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21st June 2017
12:29pm BST

"My prediction is no. I predicted almost from the first time that this got discussed. I said I thought it was like 3.75-4.25 million PPV, just below the record."His reasoning, firstly the Pacquiao fight had years and years of hype building it up, whereas this one came together pretty quickly in comparison. Also, that fight was really hyped up to be an exceptional display of the fistic arts by boxing writers, whereas they're portraying this one as a squash match in favour of the undefeated pugilist.
"The reason why I don't think it breaks it is this: Mayweather-Pacquaio, when that was being negotiated over all those years, almost every boxing writer, if they wrote about it, said, 'It's going to be a great fight. It's the two best fighters in the world, the two best welterweights in the world.' It just got that positive reinforcement for so long." "This fight's not going to have that. Number one, it didn't have that lengthy build-up, but the build-up it has, as I mentioned earlier, is that Floyd's going to kill Conor. So I think there's some percentage of people that will stay away because of that. As a result, I don't think it hits the record."He's not wrong about the coverage, but that World Tour and all those press conferences could be the X factor that propels McGregor to the top of the all-time PPV table alongside Mayweather.
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