Mayweather-Marquez takes in 1 Million PPV Sales – News
September 25th, 2009
By Chris Williams: HBO is announcing that last weekend’s bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Juan Manuel Marquez has brought in an incredible 1 million pay-per-view buys, bringing in $52 million dollars. If this number is in fact true, and not some bogus number thrown up by HBO to try and make the Mayweather-Marquez event look bigger and better than it was perceived, then I see it as a bad thing for boxing.
Why not seek out more little fighters, maybe even smaller than Marquez so that Mayweather can look really impressive and more money is made. Some people might see this as a validation of Mayweather’s talent and notoriety in the sport, but when boxing fans are served up one-sided mismatches like this, then the fans lose. It doesn’t necessarily need to be about mismatches in size. A mismatch between talent levels is just as bad. Just at looking tat the Mayweather-Marquez fight, I absolutely knew 100% that this fight was a pathetic mismatch, and so did a ton of other knowledgeable sports experts. However, the poor casual fan with his rudimentary knowledge about the sport didn’t realize obviously that Marquez had virtually no chance and threw away their hard earned $50 on this dreary mismatch.
That’s really sad. I didn’t waste a dime on this and saved my money rather than throw it away. I’ll do the same thing in the future when I see more mismatches and they can put together 24/7 series until they’re blue in the face, but I won’t purchase it if it’s a garbage match-up like the Mayweather-Marquez fight. And that goes for Mayweather-Pacquiao. If they want to show Mayweather, then let him fight someone his own size like Shane Mosley or Miguel Cotto rather than some teeny tiny fighter from two to three divisions below him.
I don’t care if the event did well. The fight was worse than horrible, a total mismatch from the word go and painfully boring to watch unless you like seeing a little guy get dominated all night long by a younger, bigger and faster fighter. I like Mayweather a lot as a fighter, but I don’t like seeing him fight a shrimp. Just I wouldn’t like to see Chad Dawson fight a welterweight or Wladimir Klitschko to fight a small, old light heavyweight.
How would that look? Klitschko hand picks and old light heavyweight to fight and then puts the fight on pay-per-view for $50. You think that would go over well? Maybe it would if HBO put on one of their 24/7 series and hyped the fight, making it seem as if it were to be competitive. The ignorant boxing public, the ones that don’t have clue one about boxing, would gladly purchase it on pay-per-view, thinking they’d be watching a competitive fight. Instead, they’d see Klitschko destroy the little light heavyweight in a round or two or possibly drag it out like Mayweather did by jabbing the poor little guy for 12 rounds.
Not all of the success of this event was because of Mayweather. Perhaps a good portion of it was because of Hispanic viewers purchasing the card to see Marquez fight. However, I imagine that they were less than pleased with the results, and I can’t blame them. Marquez is really a super featherweight who only recently moved up to lightweight.
Marquez doesn’t look good nearly as good as lightweight than he did as a featherweight or super featherweight. Add to that the fact that Mayweather came in two pounds over the 144 pound catch weight that Marquez and Mayweather was supposed to be fighting at, meaning that Marquez was fighting Mayweather at the full weight limit of the welterweight division.
The weight probably didn’t matter in the end as far as the ultimate decision goes, because Mayweather clearly would have beaten Marquez no matter what weight that they came in at. However, it would have been fairer to Marquez, who was moving up nine pounds to fight Mayweather and who did his part by coming in at 142, two pounds under the catch weight limit of 144.
As I said, I think the results of this fight may lead to a disturbing trend of hyping more mismatches in the future by putting together an HBO 24/7 series and advertising it like crazy.
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“How on earth can you bash the undercard?! Im completely flabborgasted, you certainly wouldn’t see anything like this on secondsout or boxingtalk! The undercard has been praised by many experts as the best big fight undercard in years! I honestly just cannot believe you would suggest otherwise! Michael Katsidas, Chris John and Rocky Juarez, uninteresting, my god how much do you actually follow the sport. Im not hating or criticising for the sake of it, I just can’t understand why someone claiming to be a boxing writer could come out with such nonsense”
Children, when writing about boxing, don’t give any credit to fighters they personally dislike, no matter what happens.
It’s why fools like this are consigned to boxing forums.
“60% FMJ haters..
30% Latino/JMM fans..
8% People that cant sleep..
and
2% FMJ fans..”
Sad sad man. Yet to work out that 90% of the boxing community is not stuck up 18 year olds, who support fighters like football teams
“3. Manny Pacquiao-De La Hoya, 2008, 1.25 million, $70 million: Filipino did a paint job in a stunning eight-round stoppage; a potential Mayweather fight in 2010 could smash all records.”
That’s completely made up by the way
Manny vs. Oscar only sold 820’000, and wasn’t even in the top 10 for biggest revenue. Your quoting the totally made up numbers Arum claimed.
You sir, are a complete and utter tool.
Why on earth are people who know nothing about boxing, given any sort of platform to write about it?
Bad for boxing because a mismatch that nobody wants to watch is watched by a lot of people.
Are you yet to work out that a LOT of people want to watch Floyd Mayweather. And the pathetic haters like you, are a bit of a minority.
He has a huge number of fans, and people really wanted to watch that bout.
It’s only clowns like you that are claiming that it’s not the case
For the sake of discussion, in this discussion nobody is to be considered right or wrong lets face it….please avoid saying filthy words….Floyd defeated Marquez, people watched,boxing fans responsded both positive and negative…lets face it, that part of the cycle but the end of the story, that might be brought a good message for boxing, to make boxing interesting to public….Marquez is a tough fighter but he was defeated buy a tougher Floyd that fight night..there was no mismatched….de la hoya vs floyd was a split decision…before de la hoya vs pacquaio was predicted a mismatched,INCLUDING HIS PREVIOUS FIGHTS AND HATTON..THINK OF THAT!!!!!!!DONT FOOL PEOPLE,GIVE RESPECTS INDIIVDUAL TALENTS OF EVERY BOXERS, REMEMBER THESE BOXERS ARE HIGHLY RATED AND CHAMPIONS BEFORE ITS MATCHES…to sum up in every match up one has to go home as loser and the other is a winner…..opinion is good but be positive…
Chris, thats completely ridiculous! how can this possibly be bad for boxing? I mean many pundits were asking whether boxing could survive without Oscar, they got their answer with these ppv numbers. I just cannot fathom how you can possibly dispute this.
How on earth can you bash the undercard?! Im completely flabborgasted, you certainly wouldn’t see anything like this on secondsout or boxingtalk! The undercard has been praised by many experts as the best big fight undercard in years! I honestly just cannot believe you would suggest otherwise! Michael Katsidas, Chris John and Rocky Juarez, uninteresting, my god how much do you actually follow the sport. Im not hating or criticising for the sake of it, I just can’t understand why someone claiming to be a boxing writer could come out with such nonsense.
Me and most of my friends got the fight to see JMM fight and whether it was lopsided or not everybody loves a David and Goliath ending. It didn’t happen but from where I am standing I’d say the majority of PPV Buys was to see JMM fight. Mayweather was a whole 20% of it. You want proof? How many of you will pay $50 dollars to watch Mayweather fight again? The answer is most likely, only if it is against Manny, anybody else? Probably not.
All I know i live in a small town of 5.000 , Im mexican and i renteed the fight and i know at least another 10 people that rented the fight in my towm.
People buying boxing PPV events can only be a positive, no matter who is boxing and whether one fighter has a disadvantage or not. Why throw your biased hating of Mayweather into it? Your supposedly a boxing writer and you come out with a sentence like this,
“If this number is in fact true, and not some bogus number thrown up by HBO to try and make the Mayweather-Marquez event look bigger and better than it was perceived, then I see it as a bad thing for boxing.”
The world is still in a recession, and you see the figures produced for a PPV boxing card as a negative?
No wonder I am reguarly banned from this website for voicing my opinion, when ‘writers’ produce biased articles of this calibre!
I disagree with parts of this acticle. It sounds like more negativity just thrown at FMJ. This proves that FMJ is a draw and the writer doesn’t seem to like that. People wanted to see FMJ after not seeing him in action for almost 2 years. Yes, it was a mismatch and the Pacqiuao fight will be a mismatch too.Let’s remember that Pacman is a little guy too and Marquez gave him all he could handle. I predict much of the same in that fight against FMJ. It may be worse for pacman because he actually comes in. Worse meaning that he will get caught coming in and possible get knocked out. The chances of a knock out for FMJ are much higher against Pacman. Pacman will land more than Marquez did but expect the same or a worser out come. We are already hyping a mismatch….Mayweather vs. Pacqiauo!!!!
Remarkable how everyone knows it was a mismatch now after the event when quite a few were picking JMM to win as he was active in great shape and PBF had not fought for two years!!
good story my oppinion it was a mitchmatch no question but if it did sell over a million buys then it can only be a plus for the sport and it should shut dana whites mouth for abit lets hope that cotto and pacquiao can do the same thing
in my estimation, the ones that bought the PPV could be:
60% FMJ haters..
30% Latino/JMM fans..
8% People that cant sleep..
and
2% FMJ fans..
is it just me or has oscar de la hoya lost every mega fight hes ever been in? lol just looking over that list and even though he seems the best salesman in boxing he doesnt seem to get the job done in the ring…best stick to the promoting!
Great story stayed up to 4.30 in the morning and very disapponted with the fight.Easy to see the weight diffents FJM very overrated i would like to see him fight Williams or Wright
The top non-heavyweight pay-per-view events in boxing history:
1. Floyd Mayweather-Oscar De La Hoya, 2007, 2.44 million, $136.6 million: Mayweather won a 12-round decision and buyers smashed the previous PPV record for all weights, set by Lennox Lewis-Mike Tyson.
2. Felix Trinidad-De La Hoya, 1999, 1.4 million, $71.4 million: De La Hoya backpedaled in the championship rounds and backed his way from seemingly certain victory into his first career loss.
3. Manny Pacquiao-De La Hoya, 2008, 1.25 million, $70 million: Filipino did a paint job in a stunning eight-round stoppage; a potential Mayweather fight in 2010 could smash all records.
4. Bernard Hopkins-De La Hoya, 2004, 1 million, $56 million: Hopkins’ liver punch in the ninth round sent De La Hoya down for a 10-count and persuaded him the best middleweight was just too big.
5. Maywather-Juan Manuel Marquez, 2009, 1 million, $52 million: Mayweather came back from a layoff of 21 months, 11 days, and looked like he never left, both in the ring and the PPV box office.