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

[DIOS DOMINICANO]

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!

Cotto can sell a house in NYC...and probably Atlantic City. That is where the Puerto Rican fanbase is.

Margarito was being counted upon to hold up his end of the bargain, but he can't draw flies to ****. He couldn't sell oranges bythe freeway.

[El Dominicano]

Let me catch you in an easy lie:


The attendance was 10,477 and the gate was "a touch under $3 million," according to Arum.

MGM Grand garden capacity? Over 17,000.

Now, go kill yourself.

I'd like to know how Mayorga fights do. You got any of that info? Asking cuz the guy always makes me wana buy his fights.

[The Surgeon]

yeah i would love to one day attend a fight in england between two top class american based fighters and they could definitely pack out a stadium too

Ali used to fight all over, and not just against home fighters, Zaire and Manilla for example against fellow Americans.
I Know a Pavlik or a Cotto would sell out here!

[Check]

Didnt the fight sell OVER 12500 tickets? I think HBO confirmed that, not the garb numbers you got there. Secondly MGM during boxing events I think can only hold max of 15000, not 17000. Show me some fights that did more and I will believe that the MGM can hold 17k for a boxing event.

[The Surgeon]

Cotto can sell a house in NYC...and probably Atlantic City. That is where the Puerto Rican fanbase is.

Margarito was being counted upon to hold up his end of the bargain, but he can't draw flies to ****. He couldn't sell oranges bythe freeway.

Whats the Gardens capacity tho? Hardley the 50000 Hatton pulled in for LAZCANO!
It should be so much better

[DIOS DOMINICANO]

I'd like to know how Mayorga fights do. You got any of that info? Asking cuz the guy always makes me wana buy his fights.

Well, Rico's nums are high because he has fought Oscar, and he fought Nando at Staples.

[DIOS DOMINICANO]

Whats the Gardens capacity tho? Hardley the 50000 Hatton pulled in for LAZCANO!
It should be so much better

On Puerto Rican parade weekend, Cotto can fill the garden (MSG) with about 18K - 19K.

[-Antonio-]

Ali used to fight all over, and not just against home fighters, Zaire and Manilla for example against fellow Americans.
I Know a Pavlik or a Cotto would sell out here!

That's what boxing sorely lacks. But Casinos pay top dollar for these fights, which is why a fight like this one, which should have been on the East Coast, ended up in Vegas.

It's why there was a fight between a Brooklyn native and Bronx native held in a small Vegas venue. (Judah/Clottey)

[-Antonio-]

On Puerto Rican parade weekend, Cotto can fill the garden (MSG) with about 18K - 19K.

Him and Judah broke the attendance record. Or should I not believe that?

[DIOS DOMINICANO]

Didnt the fight sell OVER 12500 tickets? I think HBO confirmed that, not the garb numbers you got there. Secondly MGM during boxing events I think can only hold max of 15000, not 17000. Show me some fights that did more and I will believe that the MGM can hold 17k for a boxing event.

go google 10,477.

http://www.lvrj.com/sports/12198056.html

Things were too civil to be true in the final news conference to promote Saturday night's world welterweight title fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Ricky Hatton at the MGM Grand Garden.

Even Roger Mayweather, Floyd's uncle and trainer, was nice, praising Hatton and keeping the profanity that usually fills his rambling diatribes to a few choice F-bombs.


But this is boxing, and when the fighters posed together for the cameras Wednesday and Mayweather started leaning on Hatton, the British fighter pushed back. They were quickly separated.

"He's trying to push me, and I'm not going to let him get away with that," Hatton said. "Maybe he was trying to get under my skin. Maybe he was trying to intimidate me.

"But I'm not going to put up with that."

Plenty of hype has been stirred for this fight between unbeaten boxers. The approximately 17,000 seats at the MGM Grand Garden sold out in less than a half-hour. Closed-circuit sales at the various MGM Mirage properties have been brisk, with the MGM ballroom sold out and more than 14,000 of an available 18,000 seats purchased.



From Wikipedia:

MGM Grand Garden Arena is located in the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is patterned after New York's Madison Square Garden.[citation needed] The arena has a seating capacity of 17,157 people and is located at 3799 Las Vegas Boulevard South.

CHECKMANIA, DO YOU OWE ME AN APOLOGY?? aRE YOU MAN ENOUGH FOR THAT?