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拳赛付费点播数(PPV)将决定梅威瑟的命运 / PAY PER VIEW NUMBERS WILL DECIDE MAYWEATHER'S FATE By T. Chin-Te PhilBoxing.com Tue, 16 Sep 2014  弗洛伊德-梅威瑟(Floyd Mayweather Jr),这位在上周末的复赛中轻易地战胜马科斯-麦达纳的拳手是否将会与菲律宾巨星曼尼?帕奎奥进行下一场比赛,还是选择另一个对手或是退休,这一切很有可能将视付费点播上周六的比赛的人数来决定。 梅威瑟,2007年5月与奥斯卡?德?拉?霍亚的一场比赛获得了240万的点播量,使其成为PPV最高记录购买保持者;2013年9月梅威瑟与苏尔-阿瓦雷兹之间的比赛,获得了最高历史票房收入近2亿美元,收入积累已达到4.2亿美元。这次,梅威瑟将急于知道点播数量。 ?我只能祝福我们取得好的成绩。我要感谢大家付费收看了比赛。?梅威瑟在比赛一结束就这样告诉记者。 你看,梅威瑟,谁把他的名字从?漂亮?改成 ?钱?,第一是商人,第二是高手。他下一个对手是谁总是由商业方面的事说了算,或者他是否还会战斗。梅威瑟将以最小的风险和报酬最高的继续挑选对手,但看起来他不能继续这样做,他好像选择的空间不大。 去年,梅威瑟与Showtime电视网签署了一个6场比赛2亿美元的合同,这是拳击运动史上金额最高的一份合同。然而,第一场比赛2013年五月与墨西哥裔美国人罗伯特格雷罗的比赛据称PPV点播人数为85万, 表现远低于预期。Showtime,金童李察舍费尔和梅威瑟被迫邀请极受欢迎的墨西哥拳手苏尔-阿瓦雷兹在第二场比赛中与梅威瑟较量,以确保合同不会再次受到损失。阿瓦雷兹应该被保留为日后当梅威瑟的比赛需要达到高热时出现。第三场与马科斯-麦达纳的比赛PPV数字又一次差强人意,预计点播数仅为85万,远低于梅威瑟的标准。由于缺乏可行的选择,并且因为梅威瑟总是拒绝让比赛变得像人们希望的具有娱乐性,梅威瑟选择与麦达纳进行再一次较量,希望麦达纳猛烈的右拳能有助于重赛的PPV销售量。 然而,星期六的比赛后,几个指标显示PPV点播者将大大低于第一场比赛。 米高梅未满座。拳迷们可能开始厌倦了梅威瑟,不再是非常有兴趣看他打。 梅威瑟与麦达纳比赛的赔率远低于预期。一个明确的迹象再次表明,梅威瑟的神秘已经减弱。 在梅威瑟发表了关于Rice的评论后,妇女团体以及主流刊物如时代周刊和ESPN报道呼吁抵制梅威瑟与麦达纳的比赛。 如果PPV数量将达到100万或更多,梅威瑟将可以像往常一样在一瞬间选择阿米尔?可汗成为他的下个对手。如果和第一战一样接近85万,梅威瑟也许需要与Showtime商议使阿米尔?可汗成为他的下个对手。然而,如果PPV的数字是70万或更少,那么梅威瑟可能使自己陷入困境。结果要么他与曼尼-帕奎奥,这个他躲避已久的拳手打?要么他可能会选择退休。 除了咬人剧,比赛本身毫无精彩可言,梅威瑟选择跑步而不是混合战,这只会影响到梅威瑟下一场比赛的门票销售。梅威瑟站在场上接受挑战的日子已一去不复返,就像在2010年5月的比赛中,他被莫斯利在第二轮以一记右钩拳打得步履蹒跚。在周六的战斗中,梅威瑟试图快速处理麦达纳,速战速决风险小并且他视健康高于一切。也许,在一场无聊比赛中打满十二回合将是梅威瑟留给我们的最后印像。 Showtime的汤姆格雷曾经问梅威瑟是否打算在打完麦达纳后马上与帕奎奥打,现在汤姆格雷可能从Showtime高管处接到军令状,了解到与帕奎奥之战是让Showtime对梅威瑟的投资收到回报唯一方法。 然而,如果PPV点播数字失败了,梅威瑟退役可能是最好的商业决策。?我想被称为拳击运动史上最聪明的商人,而不仅仅是最好的拳手。?梅威瑟在与麦达纳热身赛时这样告诉mlive.com的戴维梅奥。 好吧,如果你不想再欺骗大众,最好收拾东西离开。 ----- 
Mayweather (C) wins against Maidana last Saturday in Las Vegas. PAY PER VIEW NUMBERS WILL DECIDE MAYWEATHER'S FATE By T. Chin-Te Whether or not Floyd Mayweather Jr ? who handily won his rematch against Marcos Maidana over the weekend ? fight Filipino superstar Manny Pacquiao for his next fight, pick another opponent or retire, will most likely be dictated by the result of the pay per view buys of last Saturday's fight. Mayweather, who holds the record of the highest number of PPV buys (vs Oscar de la Hoya, May 2007) of 2.4 million and the highest grossing fight in the history (vs Canelo Alvarez, Sep 2013) of almost $200 million, and whose accumulated ring income has reached $420 million, will be anxious to know the pay per view numbers as they come in. ?I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that we did good numbers. I want to thank everybody that tuned in and bought on pay-per-view,? Mayweather told a reporter right after the fight. You see, Mayweather, who changed his moniker to 'Money' from 'Pretty', is a businessman first, fighter second. The business side of things always dictate who he's gonna fight next, or if he ever fight at all. Mayweather will keep on picking opponents with the least risk and the highest reward ? but looks like he won't be able to continue doing this and apparently he has driven himself into a corner. Mayweather signed a 6-fight $200 million contract with Showtime last year, the richest in the history of the sport. The first fight however, against Mexican-American Robert Guerrero in May 2013 with a reported PPV buys of 850,000, performed well below expectations. Showtime, Golden Boy's Richard Schaefer and Mayweather were forced to call in highly popular Mexican star Canelo Alvarez to fight Mayweather in the second fight to ensure the contract will not entail another 'loss'. Alvarez should have been reserved for a later date when the demand for a Mayweather fight would have reached fever high. The third fight ? against Marcos Maidana ? again underperformed in PPV with an estimated number of buys to be only 850,000 well below Mayweather standard. Because of lack of viable options and because Mayweather always refused to entertain the fight that people want, he choose to rematch with Maidana, hoping Maidana's looping overhand rights that made the first contest closer would translate into PPV sales in the second time around. After Saturday's fight however, several indicators point out that the PPV buys would be considerably lower than the first one. - MGM Grand was not sold out. Fans probably are starting to get tired of Mayweather and are no longer highly interested to see him fight. - Betting on the Mayweather-Maidana fight was well below expectation. Again, a clear indication that the Mayweather mystique has waned. - After Mayweather's Rice comments, women's groups as well as major publications like TIME and ESPN ran stories calling for a boycott on the Mayweather-Maidana fight. If the PPV numbers will be at 1M or more, it will be business as usual for Mayweather and he could select Amir Khan to be his next opponent in a heartbeat. If it will be in the vicinity with his first fight with Maidana of around 850,000, Mayweather may try to negotiate with Showtime to have Khan as his next opponent. If however the PPV numbers will be around 700,000 or less, then Mayweather may have driven himself into a corner. It will be either fighting Manny Pacquiao ? the fight he had been avoiding for so long ? or he may opt to retire. Except for the biting 'drama', the fight itself totally lacks excitement as Mayweather opted to run and clinch instead of mixing it up which would only hurt ticket sales on Mayweather's next fight. Gone are the days when Mayweather stood his ground when challenged ? like when he was staggered by Mosley with a right hook in the second round of their May 2010 fight. Mayweather tried to mix it up with Maidana briefly in Saturday's fight but abandoned it immediately risking very little and put premium on his health above all. Running the entire 12th round in a boring contest may be the last images we're going to see of Mayweather. Showtime's Tom Gray, who asked Mayweather right after the fight if he's going to fight Pacquiao next, may have marching orders from Showtime executives specifically ask that question knowing that a Pacquiao fight is the only way Showtime will get a return of investment of the Mayweather contract. Mayweather however, if last Saturday's PPV numbers fail him, may choose retirement as the best business decision considering he always put great importance on his health. "I want to be known as being one of the smartest businessmen that came through the sport of boxing, not just the best fighter," Mayweather told David Mayo of MLive.com in the runup to the Maidana fight. Oh well, if you can no longer sell snake oil, better pack up your things and leave. Click here to view a list of other articles written by T. Chin-Te.  |
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