Rigo vs Mares would be a great fight.
A chinny, young ,dirty and active brawler vs a faster and powerful seasoned veteran
I like Floyd but I'm very happy to read that his recent fight may have well under a million buys
Mares vs De Leon is a good fight but not good enough to carry a regular showtime card by itself
Floyd is smart because he paid the whole card under 5 million but as a consumer that card was not worth $70
If he's fighting Guerrero esque comp then his cards need to be deeper
you know....I am really skeptical of these early numbers. I would be surprised if this was less than 1 million buys. Really. With CBS doing the promo and all, I would expect there to be many more buys than what is being reported.
I could be wrong, and that would only prove that Showtime is not ready for the big time yet and will have to make some serious adjustments beginning with finding a more marketable opponent for Floyd's next fight.
Really though, I always gripe about undercards. No one does it like :dkufdup: and even Top Rank is not as shytty as GBP. These fights arent worth $70...I surely dont pay that much for them. I get a discount so I pay about $40....I will fukk that up on a dinner or a trip to the sporting goods store randomly. Still, $40 is not really worth it to me. Only paid it so I could come in and chat it up with you guys here. A lot of people are streaming these fights now....so that plays a part too.
Nevertheless, better undercards may get more real fans like us to buy but not the casual fan...and I use that term casual loosely. No. Floyd needs better opponent or at least a "perceived" better opponent.
Showtime is still much smaller than HBO especially as far as their market outlet when it comes to boxing. Plus I am sure the fallout between GBP and HBO played a hand in lackluster numbers. Just by removing all of Floyd's content off of HBOGO has hurt this fight I guarantee you.
GBP is not experienced in promotion, they are noted as being extremely unorganized. Mayweather promotions brings little to the table to offset that inexperience which was masked when GBP was doing business with HBO.
If these numbers are below 1 million
they need to get creative fast. Maybe serve Ishe to Canelo to make Canelo undisputed, and maybe bring in Trout as Mayweather's next opponent. Building for undisputed 154 championship fight for May, sort of like a 4 man tourney....but on the same CARD! Because if the numbers from Ghost fight are that bad, I will have to backtrack on Danny being the next opponent.
totally out of the view of the ref. Ortiz did a straight billy goat butt the WHOLE world could see. Not cool. He checked out because he got frustrated early. then he hugged Floyd like 3 times and when the ref said break he had his hands down! talk about a lack of focus. Guerrero was locked in the whole fight and never stopped trying...Ortiz quit as soon as he found out he couldnt hit Mayweather. I gave him a pass against Lopez, but he checked out against Floyd. Mentally, he aint all there for fights of large magnitudes. If he cant hit his opponent or they dont stay down like Maidana refused to do, he has no plan B and just panics. Berto's mistake was he gave him enough confidence early to last him for 12 rounds.
