re: Older guys and boxing fans

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Y.A. Tittle
The days of the average Joe getting up for 'big fights' has long since sailed.

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yep

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Al Haymon is working on bringing boxing back to network and cable. He already struck a deal with NBC. Plus he has CBS, Spike TV and other rumored channels. Supposedly he wants to drive premium channels and PPV out of the sport

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This would be good. I was a HUGE boxing fan back in the day, but I can't tell you the last time I've seen a marquee fighter on TV. I'm just not going to drop 50 bucks (or whatever it costs now) on guys I've never seen, for a fight that might last less than 3 minutes potentially. Just won't.

Whatever the plan is, we need fights on TV. Not drama, not hype, but fights. You need to see the actual boxers a few times, and then their own skill becomes the hype: I couldn't have cared less what Leonard or Hearns said about each other (for example), but I wanted to see Sugar Ray against the Hitman. Because I already knew, from watching, that those were two bad men in the ring.

Or Tyson- we saw him on ESPN and/or the networks a number of times coming up, and that's when he became known as such a beast. It was okay to go PPV for some title fights once he was already established, but we got to see him first.

As to the OP- Mayweather vs Pacchio would be the biggest fight since De La Hoya vs Trinidad, but not bigger. And it wouldn't make top ten in anything other than money; plenty of lesser grossing fights would be more remembered.