Dana White on going head to head with Mayweather: Its on!
Floyd
Mayweather will be fighting Juan Manuel Marquez on September 19, the same day
of a UFC event in
Dallas. The two shows will compete with each other
and many wonder which will have a bigger audience. According to the UFC website, the headliner
of their event appears to be someone named M. Swick vs. M. Kampmann. Does anyone outside of the hardcore UFC fan even know these guys?! White admits that Mayweather can “sell a
fight”. When HBO’s 24/7 starts, you can
bet Mayweather's fight will begin to do very well at the box office. Read on for more of what he said…
He goes on
to claim that Pacquiao is a “Superstar” while Floyd is not. Truth is they are both superstars. Keep in mind that De La Hoya vs Mayweather
out sold De La Hoya vs Pacquiao by a wide margin and the same is true when
comparing Mayweather and Pacquiao's fights with Ricky Hatton.
White
makes a decent point that the boxing
undercards may not be so great, but that just emphasizes how popular the main
event fighters are. UFC 100 had to be
stacked to the rim with their most popular guys, and it still didn’t sell more
PPV than Pacquiao vs Hatton in the
US
and
UK.
Lastley he
is completely inconsistent when he says “boxing is in trouble” while at the
same time says “big fights sell”. So
which one is it? Is boxing in trouble or
do big fights sell? We will find out Sep 19th and in November when
Pacquiao takes on Cotto.
And he's gunna get killed in the ratings if he goes PPV. Come on dana, put that shit on PPV pussy. My guess is he goes with standard cable. How you gunna compete with Floyd/JMM, on Mexican Independance weekend no less, with Chris John/Rocky Juarez II and Zab on the card?
Dana White is an asshole, but the guy is an AMAZING promoter. Boxing promoters should take some lessons from this guy. I think boxing is better than MMA in every category except this one. Dana is the czar, and he makes VERY few mistakes, and his bank account show it. The guy can sell a fight, , e can sell his league, he can run a show, and he is a shrewd businessman. If Dana White retired, MMA would be dead in two years. Think about it, no other MMA league is competing, no other MMA league is doing a very good job of keeping their heads above water, but Dana has a license to print his own money.
its true that he does a good job w UFC, but how can he say boxing is dead when he also says that he was scared sh*tless to go up against De La Hoya.
the mistake he makes is he promotes the UFC well, but doesn't promote his fighters well. He has ZERO superstars like floyd, manny, delahoya...dont give me Lesnar cuz he was popular through the WWE.
and Gun Ru makes a good point, Juarez vs John is a pretty good scrap.
yh alot does make sense i must agree. frank warrens cards are good for british fight fans shud put sum young up and comin fighters on in serouis fights. but still think floyd will kill dana on the ppv numbers but may take a few off of the number.
Savannah Marshall (R) of England celebrates following her win against Elena Vystropova (C) of Azerbaijan during their middleweight 75kg final bout at the Women's World Boxing Championships in Qinhuangdao on May 19, 2012. Eight places in the three Olympic weight categories, flyweight, lightweight and middleweight, are up for grabs at the world championships, with another four awarded to small and developing countries. Marshall won 17:15. AFP PHOTO / Ed JonesEd Jones/AFP/GettyImages
