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Watching the Yankee game today...every game, all 162 of them each year, they draw 50, 000 plus. EVERY GAME. 50 thousand people find the time to come to the game every day...the games are hugely publicized, the fans just know they are there and they go...yet some of the biggest fights in boxing, even with huge marketing schemes attached, barely get 10 thousand fans. Sometimes they get only 6 or . Good fights at the casinos get 2000.
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Last edited by ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY; 06-22-2008, 01:00 PM. -
Damn, when you put it that way, yeah the disparity seems kind of crazy. Also every Saturday during Football season there will be at least 10 stadiums with 80k-116k fans. -
For the most part it cost less money to see a baseball game then a boxing event.
Baseball is a family-orientated where the whole family can go enjoy the day/night eat hotdogs ect,ect...
Team sport franchises are staples in peoples lives, your father was a Yankee fan so your a Yankee fan for life, boxers come and go. Just look at Joe Mesi and Buffalo, he could fill up arenas everytime he fought. A sport like boxing is more peaks and valleys, one week you see a boxing card attract a few thousand fans. Then you see 55k+ in a soccer stadium in europe, the casino giving the promoters a big site fee is what has killed the live boxing fan experience.Comment
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Yeh a pretty big disparity i agree.Comment
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The Yankees have and always will be there for New Yorkers to cheer for. We're talking about 100 years of building a fan base. Generations of Yankee fans. It's just different when you support a name instead of an individual.
It'd be like Ali fighting for 100 years straight.Comment
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No, man, going to a Yankee or Red Sox game is NOT cheap....the average guy canno ttake his two sons to a game like they used to be able to. They this year at the Yankees the beers will cost like 15 dollars or something. People will still go every day, though.Comment
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Yeah, I gotta agree with you there. The big fights moving away from the fighters fan bases has distanced them from us. There are no longer NYC, Phili or Detroit boxers. They are all Vegas fighters now.
Can't blame fans too much for not being die hard when he knows that once his fighter makes it big he wont get to see him live again.
How many fans would watch a college football team lose if every big game was played 1,000miles away? And the only games he could watch live were against scrub/tune-up teams.Comment
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The beers are Yankee stadium
$12.50 for 24 Heineken which is two beers, I been to plenty of fights and the beers are no bargain let me tell you that.
The tickets for the Yankees are no bargain but you can get bleacher tickets for $14 and the tier reserved are $22-30 a piece, sure they are the crappiest tickets in the house but you ain't getting those ticket prices to see any HBO/Showtime PPV type card.Comment
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boxing is not a cheap sport nowadays ... i estimate ive spent around 5K in attending Hattons fights (usually ringside though TBH) since 02 and thats not including travel and tickets for the other fighters ive seen over the yearsComment
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well Mayweather is trying to make boxing look like WWE and to bring more fans into it.
anyway I think there are many sports that people dont look at like Decathlon which have the best athlete or even people never heard about Decathlon or the best people around there.
example Hawwian native Brain Clay?Comment
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