Who's the real Man: Golden Boy vs. Pretty Boy

Encanto · Posted: 10 May 2007 03:38 PM Post subject:

It can be said that De La Hoya beat up on all Mexican fighters (ruelas, paez, chicanito, miguel a. gonzalez, yory boy, chavez, vargas, etc...and other latinos mayorga, leija, molina, rivera,) but he never beat the Mosleys, Trinidads, Hopkins, & Mayweathers of the sport, ....No wonder Mayweather trained him...to live up to the 'Mexican Assasin' name. And maybe this is why many Mexicans dont like De La Hoya. Not that it matters to him, he made around 50 mil this fight. De La Hoya truly Golden indeed.

Interesting thing to notice at this fight, De La Hoya the Mexican-American and being 5 de Mayo comes in wearing a red robe resembling no Mexican pride, while Mayweather wore the sombrero and some nice Mexican-colored leathered shorts. A Cinco de Mayweather night.

chuco boy · Posted: 10 May 2007 07:56 PM Post subject: Golden Boy

He only celebrates the 16th of September-the real independence day. He considers Cinco de Mayo a "gringo" type holiday.

Encanto · Posted: 11 May 2007 09:43 AM Post subject:

Floyd-Oscar: 2.15 million buys!
PPV telecast sets all time record
HBO Sports reported today that 2.15 million pay-per-view buys and $120 million in pay-per-view revenue was generated from last Saturday’s mega fight showdown featuring Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

and boxing is dying, yeah right! grossly filthy rich fight.

sakurob · Posted: 11 May 2007 11:25 AM Post subject:

For decades, boxing was all about one fight. Let me make this one fight and as much money as I can and we'll worry about the other stuff later. There was no long-term planning or long-term thinking. Mixed Martial Arts promotions build a brand that would eventually enhance the matchups of the fights and make them bigger. The live gate, the pay-per-view broadcast, merchandise sales, DVD sales, Internet ¦ it all works together.

Out of those 120 million how much went to the purse of Oscar and Mayweather and how much was invested back into boxing or the actual fighters?????? Get my drift son………..

Now rebut that anyone please.

You know what (boxing analyst) Max Kellerman says ? He says that if you take four street corners, and on one they are playing baseball, on another they are playing basketball and on the other, street hockey. On the fourth corner, a fight breaks out. Where does the crowd go?
They all go to the fight.

Boxing isn't dying in that sense but it will be surpassed by MMA I'm certain of that.

Mars · Posted: 11 May 2007 12:17 PM Post subject:

MMA will never get 2.15 buys on one pay-per-view at 55 bucks a pop. NEVER.

The End.

sakurob · Posted: 11 May 2007 12:35 PM Post subject:

I didn't "tap" yet......... Laughing

Encanto · Posted: 11 May 2007 02:34 PM Post subject:

[quote="sakurob"]For decades, boxing was all about one fight. Let me make this one fight and as much money as I can and we'll worry about the other stuff later. There was no long-term planning or long-term thinking. Mixed Martial Arts promotions build a brand that would eventually enhance the matchups of the fights and make them bigger. The live gate, the pay-per-view broadcast, merchandise sales, DVD sales, Internet ¦ it all works together.

Out of those 120 million how much went to the purse of Oscar and Mayweather and how much was invested back into boxing or the actual fighters?????? Get my drift son………..

Now rebut that anyone please.

You know what (boxing analyst) Max Kellerman says ? He says that if you take four street corners, and on one they are playing baseball, on another they are playing basketball and on the other, street hockey. On the fourth corner, a fight breaks out. Where does the crowd go?
They all go to the fight.

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on your first point, thats where Golden Boy Promotions comes in, and a fight breaks out at the fourth corner, the crowd goes overthere. that's why 2.1 mil peeps bought the fight last saturday. good point.

sakurob · Posted: 14 May 2007 07:51 PM Post subject:

this taken from a boxing website giving ufc and mixed martial arts in general an honest look.

"Time to let down your guard and stop being such a curmudgeon."

http://www.thesweetscience.com/boxing-article/2013/boxing-ufc/ Laughing

Encanto · Posted: 15 May 2007 10:20 AM Post subject:

No one is hating MMA here, its a Floyd/Oscar thread afterall. Who's the hater?

sakurob · Posted: 16 May 2007 04:59 AM Post subject:

I knew I'd get flamed for posting that stuff, but it keeps the thread going Laughing