Mayweather-Maidana PPV numbers in 800-900 K range, according to Rafael’s sources

mayweather9933By Allan Fox: Dan Rafael of ESPN says that his sources in the boxing industry tell him that the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Marcos Maidana fight brought in just 800,000 to 900,000 pay-per-view buys on Showtime PPV this month. The numbers still haven’t been officially released by Showtime, and Arum believes this could be a sign that the fight failed to bring in crazy numbers like they were obviously hoping it would be.

Golden Boy Promotions did their part in trying to hit it out of the park by adding Adrien Broner and Amir Khan to the undercard of the Mayweather-Maidana fight card. It was thought that having those two fighters on the card would mean that they could expect over 1 million buys at the minimum.

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Mayweather should forget about Maidana rematch

floyd8822By Chris Williams: WBA/WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr’s recent win over Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KO’s) was a costly one for him, because he suffered a cut over his right eye after a head clash early in the fight. The cut will take time to heal, and there’s a good chance that it’ll open up as soon as Mayweather takes a hard shot on that eye in his next fight in September.

Mayweather’s father thinks it’s just not worth it for him to fight Maidana again because of the fouling that he might do. Floyd Sr. feels that Maidana plays it too rough when he fights, and it’s not worth the trouble to fight him because of the way he bends the rules.

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Hatton thinks Mayweather overlooked Maidana

hatton4555By Allan Fox: Ricky Hatton believes that Floyd Mayweather Jr. may have overlooked Marcos Maidana and that was one of the reasons why Mayweather failed to perform at his usual high level. Hatton thinks that Mayweather might be having a hard time getting motivated for his opponents because he’s been at the top for so long, and because he’s beaten so many good fighters in the past.

It’s possible that Mayweather overlooked Maidana, because if he was generally concerned about whether he could beat him or not, he wouldn’t have fought in a stationary manner the way he did. Mayweather fought with his back against the ropes in many rounds, and that’s not the way he fought against Canelo, Robert Guerrero and Miguel Cotto.

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Father Time knocking on Floyd’s door?

may023By T.B: You may have missed him but Father Time [FT] was sitting ring side at the May 3rd fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. (46-0, 26 KO’s) and Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KO’s) at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada and I bet you can guess who he was there to see. They say Father Time comes to visit everyone at some point in our lives and he mostly shows up when we least expect him. Floyd Mayweather Jr got his first visit from FT right around the time Showtime’s “All Access” started documenting his every move for his up coming Maidana fight.

The fans who did tune into All Access witnessed the same tired act they saw on both the Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Robert Guerrero All Access episodes. Fans got to see Floyd’s houses, cars, woman, and friends, all of which has been shown over and over year after year.

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No Mayweather-Maidana PPV numbers, says Showtime’s Espinoza

may101By Chris Williams: In the last couple of days there’s been rumors that the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Marcos Maidana fought drew between 800,000 and 900,000 pay-per-view buys on Showtime. If those numbers turned out to be true, it would be a very disappointing number for the fight given Mayweather’s tremendous popularity, and the fight card having the highly popular Adrien Broner and Amir Khan on the undercard. Showtime’s head of Sports Stephen Espinoza says that rumors are totally false, and the the PPV numbers for the fight are still be tabulated.

“No numbers yet,” Espinoza said to thesweetscience. “Cable hasn’t even reported yet. Any numbers floating are are pure speculation.”

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Mayweather should give Maidana rematch only if there’s no big fights out there

floyd777771By Chris Williams: In watching the replay of Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Marcos Maidana last night, it’s clear that Maidana couldn’t deal with Mayweather even with him fighting his game and giving him a major handicap by fighting Adrien Broner’s same fight that he used against Maidana last December. While the judges scored the Mayweather-Maidana fight close in giving Mayweather a 12 round majority decision by the scores of 116-112, 117-111 and 114-114, it’s clear that Mayweather would win ever round in a rematch with Maidana by fighting his normal fight.

It would be like the second fight between Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran where Duran ended up quitting. Maidana probably wouldn’t quit, but he’d end up getting clowned the same way that Duran was by Leonard in that fight. That’s why I think that Mayweather should only take the Maidana fight if he has nothing else available for him to fight as far as big named opponents that the boxing public wants to see.

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Mayweather-Maidana & Khan-Collazo replay tonight on Showtime at 9:30 pm

may55(Photo credit: Tom Casino/Showtime) By Chris Williams: Tonight boxing fans will get the opportunity to see the replay of Floyd Mayweather Jr. (46-0, 26 KO’s) vs. Marcos Maidana (35-4,31 KO’s) on regular Showtime at 9:30 pm ET/PT from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Fans will also get to see the co-feature fight between Amir Khan (29-3, 19 KO’s) and Luis Collazo (35-6, 18 KO’s). Following the Showtime Championship premiere, Showtime will televise All Access: Mayweather vs. Maidana – Epilogue. This is the final episode of the Mayweather-Maidana All Access series, and it’ll go into the aftermath of their exciting fight last Saturday night.

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Mayweather’s “plan for success” nearly backfires against Maidana

1-06Over the past 10 years or so Floyd Mayweather Jr (46-0, 26 KO’s)has followed a basic “plan for success”. This plan is made up of  4 easy steps and if followed he will surly get the win he so desperately wants.

Step one is to find a fighter who is coming off the best victory of his career. But, this can’t be any ordinary fighter, no this fighter must also be of Mexican descent. To put it in even simpler terms this fighter just needs a Spanish last name. (Robert Guerrero, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, Miguel Cotto, Marcos Maidana ….you get the picture).

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Mayweather: Did he really struggle on the weekend?

floyd8888By Mo Hassan: As we all saw on Saturday, Marcos Maidana looked like he may had worked out the may Vinci code until Floyd Mayweather Jr. adjusted his style to take the last few rounds, but was this all part of the Mayweather Master plan.

After watching the Weekends events numerous times I could see there was some punches thrown from Maidana which Mayweather could have easily dodged but choose not to. But why? Was we starting to see the decline of the defence that Mayweather had worked so hard to build up or was this all part of the plan to make the fight more interesting to casual boxing fans so they crave a rematch?

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