Mosley vs. Mora will be over 100,000 PPV buys
September 25th, 2010
By Dan Ambrose: Dan Rafael of ESPN is reporting that last Saturday nights’ bout between Shane Mosley (46-6-1, 39 KO’s) and Sergio Mora (22-1-1, 6 KO’s) will bringing in over 100,000 pay per view buys. Although the official PPV tallies are still not in, Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer told Rafael that the PPV numbers will be over 100,000. Obviously, those are very low numbers when you compare the mega stars like Floyd Mayweather Jr., Miguel Cotto and Manny Pacquiao, who are bringing in up to 1.4 million PPV buys recently.
That just shows you that Mosley’s choice of Mora backfired on him, because it’s the main event that draws most of the fans and this main event was really lacking. Mosley had to settle for a 12 round draw, as he struggled badly to land his shots against the bigger, slicker, younger and faster Mora.
It’s hard to imagine that Mosley couldn’t find someone else that was more popular and who had a style that was more suited towards his. If nothing else, Mosley should have fought someone that was at least hittable. If he was going to fight on a card that resulted in poor PPV numbers, then he should have picked a more stationary opponent than Mora.
I could see going into this fight that it wasn’t going to bring in huge PPV numbers simply because Mora isn’t a popular fighter and Mosley isn’t a huge enough name to bring in massive amounts of fans on his own. He needs help for his fights to be huge. I think Golden Boy Promotions might have been fooled by Mosley’s huge1.4 million buys his fight with Floyd Maweather Jr. did in May. Those numbers were largely because of Mayweather, boxing’s cash cow. Mosley is a big name but he’s not big enough to draw huge PPV numbers when he’s matched against an obscure fighter.
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It was a sorry ass pay per view.
Seriously, I think Oscar DLH owes us an apology for that PPV fight. Mosely has proven himself already, but he is done. Mora is a complete joke, i am truly disappointed in Oscar DLH
it just shows how many suckers there are out there.
One thing i will say about this is Mosley should have won this fight, he was robbed.
Mosley a PPV star no more, must retire and take rest completely.
@Moo,
I’m not so sure that Pac-cheater does 1 mill… I’m leaning towards 900-950K, but we shall see.
@ hostage taker
If mosley haldnt lost so badly to floyd and um mabey faught some one who people care about, lets say any one other than sergio mora, like Alfredo Angulo, Sergio Martinez, Paul Willims, Cotto rematch probably would have been closer to 4 or 500,000. But he did loose badly and look old and hi did figt a nobody. Pluss il admit it before any one Shane Has never realy been a huge PPV. And Floyd could do 1 Mill PPV against almost anyone. Same with Pac, 700,000 to watch him fight nobody Clottey. Cheato Pac does 1 mill easy just bc margarito is mexican and has a fan base.
Hmmm…so I guess the 1.4 million PPV buys from Mayweather-Mosley…must have been primarily due to….Floyd?
Uh-oh….
Where are the Phagtards with their silly attempts to discredit FMJ’s PPV buys?
Like I said before, who’s idiotic idea to make the headliner of a PPV event with an old, washed up, 40 year old who showed his age in his last fight, against a known boring, defensive fighter?
MOSLEY VS MORA AS A PPV HEADLINER? ? Come on, GBP, you guys must be morons over there if you think that filling the card with young, unproven talent against stiffs would bring in the PPV buys.
I guess Schaefer is a moron, this is the same moron that was asking Arum for a 50% share for Marquez against Pacquiao, and they were also dictating that the fight must be made at 140 pounds. LMAO What a bunch of idiots they are at GBP.
So far Arum is running circles around Oscar and Schaefer. GBP’s biggest draws are two of the oldest fighters on the planet, Mosley and Hopkins. LMAO