A little unusual, but boxing's schedule is much stronger than MMA's for the next two months. Saturday's Super Flyweight extravaganza,
GGG-Canelo, WBSS and a bunch of other good fights like Linares-Campbell, Parker-Fury and possibly Joshua-Pulev on Oct 28. MMA is a little lean until the excellent UFC 217.

I like quite a few fights on 215 and Ferguson-Lee could be awesome, but yeah will not be big sellers.

GGG/canelo won't do over 200k buys

Yes it will.

Canelo-Chavez Jr did 1mm buys. Canelo-GGG is maybe, maybe less of a draw for Mexican-Americans*, but a much much bigger draw for everyone else.

BTW, the numbers for Canelo-Chavez Jr were incredible considering it was a catchweight mismatch between two guys who don't speak English!

*Anyone here know enough to chime in? For all I know Canelo-JCCJr caught the Mexican-American zeitgest and there's much less interest in Canelo-GGG (who has previously put up Mighty Mouse PPV numbers).

oh so it's "boxing/fighting" now huh?

Could be a hangover from May Mac. Even though people were satisfied I don't think it made too many new boxing fans. I think this will be a good gauge of boxing's overall health. I'm not as optimistic as PG girl, but we'll see.

PG,

I'm kinda embarrassed that I bought Mayweather-McGregor but might not buy GGG-Canelo.

At least we've clarified boxing isn't fighting...

Three of the last three or four fights were knockouts irrc and it was still very boring.

The only thing more boring than boxing is listening to people talking about boxing

These threads used to be about mma, I miss that

I can meet in the middle though, kickboxing is pretty cool

I've been to several live events, and it's pretty unreal the sounds of people getting struck. So much power

speaking of mma, i just started getting caught up on the event a cpl nights ago and holy ****, mairbek taisumov is a beast. that was an incredible KO

Rep,

FYI you are allowed (and encouraged!) to express more than one thought per post.

sometimes i have a second thought after i press the send/submit button, and its easier to just type it in the open box for a new post than to press the edit button and then move the cursor or amend a sentence to join the thoughts together, especially when i'm on my phone

Canelo is boxing' s biggest draw. This will do between 1-1.5M buys

jesus christ, bahadurzada vs wilkinson had to be one of the latest stoppages ive seen in a long ****ing time

I'm not sure what this means. I said it will definitely do more than 200k - do you disagree? I think it will do 600k-1.5mm buys, most likely in the middle of that range.

That is embarrassing but I presume you had a bunch of friends round for Mayweather-McGregor and would struggle to get such a crowd for GGG-Canelo? If you genuinely were more interested in the former than the latter then yeah that's pretty embarrassing.

Diablo - does San Francisco have a large Mexican born population? Watching the fight in a pub where most people speak Spanish as their first language (and maybe they ordered the Spanish language PPV which is a thing) would be very very fun. It's Mexican independence day too which is a bigger deal to Mexican than Cinco.

Sadly, I'm quite positive you're in the majority, minus the embarrassment.
Serious question ElD: Why not? Does the matchup not appeal to you at all?

Cannot wait for the 16th....

I'm working that night so I plan on bringing in the laptop and using the phone as a hot spot.

Whatever it takes.

Definitely the vast majority of casual boxing fans i knew were calling MayMac a sideshow while touting GGG/Canelo as the real biggest fight this year. I would guess 100% of them bought/watched MayMac, and are on the fence about paying for the GGG PPV....

Rich,

It's the most interesting/relevant/significant boxing matchup in a long time, and one I thought wouldn't happen for a while longer.

However, while M-M was a farce, it was a spectacle that was going to be discussed and analyzed on this forum, on espn, with friends, etc during and immediately after the fight. I wanted to be part of that.

GGG-Canelo will get a little discussion there, a segment on espn, nothing in mainstream news, nothing from people who aren't boxing fans. So I just don't feel nearly as compelled to buy the fight vs just watching highlights right after and the rebroadcast on showtime (edit: oops, hbo apparently, thx pg) the week after. Actually, that might end up making my mind up - whether or not they're showing it on cable the weekend after.

We'll see, good chance I still end up deciding to get it.

Diablo - HBO always rebroadcast PPVs the next week. They're doing so before Jorge Linares v. Campbell, a very decent 135 scrap.

And to think I voted for you.