Mayweather vs Marquez To Be Shown in Movie Theaters

[hotshoes]

its been done before

[gopi11]

how are people taking shots at floyd because of this? yall need to get a life. this is big news and could possible bring a wider market to fans. imagine being in the theathers with over 100 other fans in the crowd. it be like being at the fight with the boos and oohs and ahhs. and look who they choose to try it out on Mr Money Mayweather himself. not paquiao or oscar.

id rather spend 10 bucks and watch on a 300 foot screen with surround sound than at home on my 42 inch flat screen or my family house with a 72 inch.
i cant wait for this to happen

LMAO!!! GTFOutta here!

Pacquiao has been doing this since his first fight with Erik Morales back in 05! Movie theaters in the Philippines charged $12 to $15 a head for every Pacquiao fight on the big screen. A couple of hundred packed movie houses every time, and do you know how huge movie houses are in the Philippines? Last time I was there 6 years ago, there's still some old school theaters there who has 2000 sitting capacity.

[gopi11]

Salvaging the Mayweather/Marquez contest has become a full time job unto itself. Reviving 'closed circuit' telecasts at movie theaters is a brilliant concept if prices can be kept below $20. I recall seeing Pepino Cuevas Vs. Tommy Hearns at The Westchester County Center in NY in 1980. The price tag was $15 for that one round KO and two thousand plus fans jammed the arena.
I was also present at most of the Ali and Leonard theater broadcasts and also witnessed a few displayed on a huge four sided screen which hovered at Madison Square Garden. The Garden would host a live card and then present the telecast as the main event. Holmes/Cooney was promoted by MSG in this format and it sold out swiftly. Standing room only tickets to the event were also sold out. By the time Leonard /Hagler came about, prices had jumped to around $30.
HBO broke sacred ground by televising 'The Thrilla In Manilla ' but closed circuit remained an option for years thereafter.
Should the Money/Marquez battle do well, we can anticipate future fistic events continued in this fashion. It could serve well as a night out, allowing strapped fans to even eat out prior to the event with the dollars they will save. Hell. You could even take the wife along! Should Floyd and Manny conquer their foes, their promoters would probably request a PPV ticket of $59.99.That would signal the need to continue a less expensive trend of viewing if Boxing is to bring new fans to the fold, especially in this difficult economy. Peace To All.

Yes, this "Save the Mayweather/Marquez fight" movement has taken a life of its own. I really want this fight to be a huge success, not for Floyd's sake, but for the sake of the "Sick man" of all sports, which is boxing right now...

[gopi11]

i can see already see how it's going to be. the fights starts getting good, one guy accidentally yells out a racial slur in the heat of the moment, then one guy goes "what da fuck did you just say?" and then all hell breaks loose with blood covered popcorn flying everywhere.

Yeeeww! I hate popcorn with catsup!

LMAO!!!

[gopi11]

How can you not like this fight?? Two of the best in boxing. You think Marquez will not make this a fight? Come on now this is Marquez, he is a warrior and we know Mayweathers ego is getting touched by Pac Man. This is going to be a great fight fool...

I don't know man, since Marquez' best win was against Juan Diaz, who look nothing special against Paulie a couple of days ago, it looks more and more like a mismatch. I also read this Nacho interview today:




BERISTAIN WORRIED ABOUT MARQUEZ'S LACK OF SPEED


In a recent interview with the Mexican media, legendary trainer Nacho Beristain said that Juan Manuel Marquez is not 100 percent ready for his upcoming fight with five division world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. Beristain says Marquez is too slow at the higher weight and that he is not happy because the work they have been doing is not working.

"Juan Manuel is very strong, he looks like a natural welterweight, but it worries me a lot that we can't get to the speed level that we are looking for us to be at ease, we can't compete with a fighter of the quality of Floyd Mayweather with that ****ing lack of speed. The sparring partners are not a problem, it is the work we did to increase the muscle. He is tense and as I said he is very strong and buffed, but he has no speed at this point and that is because the weight lifting he did was excessive. Is like a soccer player after working with weights they are strong but they lack the speed and the rhythm to compete. That is the way Juan Manuel is right now I am desperate at this point. But there is still time to get him speed but the problem is that the weight lifting is giving us a hard time." said Nacho who know Juan Manuel extremely well.

If that is true, then Marquez has slim chances to upset "Money" Mayweather and search for the third Manny Pacquiao clash, as we all know Marquez has gone up to lightweight and now to welterweight to chase Pacquiao and make a trilogy of their epic battles.

[gopi11]

A.K.A "We are not making our predicted ppv numbers.We need all the crowds we can get!"

That's a great camouflage for any future questions about how many ppv buys they got!

[zzat]

**** I said:

Save the fight? You're just as bad as Bob Arum. You don't seem to have any wisdom at all. Hope your kids are not like you.

[gopi11]

Save the fight? You're just as bad as Bob Arum. You don't seem to have any wisdom at all. Hope your kids are not like you.

wtf did I said? I can't seem to find my post you quoted on.

... and NO, I'm full of wisdom, which I couldn't say the same for you. You can't even quote someone right...

[zzat]

Blah Blah 4king Blah...

Exactly my point, you’re a dumb a$$ mother4ker. You don't even know wtf happened to you quote. I'm not wasting anymore time on you. In 6 months, when you get what happened, Shout.

[formarkiz]

This has been implemented in the Philippines since 2007 on all Pac fights

yeah, but it's free in the phillipines aka generating no revenue so its irrelevant.