Joe Calzaghe vs Roy Jones Jnr breaks ticket sales record

[hishaam15]

Pre-sale tickets for the superfight between Joe Calzaghe and Roy Jones Jnr, set for Nov 8 at Madison Square Garden, New York, have broken the record for the venue, according to John Wirt, CEO of Square Ring.


How many PPV buys do you think this fight will make?

400k?

[KnockoutTheFat]

100000000000000 PPV buys.

Okay but seriously, if RJJ can do 610K with Ruiz...

[Spiegelo]

I was going to attend this one myself, but the tickets are unforgivably high priced. I will have to go with Sopcast ONE MO' TIME!

Only problem is that everyone will probably be using it and it will refresh every 3 seconds.

[RodBarker]

Thats great I hope it does really big , the more fights that can generate the big numbers the better for boxing .

[Da Hammer]

Thats great I hope it does really big , the more fights that can generate the big numbers the better for boxing .

exactly the point i was gonna make! i really dont see this matchup at this point of Jones career to be a huge deal fighting against Calzaghe but if it helps the sports of boxing in promotion and interest then im glad this fight is happening!

[hishaam15]

Yeah, i think it will be a great fightt... 12 rounds of boxing most likely

[Check]

Link please. How many tickets did the sell?

[hishaam15]

100000000000000 PPV buys.

Okay but seriously, if RJJ can do 610K with Ruiz...

RJJ did 610k with Ruiz?
i thought it was a flop, because roy never attended the press conferences and media workouts... didnt find out the PPV stats though

[hishaam15]

Link please. How many tickets did the sell?

it didnt mention how many tickets they sold..
but heres the link...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/oth...---Boxing.html

[Sox8055]

Am thinking most of them will be Brits....