Cotto-Margarito...the arena was 40% EMPTY.

[DIOS DOMINICANO]

And the Thomas & Mack is a very very small venue.. NOTHING compared to MGM Grand..

I have love for the mentally handicapped...so i won't embarrass you. But you are wrong.

[Sin City]

soooo, lemme get this straight:

mayweather/ baldoomir: 10K of 12K capacity... it's a failure.

cotto/margarito: 10k of 17K capacity...it's a success

OK. i understand. thanks.

they didn't give out free tickets for Margo vs. Cotto.. sorry..
They had to give away tickets just to fill seats for the Baldo fight so I'm guessing it was much lower then 10k

[DIOS DOMINICANO]

Hmmm, well u know what the answer is have the fights over here at ****** o'Clock so it suits u lots tv schedule and we'd pack out the live areana seats.

Surely having the fight else where wouldnt effect the PPV sales. Or would it?

Time zones, man.

If you got a 9pm fight start in london, that would be 3pm on saturday afternoon for the east Coast. Americans ain't buying that.

[Sin City]

I can't stand Calzaghe and I wouldn't buy a fight just to see him lose. Thats a waste of $50 bucks...I must be the only poor guy in this site.

So you are saying that those crowds where in favor of Mayweather instead of DLH and Ricky Hatton?? c'mon dude you can't be serious..

[Chuckguy]

What sort of boxing fans do u hav over there!?
Marga" I walk thru punches"Rito and Miguel Cotto dont pack out an arena?
Ricky Hatton could put 50000 butts on seats scratching his arse!

More fights should be fought in citys that havent had big shows in years. **** even bring them over here they'd sell out i gaurentee it!

That is one thing I give you and your mates big time credit for across the pond. You guys wouls pack that one stadium to capaity of like 75,000 for a Hatton cottto or hatton oscar or hatton anybody fight.
I wasnt there live but I did see it in high def on a 50 plasma and it looked pretty packed to me but then again I never heard of the numbers so maybe it was some what empty

[Naps]

Well, that point is relevant because it induces the fighter's behaviour. If you know that the gate pays you, you will tell people to buy tickets and you'll take the microphone and you'll try to create that "in-arena" environment. You do more locally

If you know that PPV sales pays you, then you become more of a TV salkesman. Which is why you see fighters go to onto FNF or ESPN with Brian Kenny. Or in PBF's case, you do 24/7. You try to appeal to a national TV audience.

See what i mean?

Yeah, I do see what you're saying. But I do find it hard to accept that a fighter can influence a fan into deciding whether to watch live or on TV to such a degree.

eg. If Floyd came to England to fight Baldomir now, and tried this so called 'TV sales pitch', he could still sell 30K live tickets to us Brits.

I think it's more likely to do you with an earlier point you made about Yanks having the "Fight Party" tradition, and the Europeans preferring the real thing.

I also think we have a lot more fun than you lot at live events. You've seen us at the weigh-ins and in your arenas having such a riot and so much fun. Whereas you guys are a bit more reserved, and maybe don't let loose as much as us when attending live events.

Get me?

[Sin City]

Fact is that Mayweather can't sell out or sell period without DLH or Hatton, the only people he could do it against would be Margo and Cotto but as we have already seen, he is scared ****less of them. It's no wonder he is retired.

[El Dominicano]

So you are saying that those crowds where in favor of Mayweather instead of DLH and Ricky Hatton?? c'mon dude you can't be serious..

Your either a fan of one of the other. You can't possibly convince me that people would pay so MUCH...just to see a certain fighter get beat.

[unbanrogelio128]

Are you going to ignore this account too dios dominicano??? Im assuming you will since i always make you look like a ****en moron and you can't counter anything i throw at you . So here it is again you damb bull **** excuse of a fan. I wish i could slap you silly and make you my hoe!

Does that look 40% empty?
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does that look 40% empty?
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[unbanrogelio128]

Because it was a disappointment. So HBO won't issue a press release.


Did you know that the area was nearly half-empty?

****en moron! you dont know **** about what you talk about. You make **** up because you have nothing else to talk about since floyd retired. YOU ****EN MAINSTREAM FAN you dont know ****.
Does that look 40% empty?
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does that look 40% empty?
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