(Photo Credit: John Filo/SHOWTIME) By Chris Williams: Floyd Mayweather Jr. feels that it pretty much doesn’t matter who he faces because boxing fans will pay to see his fights because he’s involved. Mayweather Jr. is fighting Robert Guerrero on May 4th, and Mayweather freely acknowledges that he wasn’t too familiar with the 29-year-old Guerrero before he picked him out, but it won’t stop boxing fans from paying to see the fight in high numbers on May 4th on Showtime/CBS from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Mayweather said to Mlive.com “I barely know who Robert Guerrero is. People buying pay per view, they’re buying just to see Floyd Mayweather. I’ve earned the right to choose whoever I want. Nobody’s forced to watch it…I’m really not worried.”
That’s bad news if your WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez because he’s hoping that Mayweather Jr. will look his way and decide he has to get a fight with him in the near future because of how big the fight would be and how much money it would make. But Mayweather is saying he can choose whoever he pleases and fans will either watch it or won’t and he doesn’t seem worried at all about it.
At this point Mayweather Jr. has had the golden touch. Every PPV fight he’s had in the last five years has been big. There haven’t been any bombs because fans have been interested in seeing him fight no matter who the opponent is. I don’t expect the Mayweather-Guerrero to do poorly either. Guerrero will attract enough Mexican fans to help make the fight a success, and of course Mayweather will draw a ton of people on his own.
If your Manny Pacquiao or Canelo, it can’t be good for you that Mayweather is able to still bring in huge PPV numbers even when not facing well known fighters because it means he doesn’t those guys to make big bank. He can choose the guys he wants and he doesn’t need to bend over backwards to get a fight with one of those guys.
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