Canelo Alvarez, the Mexican boxer, has insisted that he will fight Miguel Cotto on Cinco de Mayo in May 2015, which is a date that top Pay-Per-View draw Floyd Mayweather prefers.
Alvarez, whose fights appear on HBO has stressed he'll fight on the date regardless of what Mayweather, who fights on Showtime, is doing.
Despite the claims, Mayweather has suggested that he won’t back down from Alvarez, whom he defeated in 2013.
Mayweather has said he will draw a larger audience than Alvarez-Cotto.
“If they feel like they can compete, well then let’s see,” Mayweather said, according to FightHype.com. “When you’re talking boxing, you’re talking Mayweather, man. We need to take Canelo’s last fight and look at his pay-per-view numbers and take Cotto’s last fight and look at his pay-per-view numbers, put ‘em together and see who done better numbers. And see what they charge for the fight also.”
According to BoxingNews24, Cotto brought in 300,000 PPV buys in his fight against Sergio Martinez while Alvarez brought in 300,000 PPV buys in his last to fights.
However, Mayweather fights usually draw more than double or even triple that. His fight with Alvarez drew around 2 million PPV buys.
