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Originally Posted by kane
That was a huge superfight that has been a long time in the making. I saw that the recent Cotto-Canelo fight did about 900K buys which is also good, but many other PPV fights are averaging around 150K buys.
It just seems like 15-20 years ago we heard about boxing and boxing stars all the time. Now we only hear about them if it is a superfight or some kind of controversy. Boxing seems to have fallen out of the public conscious.
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think back... 20 years ago, we didn't have the web. we didn't have 500 cable channels. we didn't have everything entertainment wise at our fingertips. We didn't have extreme sports or even full contact fighting (UFC started in 93). The world has changed. Today, we don't have Mike Tyson's. For me, i see only Mexicans boxing where i live boxing and I live in a major city. If its someone that isn't Mexican, its because they want to improve their boxing for Muay Thai or MMA. But in terms of money, there is still no close second to what boxing is worth and what fighters get paid.