Is De La Hoya a PPV Bust?
December 5th, 2008
By Jason Kim: With only one win out of four huge PPV bouts, Oscar De La Hoya has been somewhat of a dismal failure on big PPV bouts with over 900,000 buys or more. For a fighter as popular as De La Hoya is, he probably should be a lot less popular than he is given his track record in huge PPV bouts. With lesses to Floyd Mayweather Jr., Bernard Hopkins and Shane Mosley, he has frequently come up short in his biggest fights of his career in terms of the biggest PPV buys.
Naturally, some of that has to do with the high quality opposition that he’s faced in those bouts, but still, there’s no escaping from the fact that De La Hoya has failed in three out of his four biggest PPV bouts in his career, coming up short most of the time.
With a record like this, it seems as if De La Hoya doesn’t warrant the attention that he gets, because after all, past success should be the measuring stick for popularity in PPV fights, not failure. In De La Hoya’s case, he has struggled when taking on top level fighters in the past five years, and more often than not, had to settle for a loss in fights like this.
On Saturday, the boxing public will give him one more chance to try and redeem himself, albeit against Manny Pacquiao, a fighter several classes below him in weight.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. (5/07) 2.4 million buys = $120 million – De La Hoya loses by 12-round split decision.
Bernard Hopkins (9/04) 1 million buys = $56.0 million – De La Hoya is stopped in the 9th round.
Shane Mosley II (9/03) 950,000 buys = $48.4 million – De La Hoya loses by a 12-round unanimous decision.
Fernando Vargas (9/02) 935,000 buys = $47.8 million – De La Hoya stops Vargas in the 11th round.
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C’mon seriously what is the guy that has lost 3 out of his last 6 fights doing to even deserve to fight an undefeated champ like Manny Pacquiao? Yeah it’s a money fight, but us real boxing fans don’t wanna see Oscar De La Hoya fighting anybody who is undefeated or a champ. Why did Mayweather even bother accepting to fight Oscar, he should have fought Margarito, Cotto or even Paul Williams, since he like to run his mouth saying that he’s the best. This is the real reason boxing is soooooooo dead. Myself I would love to Ugly boy Floyd get his face smashed by Margarito or Cotto, but we all know that he’s scared to get hurt, and he would prefer to give Oscar another pillowfight rematch.
I dont quite get this article. When a sports man or team gets fans those fans stick with them through thick and thin.
De La Hoya has alot of fans and just cuz hes lost a few doesnt mean that people will stop being his fans.
And theres no shame losing to the people hes lost to, they are far far far from nobodies. And if De La Hoya went in to fights against bums hed be cleaning them out in a round or 2. who would want to pay for a fight against a nobody thats only guna last a couple of rounds. Especially with the cost of PPV in America.
What a ridiculous article. Where does it say that popularity is directly correlated to success?
If you use that reasoning Floyd Mayweather Jr should be more popular than Ricky Hatton and Bernard Hopkins should be a crowd favourite…. thankfully that’s not how popularity works.
Stop being so jealous and stop publishing this S#$*@E !