I was MUCH less impressed than Lamps, Max and the ****

[Jim Jeffries]

Well you heard the pre-fight statements about why Calzaghe should not feel the need to fight in the U.S. He's filling 50,000 seats in England! Evidently they were focused on it pretty hard.

I have no idea why anyone argues with this Dios clown. He showed more ignorance than usual in this thread.

[deevel79]

Call it $US125-150 weighted average ticket price.

That's gate revenue of $7 million.

Whoop-de-doo

What the hell do u care about how much the fight pulled in? Fact of the matter is, Joe brought the fight to a bigger Kessler, and won in an impressive fashion. Floyd ran from a bigger Baldomir and won in a boooooring fashion.

Kessler >>> Baldomir.

[squealpiggy]

How about the decision over Castillo?

That's one too...

[GrizzleBoy]

http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=145787

Click here for a discussion about Calzaghe/Kessler and the original topic, not:
PPV's
Seat filling
Floyd Mayweather
Ricky Hatton
Mindless insults
Anything else pointlessly off-topic

[DIOS DOMINICANO]

Not really the point. A mention was made that the fight drew a live gate in excess of 50,000 people which is an astonishing live crowd for a fight in this day and age. This was disparaged by "Brandish" (which I suspect is a nom-de-plume) who insinuated that the only reason it attracted so many people was because the tickets were sold at a knockdown price. My motivation for explaining the ticket prices was to blast that notion into pieces. A lot of people paid a reasonably large sum of money to watch the fight, maybe not astronomical sums of money but a reasonable amount on a night out.

I would also like to point out that the fight started after 1am in the UK. And still drew 50,000.

Are you going to demean those live figures by talking about pay-per-views again?

Again,

there is a marked difference in business practices. In the US, the objective of a big fighter is not to maximize the gate.

Casino-city arenas are small, and the best seats are 'comped' to 'whales' and celebs. Big-name fighters rely on the PPV revenues.

I'm not belittling the 50K. But you should not use that as some sort of benchmark to measure marketability vs a Yank fighter.

[Mozza]

What the hell do u care about how much the fight pulled in? Fact of the matter is, Joe brought the fight to a bigger Kessler, and won in an impressive fashion. Floyd ran from a bigger Baldomir and won in a boooooring fashion.

Kessler >>> Baldomir.

Please don't mention those two fighters in the same sentence again. Kessler is streets ahead of the Argentine.

[DIOS DOMINICANO]

What the hell do u care about how much the fight pulled in? Fact of the matter is, Joe brought the fight to a bigger Kessler, and won in an impressive fashion. Floyd ran from a bigger Baldomir and won in a boooooring fashion.

Kessler >>> Baldomir.

Joe got a W.
Floyd got a W.
Floyd made MUCH more $.
Floyd got hit less.

There is a certain contingent who would question the wisdom of your position.

[revs1227]

I agree cal-slappy didn't impress me at all. just slappiong kessler who has poor footwork and just looked sloppy all around. You could tell kessler has only fought in europe he didn't seem well schooled in the fine arts. couldn't even pivot of the back foot.

floyd gets scolded by the **** steward and called a "good" fighter for beating oscar but joe is "special" for beating a pedestrian champion like kessler

wow!
who agrees there both haters???????????
i do
what afreat figtn how can u see n e less ?
floyd boys
smh!!! hard

[DIOS DOMINICANO]

Please don't mention those two fighters in the same sentence again. Kessler is streets ahead of the Argentinian.

Argentine.

[DIOS DOMINICANO]

wow!
who agrees there both haters???????????
i do
what afreat figtn how can u see n e less ?
floyd boys
smh!!! hard

Revs. Put on a shirt. Please.