By Chris Williams: Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer believes that the May 5th pay per view card headlined by Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Miguel Cotto will be the biggest PPV event since Mayweather’s May 2007 PPV fight against Oscar De La Hoya, which draw 2.4 million buys.
Since then, the highest buyrate was for Manny Pacquiao Juan Manuel Marquez III last November in a fight that brought in 1.45 million PPV buys.
Schaefer told Fighthype.com “It’s going to be the biggest pay-per-view then [De La Hoya-Mayweather], no question about it.”
I have to agree with Schaefer, because this fight has four big money guys in Cotto, Saul Alvarez, Shane Mosley and Mayweather. It doesn’t matter that the undercard is absolutely horrid once you get past the Mosley-Alvarez mismatch; the card will bring in a ton of PPV buys just because of the Mayweather-Cotto, Mosley-Alvarez fights.
It would have been extremely nice if Mayweather hadn’t insisted on having Deandre Latimore vs. Carlos Quintana, Jessie Vargas vs. TBA, because I don’t know of anyone at all that wants to see any of those guys fight. Golden Boy could have really done it right if they had lost those fighters and looked to put some semi-big name fighters to help make the card a lot more interesting and appealing to boxing fans.
As it is, the card has three mismatches with Mayweather being far too good for Cotto, and Alvarez facing a shot Mosley, and Latimore being much too talented for Quintana. It doesn’t matter who Vargas fight, because there won’t be much interest no matter who is brought in for that one. I know he’s one of Mayweather’s fighters but they could have really helped the card by losing him and Latimore, as well as Quintana.
I think the PPV numbers will eclipse the Pacquiao-Marquez numbers, but not by much. It’s a good card but stacked too heavily in the mismatches at the top of the card with the bottom of the card completely neglected with some god awful fights.
I personally won’t pay a dime to see this card because I only watch competitive fight cards and this one has mismatches written all over it. Cotto hasn’t fought a live opponent since he got destroyed by Pacquiao three years ago; Mosley is completely shot as a fighter; Alvarez has been protected his entire career and I don’t care if I ever seen Vargas, Quintana or Latimore fight again. I have no interest in paying to see those guys fight.
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