, Pittsburgh PA: "Clottey is pretty obscure, and Pacquiao should beat him easily. Mosley Mayweather might be a lot closer, so I think that will sell about 1.5 million to Pacquiao and Clottey's 900k"
Bill Goldman, Pittsburgh PA: "Pacquiao 1,25 million and Mayweather 1.4 million. After which Mayweather will demand extra money to fight Pacquuao and the fight will never happen"
Robert Shankley, Pittsburgh PA: "Pacquiao should sell more than Mayweather, he will be more exciting and he's the better fighter. Both are interesting though because the fight we really all want to see will probably depend on how many each one of these sells"
Bernie Walker, Pittsburgh PA: "Mayweather will outsell Pacquiao by a mile. Richie Shaefer was obviously talking nonsense as usual with his biggest ever prediction, but Clottey has zero appeal to most American fans. Mosley at least is fairly well known and holds a title, and its been a while since there has been a really big fight for people to get excited about. Pacquiao also can't hype a fight like Mayweather can. Mayweather 1.8 million. Pacquiao 1.2 million.
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Comments
ALL BOXING FANS AROUND THE WORLD AGREED TO BOYCOTT GAYFLOYD-MOSLEY FIGHT!!!! PLEASE DONT BUY PPV FOR THIS CRAP!!!! PASS THIS MESSAGE TO ALL NETWORKING SITE!!1
pacman vs clottey a boxing match and fans knows the pacman delives big time
shane vs floyd a track and field event or a dancing with the stars episode and floyd has the uncanny ability to turn an exciting fight into a boring event, hmmmmm zzzzzzzz, you are right mr writer floyd wins. hyped it up so more so more people would be bored on fight day.
Pacquiao and Clottey are non-Americans therefore they aren't expected to draw bigger PPV than Mosley and Mayweather who are Americans.. the target market is the American public and this is a no-brainer the latter pair holds home court the advantage.. also, Clottey is not a household name compared to both Mosley and Mayweather who have developed their own unique personas to the consciousness of the mainstream fans which is a big minus to the PPV draw of Pac vs Clottey fight.. this aint Pac's fault or detrimental to Pac's future draw coz Pac takes on all comers be it a household name or what have you and wise boxing fans know that as a fact...
Pacquiao vs Clottey will do very good both in the live gate and the ppv because boxing fans are suppose to watch an exciting match and don't feel like they're making themselves to believe that a fight is exciting. Probably another wrong decision and expectation in watching that kind of boxing match. Pacquiao became popular because despite of being a boxer from the PI,
he made good to amazing fights in the USA.
another boring fight from floyd. the best that floyd has to offer is a boring fight after all the talk, and talk is cheap. am definitely not paying for this one no matter how boxing writers hype it up. floyd has fought so many times and all of them are boring anyway althoug writers must have seen a different fight or are boxing writers today confused between boxing and marathon?
Gayduckers supposed to fight on 13 march as wel but retreated bcoz he know he wil lose on ppv buys until gbp buys berto so that to save gaypanty from another serback. Anyway he already lost to pac-cotto compare to floyd panty - marqueZ then why u r stil arguing?
Mayweather Mosley = 3Million buys
Clottey pacquiao = 000.00 buys hihihi!
pacman is the bigger draw even if he takes on anyone. he's well known for taking on bigger opponent and that what separates him from the likes of floyd!
you know how floyds wins his game it's always the same, running and scoring so predictable.
and you know how pacman fights. so unpredictable always has something new to offer.
for floyd-shane being an american won't bring any advantage to PVP sales. all americans know that floyd doesn't care about his fans. and american people are inteligent enough to know what they should do to give that monkey brainer floyd a lesson.
YES WE ALL BOYCOTT XYLOBOY GAYWEATHER CHICKEN DUCKER BECAUSE ITS A RUNNING AROUND FIGHT. GAYWEATHER WILL NOT FIGHT MOSLEY FACE TO FACE. BORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING FIGHT.
WE CALL ALL ASIAN BOXING FANS TO BOYCOTT XYLOBOY GAYWEATHER.
Pacquiao-Clottey = 800K PPV Buys
Mayweather-Mosley = 1M PPV Buys
mayweather-mosely fight with 1.5 MILLION ppv buys will tower over the pacquiao-clottey fight with 750 thousand buys. it WON'T even be close.. EASY call. boycotts or whatever will mean NOTHING. NOTHING at all. looking at ppv history of mayweather and pacuiao, its not even close that mayweather is the BIGGER ppv draw.
Mosley/Mayweather will blow Pac/Clottey fight simply because America loves to watch two n!ggers punching each other silly.
I've never bought any of chicken floyd's ppv,never will be.I just hate his guts,i hate his arrogance and i hate him for insulting and discriminating asian people.Calling all Filipinos and the rest of the asian people,let's boycott this bastard.
YES MAYWEATHER MAY OUTSELL KING PACMAN IN PPV SELLING BUT LOOKS WHOS MAYWEATHER IS FOOLING AROUND, ITS NO OTHER THAN "YOU" WHO WILL GOING TO BUY AND WATCH HIS PPV, YOU BEEN FOOLED BY THIS SCUMBAG MANY TIME AND STILL YOU NEVER LEARNED YOUR LESSON WELL... ALL FILIPINOS WILL JUST WATCH IT ON REPLAYS AND THATS FOR SURE! IF THIS S**THEAD DONT LIKE FILIPINOS, MUCH MORE ON US..WE DONT LIKE ARROGANT BASTARD APE LIKE HIM AND HIS PARANOID SICKO DRUG ADDICT FATHER AND HIS BULLS**T A-HOLE UNCLE! PWEHHHH~!
Mayweather--ALL Monkeys, chicken, gays, ducks, nutheads will watch..
Pacquiao-- Julio Chavez Jr., Pres. Bush, Sylvester Stallon... and the likes will watch..
Maybe may outsell, but Filipinos for sure don't buy pay-per view on Mayweather vs. Mosley fight.....That's for sure.....
I will not buy PVV on May 1 and i am one of those who will boycott this fight because i dont want to be fooled by Matweather and GBP..
I will not buy a PVV on Mat 1 and i am one of those who will boycott this fight because i dont want to be fooled by Mayweather and GBP i'd rather wait the uploaded fight on YOUTUBE..
If HBO will sell PPV in the Philippines and will not allow cinema to view Pacquiao-Clottey, i think the numbers of pacquiao will balloon to bigger number than mayweather...
Yeah, Mosley-Mayweather will easily outsell Pac-Josh fight, but I'll wait for the replay of of shane's and floyd fight, I cant miss it but wont pay for it, Im sure a lot of people who'll pay to see the May 1 fight would just want to see Floyd lose, they want to witness that, but I'd still bet on Floyd to win via split decision then a rematch will happen soon, I hope people will learn how boxing has become big business for some opportunistic
boxers and promoters. Some dont fight for the fans and for the good of the sport of boxing but for their financial gain alone. Good thing there's Pacquiao who still values the fans and paying or not and comes out fighting like there's no tomorrow. I hate to see scripted pressers specially scripted fights like dela Hoya and Hopkins and I wont be surprised if the same happens on May 1, but this time I aint buying...
BERNIE WALKER IS OBVIOUSLY BIASED... SUCKER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The outcome is a credible survey of "how many are fools" & "how many are descent & true boxing lovers"
Pacquiao vs Clottey - descent & true boxing lovers
Gayweather vs Mosley - FOOL & BASTARDS!
LOL!!
Here are the differing reasons why people watch the two fight:
Pacquaio vs Clottey - watch to be ENTERTAINED!
Gayweather vs Mosley - come to have a NAP! BORING.......Zzzzzzzzz..12 rounds of running & hugging! huhummmmm!!
I want to invite all FOOLS on May 1st to watch my show together with Mosley as my guest. I've been training for a while and you'll really be enterntained coz it'll be 1st time in the history of boxing that a boxer will RUN RUN RUN!! This is my preparation to challenge USAIN BOLT for the upcoming world championship!! SO ALL FOOLS ARE INVITE TO WATCH! LOL!
If you want to waste your time and hard earned money? watch my show and have some treat of a good NAP and I will assure you of that! For all those wanting to have some relaxation after a neck breaking office work. Please bring your own laptop or gamers so you could have other things to do if you feel you are getting bored. LOL!
ITS A SHAME FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IF PACMAN SURPASS THE PPV BUYS OF THEIR OWN MAN...
SHAME ON YOU GAYWEATHER!!
GAYWEATHER IS COWARD!
BOYCOTT THE GAYWEATHER VS MOSLEY FIGHT!!!!! IT IS A BORING & LOUSY FIGHT.
a telephone ring.. a friend call.., Mayweather win by UD against Mosley, and a rematch is being discuss on the table, Mayweather is so excited that the fight with Manny could happen very soon and Lil Floyd is asking a big share of the purse, but suddenly Manny announcing his retirement... Manny vs Floyd could not happen anymore... Lil Floyd was crying like a little baby because He let the 40 million dollars slip away, and Lil Floyd is also annoncing his retirement to preserved his 41 wins... Rematch with Mosley is in jeopardy and Mosley crying out, and said to himself, I should knock hin ouit in our first match if I know that this rematch could not be happen... OHH. I had been thinking now... He can KO out Floyd..? but He promise to have a rematch, and Mosley will win, the another trilogy of Mayweather vs Mosley, but who can trust Lil Floyd, and the Maywaethers..
suddenly my wife wake me up and it is 7:00am, then I realised it is a dream... I am dreaming...
i want floyd PPV sell by a mile than pacmans PPV. so that floyd will ask for the moon for fighting manny. Hehehehe coward floyd will have another good reason to duck pacquaio
Floyd is just trying to get millions out of the fans. The rematch clause proves it, clearly he wants to get the most money out of this old opponent. Boycott this fight at the gate or PPV should drive Floyd to the real world of boxing. Boxing is not his to manipulate!
Hey you guys! No need to waste money on Moseley-Mayweather, just watch its replay in a LOW-BUDGET LOCAL TV IN ANY COUNTRY EXCEPT THE PHILIPPINES, THEY WON"T BE SHOWING ANY OF IT AT THAT COUNTRY! LOLZ!
Hey you idiots!
Watch the Mayweather-Moseley fight or you Filipinos are a bunch of Pu$$ie$!
There will be a huge movement to boycott GBP and Mayweather!
All those on the side of GOOD and principled upbringing of our children, MAKE A STAND! PEOPLE POWER!
MANNY COULD SELL MORE THA N FLOYD EVEN IF MANNYS OPPONENT NOT MUCH KNOWN TO OTHERS ,HOW ABOUT YOU FLOYD ???LET'S SEE!!!!!????
realistically #1floydfan's mom and nanay ni Angel Totanes can allow 214 prison inmates to do anal sex on them 2 mother whores.
lalo na ang nanay ni Angel Totanes, kumakain ng uten sa umaga, tanghali at gabi.
PUKE NG INA MO TOTANES...
Selling outselling who will win remains to be seen. However the real issue here is why HBO not is not doing 24/7 on Pacquiao/Clottey fight and making it on Mayweather/Mosley fight? I smell discrimination here. I guess HBO does not want non American boxers to outsell American boxers, that is why they prefer to lose extra money by not promoting Pacquiao's fight than let Pacquiao outsells PBF. do you think so?
Someone had just sent me a text message...
It reads... I must stop ducking, diving, dodging, and babbling like a HEN cuz I ain't a rugby player but rather a boxer ( with a mouth of the most efficient salesman, pretty stench though!!! ) ...ouch! Nah... It's not likely to get into my nerves...got used to it already... You people out there perhaps haven't come across the maxim "Be Yourself", have you???
Well..pretty embarrassing to the person who coined it...
Anyways,... Please, I beg you not to boycott my upcoming scratching with Mosley... OR ELSE..... hehehehe...nothing...just trying to hold my damn tongue! PLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Love you guys! Wondergirls, a girlgroup from Korea says...I want your MONEY, your MONEY, NOT YOU!!!!
LOL!
and by the way, before I forget,,,I am not ducking Mosely anymore cuz he's an OLD HORSE alread
mayweather mosley fight will see more. i m from uk and this fight is free to watch. if i had to buy i ll not spend on ppv to watch pacman beating clottey easyly. i rather spend to watch mayweather mosely. it makes sence not to do HBO 24/7 bcuz clottey is not a big name n this s a easy match for pacman.
pacfans said mayweather is cherry picking n beg for him fight with good fighters now he is fighting mosley all of them saying mosley is easy for mayweather?
be realistic... the monkey had a great PPV numbers fighting Oscar..
because its Oscar man ! ey monkey its not all about you !!! remember that
Clottey Pacquiao fight = boring
can we not understand floyd's message? HE HAS NO INTENTION TO FIGHT PACMAN!!!look at how he treated pacman. pacman is the most prestigious fighter in the world, and floyd treated him like a caddy. pacman has belts, floyd the challenger has none and yet pacman gave him 50-50 purse split share. and in return, floyd destroyed pacman's reputation through smear campaign and ridiculous demands just so the fight won't push through. pacman will be facing an obscure opponent and will have lesser ppv than floyd. to make sure the fight won't happen floyd is making it clear beforehand, he deserves a payday almost twice than that of pacman. isn't it clear? to be able to fight him, pacman has to go through so much indignities? therefore, he is making it impossible to happen because he knows pacman won't barter his principles and dignity for money. so floyd will retire into sunset with his 0 intact. floyd has no dignity but ego,so his 0 is more important than money. it's not principle but stupidity.
American will not watch Clottey pacquiao fight coz they don't understand Orangutan language.
filipinos= boycott may-mos.plssssssss.
Americans will not watch Clottey Pacquiao fight coz they don't like steroids in sports.
ALL BOXING FANS AROUND THE WORLD AGREED TO BOYCOTT GAYFLOY-MOSLEY FIGHT!!!! DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY FOR THIS CRAP!!!! PASS THIS MESSAGE TO ALL NETWORKING SITE FRIENDS!!! RACIST GO TO HELL!!!
I'd prefer the Zoo and feed the monkey.
now all of the filipino fans just show much ppv you would do to manny vs clottey do not be cheap and try to steal the fight in the internet pay for the ppv to boost it....
No, why not just go to the zoo with family and friends and feed the monkeys,Guys be nice to animals please.
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