Things Not Looking Good for Mayweather-Marquez Bout
August 10th, 2009
By Jim Dower: With little over a month to go before the September 19th fight between Floyd “Money” Mayweather and Juan Manuel Marquez, the bout is attracting little attention and rarely discussed at all on the internet. It’s as if the fight isn’t even taking place, because there is barely a peep being mentioned about the fight. That’s not a good sign for Mayweather, because the bout will be pay-per-view and will be competing with the UFC 103 event, which takes place on the same night for a lot less money.
Certainly, Mayweather wasn’t a huge draw before the De La Hoya fight in 2007. Back then, Mayweather’s fights against Zab Judah were respectable but not even close to being huge. It wasn’t until Mayweather was matched with De La Hoya and Hatton that Mayweather was able to be in a fight that brought in huge numbers.
Mayweather seemed to be on the way to building up a fan base with his fights against Hatton and De La Hoya, and probably he’d be a huge bonafide star by now if he had stuck around and not retired. However, the two year retirement set Mayweather back in a big way, taking away a lot of his fans and leading to Manny Pacquiao becoming a huge star.
Now, Mayweather is finding out the hard way that he’s going to have to start from scratch if he wants to win back the boxing fans that he lost. All the talking that Mayweather has one lately in the media won’t be enough on it’s own to bring in the fans, because it takes a little more than that to get the attention of boxing fans nowadays.
Fans have had a huge dose of bragging and trash talking by British heavyweight David Haye, who then did nothing to back up his words in the ring by backing out on two consecutive fights with the Klitschko brothers. It’s probably not possible for the Mayweather-Marquez fight to interest fans, because of Mayweather’s inactivity and the history of him being less than fan friendly in many of his fights.
With his hit and run style of fighting, Mayweather is the opposite of what many boxing fans are looking for when they lay down their hard earned money to watch a fight. The Marquez honestly shouldn’t even be a pay-per-view fight at this point.
Mayweather is coming out of a two year retirement, and will likely be rusty from inaction. To top it off, Mayweather has selected a fighter that fights two weight classes below him in lightweight Marquez. That makes Mayweather look like a cherry picking bully to many boxing fans. There’s no interest in seeing Mayweather fight someone two divisions below him.
Marquez may be a better fighter than Mayweather if the size disparity were removed, but the fact remains, Mayweather is the bigger fighter and will likely be able to win because of that alone. That isn’t the recipe that Mayweather should have been looking for in his comeback. He needed to fight a welterweight like Miguel Cotto, Shane Mosley or someone like Paul Williams.
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Style make the fight two counter puncher its going to be a boring fight. I’ll wait for a replay and record it so i can fall sleep at night when i watch it lol
there are very few “true boxing fans”. it’s the casual boxing fan that bring in the numbers– and pacquiao has a lot of casual boxing fans.
As mentioned by a few people above; true boxing fans will definitley be BUYING this fight. UFC? What the ****? UFC is a joke. Boxing is a sweet science and the main event fighters, Marquez and Mayweather, are two of its’ most brilliant scientists.
Someone mentioned that the sales will boost once 24/7 starts airing and I 100% agree. Anyone who knows anything about boxing will be buying this fight. Not only will the fight itself be great, as will the undercard, but it’s also going to provide a glimpse of what’s to become of two of the greatest boxers of our era. Mayweather hasn’t fought in 22 months come fight night. Will he be rusty or fully rested? Will Marquez come up strong in weight or will he be slower and smaller? I’m definitley buying this one. I think the winner of this fight goes to the winner of pacman and Cotto. Hoping for a Cotto-Mayweather fight!!! Also, I’m predicting a Cotto win over pacman, I’m not 100% sold on Mayweather beating a HIGHLY underrated Marquez. DEFINITE BUY.
first why you say “for a lot less money”??????? ufc is 44.95, mayweather for 49.95 – that’s just a five bucks!!!! and ufc will KILL m vs m – they’ll get about 800k buys and boxing will get 400-600k….
JUAN MANUEL IS GONNA WIN EASY OVER FLOYD. AND PAC MAN IS JUST TRYING TO IGNORE HIM MAKE HIME GET WAITING FOR HIM TO GET OLDER. PAC MAN KNOWS WHO HIS DADDY IS. TO ME JUAN MANUEL IS THE REAL POUND FOR POUND IN THE WORLD
art, you’re dumb.
power-pacman speed- pac timing- pac heart- pac cotto- no heart- chin pac ! winner pac by ko !
To anyone that believes this is gonna be some sort of boring fight, i would have to disagree, on one end you have a fighter who has been retired almost two years coming back to fight a fighter who has knocked out Casemayor and Diaz while moving up in weight… there’s too much drama not to watch, it may be the first time Mayweather actually loses a fight… anyone writing this off as a walk in the park for Mayweather really doesn’t understand boxing and has no respect for Marquez as a boxer, besides size and maybe speed, Mayweather doesn’t have that many advantages, also how can you dismiss this fight and then want to see Mayweather fight Pacquiao who is also naturally smaller… this is gonna be a fight between the two best tacticians in the sport right now and it’s anyone’s fight, then you have people who believe that the Pac/Cotto fight will be a better fight, let me save you the money that fight will be won by Cotto(TKO5) let’s see where the advantages lie:
Power-Cotto,
Speed-Pac,
Timing-Cotto,
Heart-Even,
Chin-Cotto
Resiliancy/Ability to make adjusments-Cotto…
If Maywether defeats Marquez and then defeats the winner of Pac/Cotto, what will all the naysayers say? I honestly hope that Marquez and Pac either both win or both lose, because to me Marquez vs Pacquiao III is the best fight Boxing could ask for and if Marquez wins the third match i’ll be begging for a fourth as everything would be even between the two
What happens if Marquez and Cotto both win? Pac and Floyd could still fight in a type of loser’s bracket but what do Marquez and Cotto do? I couldn’t see them fighting each other
for all those who are buying…..condolence!
I will be buying both of these fights and then the fight between the winners also they are all intruiging
I’m really wanna watch the fight but no way i’m paying £15 for it. I’ll wait to its replayed
Really not worth watching via satellite or pay per view… I’ll just watch the replay…. Very nice article, it was objective and brought some sense into Mayweather’s head (which is up to this time full of hot air)
lil floyd and marquez are over the hill, i rather watch little house on the prairie.
nah…. ufc 103 bags this one, until the pac wars.
i will save my 50 for pac cotto. poor thing marquez wrong plce wrong timing as good as he is. excitement makes the interest and with PBF its boring to the end and the bragging!!! wow he can fight pac if they both win.. hehheheeh 10 % for PBF if i am pac take it or leave it. PBF cant sell and u can ask hatton and dela hoya. PBF is begging the black community to support him.. with his arrogant can you blame the lack of support no matter what race is it …
Oh forgot, I’d love to see Marquez take Mayweather, but I think for all his guts Marquez will be too slow and too small to catch Floyd and hurt him. I see a UD for Floyd, in a boring hit and run!
I agree by the looks of it, Del La Hoya and Hatton bought the fans and the money!
End of the excuses that Floyd’s money and Mosley is not.
Mosley v Mayweather that’s the fight us fans deserve and one Mayweather will never take, because he know’s he’ll get schooled!
This will be a great fight. In the past JMM was a counter puncher. Waiting for the other fighter to make a mistake. He has changed his style since then. He is more of an aggressor. He is not afraid to come after you. The undercards are pretty good as well. I can’t wait to see the Juarez – John II. Should be a great fight. I don’t know why people are complaining about the $50.00 PPV fee. Just get a couple of friends pitch in $15.00 each and you should have enough to cover the fight, pizza and a case of beer!!!
how can people say that its going to be a boring fight????are u for reeal?..its going to be one of the best fights ever..2 of the most decorated fighters in history fighting for the right to be called best pound for pound fighter and the winner to fight pacquao if he beats cotto…whats more attractive than that..
BOXFAN, ur maybe a dancing fan,not a boxing fan!
This will be a boxing match between a crybaby and a running baby!!!
The writer is right. This will be a boring match and need to be watched on replays only for free,hah,hah,hah….
the fight according to mayweather and goldenboy is doing well, plus it has judah etc on the undercard and is still over a monrth away and 24/7 aint even started yet. i think people just want it to do bad cause they wana down mayweather more as usual, i for 1 being a true boxing fan and wanting to c fighters with skill will order it.
also the fight was talked about alot but becasude of the delay its not the hot topic that it was at the start obviously.it was originally announced in may…u think people are still gona b constantly talking about it now?
truly, JMM is the Best fighter…you have seen, as you said, then He must stop Mayweather jr. first, before he can face Pacman again, i guess this will not be a boring fight. lets see an upset then…Good luck.:)
I just found out that the fight is PPV in England. Oh dear, can’t see many people buying it for 16.95!
Already a forgone conclusion before the fights even begun.
If Mayweather is so bad as you all say,that shows what bums fatton,Corrales,Gatti and Manfredy were.He murdered them and they were supposed to be world champions.And talking about cherry picking,Mayweather was forced to fight De la hoja,with De la Hoja coming in at Middle weight on the fight night,while mayweather was still at welter.De la hoja drained himself to make the fight with pac-man he had nothing left at fight time.Dela Hoja and pac-man used 8 ounce gloves,Mayweather had to contend with 10 ounce pillows.Mayweather 3was thye smaller man when he fought castillio,corralles,gatti,that argentinian ,even fatton who has been fighting at lt.welter all his life was much bigger than mayweather on fight night.Mayweather started out pro.as a featherweight.All these guys were all lt.weltr.or weltr.atthe start of their carreers
You people should tune in on UFC .Thats primitive blood and guts.Boxing is an art,and Mayweather is the best there is at that art form.
THIS, A BORING FIGHT??? NEVER THAT… PACMAN’S LAST 2 FIGHTS HAVE BEEN BORING, WASTE OF MONEY… HITTING A HUMAN PUNCHING BAG, AND KNOCKING OUT A DEFENSELESS BOXER IN 2 ROUNDS…NO CHALLENGE…BOOOORRRING!!!
JMM WILL SURELY WIN THIS FIGHT… HE IS CHASING DOWN PACQUIAO… HE IS A BEAST… HE IS PACMAN’S NIGHTMARE… PACMAN’S P4P THRONE WILL BE TRULLY EARNED BY DYNAMITA… UPSET! 9/19/09
floyd will stop diz kid
The undercard is pretty hot,and JMM is the best pure counterpuncher in the world.I’m a fight fan.I guess I’m in.P.S. the UFC is boring.
Mayweather-Marquez 24/7 debuts on 8/29! 24/7 first debuted for Floyd-Oscar, then he did it again when he fought Hatton & that helped boost those 2 PPVs over 2 million worldwide buys!! 24/7 will be a major boost to Mayweather-Marquez and the fact that this clown Jim Dower fails to mention 24/7 OR the PPV totals for Money’s last 2 fights shows what an ignorant hater he really is…LOL!
It will be airing just about every day from 8/29 right up until fight night!! BTW Marquez has muscled up big time & is looking very strong in training…this will be a VERY competitive fight that could easily turn out to be a JMM upset…
if the ppv is $5 not $50 ill buy it
i’ll surely fall asleep.
wake me up when “running man” is done…
for $50, i don’t think so. i’ll just watch it at the casino. but i’ll pay for pacquiao-cotto.
OF COURSE I’LL BUY THIS FIGHT!!!!! PLUS THE UNDERCARD IS ONE OF THE BEST A BOXING PPV HAD IN A LONG LONG TIME
JOHN VS JUAREZ II
KATSIDIS VS ESCOBEDO
if you know about boxing you know that all these fights are gonna be exciting!!!
I love boxing. I don’t know when are we going to get another match up like this one, but it will definitely not be soon.
I’m buying.
boringggggggg fight !!!
haha, why watch a lousy dance when paying for a fight?
no way……. no blood, no thrill – no honey from me, not even a dime.
I love boxing but I will always watch the UFC first and then find the boxing elsewhere later. I am pulling for the upset here. Go Marquez!
true boxing fans, i.e people who love the sweet science (the art of hit and not get hit) will purchase the fight. the sheer beauty and technique of boxing makes it impossible for ufc to be in the same league.
mayweather is a moron- he thinks hes a brilliant business man but he definately is not- he is a good boxer but thats were his talent stops! He keeps bragging how much money he has but if it werent for delahoya he wouldnt have that much cash! He needs to wake up from his freakin dream that he is the best boxer and deserves the most money – we all know that pacman is the man right now!
I believe Marquez is being seriously under estimated. Many see the fight as a foregone conclusion (a win for Mayweather) but i for one dont see it going that way. I believe Marquez will win and rightfully be universally recognised as the P4P KING!!!
bob is the best boxer ever
may who? boring boring boring!!!!
That is “Dancing without a Star”.
Body-English without sense.
Good for PBF bad for JMM cause he deserves a good payday he’s a warrior. I remember at the end of the Hatton fight when PBF at the post fight conference when he said “I dont need boxing no more”, with that arrogance,I lost alot of respect for PBF after that you would’nt be where you’re at if was’nt for boxing well look at you now your fight is’nt selling. Start fighting the fighters of your era at your weight division. Your only as good as your opponents. The WW division has the caliber of fighters the Ali error had, think about that PBF. To be the G.O.A.T you have to fight the best and they’re there for you. Your mouth and hit and run style is going to make you a great fighter. Wake the f!@# up PBF………..
I for one will surely just wait for the replay of this bout…rather than wasting your your hard earned money.