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From this week’s Sports Business Journal on the two major big boxing matches. The Manny Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey match which drew an announced crowd of 50,994 fans to Cowboys Stadium on 3/13 actually drew 41,483 fans, which was 36,371 paid and a gate of $6,359,985. The big difference between this gate and a Las Vegas gate for either UFC or boxing is that this is a real number of tickets sold mostly to fans. For UFC in Las Vegas, several thousand tickets for every show are sold to casinos who then give the tickets to high rollers as incentives to get them to stay at their hotels. For a huge boxing match, that’s even more. For the biggest fight so far this year, which was Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Shane Mosley on 5/1, the paid attendance at the MGM Grand Garden Arena was 14,038 and the gate was $11,032,100, but somewhere between 2,000 and 4,000 tickets were sold by the MGM Grand itself, and thousands of others were sold to other casinos. The number of actual people in the general public like boxing fans who buy tickets is not that large because of the price structure, since 4,800 seats were priced at $1,250 per ticket. There was another 6,712 fans paying $335,600 at the six closed-circuit locations in the city. So total numbers from ticket sales in Las Vegas were 20,750 sold tickets and $11,367,700. Mayweather earned $22.5 million and Mosley earned $6.75 million for the fight. What was even more notable is that you can put some of the biggest name boxers besides Pacquiao and Mayweather and if you take them out of Las Vegas where you have the casino buys, you can’t draw. For example, the 5/8 HBO fight with Paul Williams vs. Kermit Cintron at the Home Depot Center in Carson, CA, drew only 2,422 paid for $135,640, but with HBO footing the bill, the two main eventers shared a total purse of $1,765,000. For Vitali Klitshcko vs. Chris Arreola last year at the Staples Center, the actual paid was 7,647 and a gate of $868,330, but the two fighters shared a $2.9 million purse. Andre Berto vs. Carlos Quintana in Sunrise, FL drew 972 paid and $105,759, but the fighters shared a $1.25 million payday. The scariest number of all was last year’s Vic Darchinyan vs. Joseph Agbeko Showtime fight drew 11,772 in Sunrise, FL, which sounds great, until you find out the paid was 757 and gate was $52,503.
From this week’s Sports Business Journal on the two major big boxing matches. The Manny Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey match which drew an announced crowd of 50,994 fans to Cowboys Stadium on 3/13 actually drew 41,483 fans, which was 36,371 paid and a gate of $6,359,985. The big difference between this gate and a Las Vegas gate for either UFC or boxing is that this is a real number of tickets sold mostly to fans. For UFC in Las Vegas, several thousand tickets for every show are sold to casinos who then give the tickets to high rollers as incentives to get them to stay at their hotels. For a huge boxing match, that’s even more. For the biggest fight so far this year, which was Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Shane Mosley on 5/1, the paid attendance at the MGM Grand Garden Arena was 14,038 and the gate was $11,032,100, but somewhere between 2,000 and 4,000 tickets were sold by the MGM Grand itself, and thousands of others were sold to other casinos. The number of actual people in the general public like boxing fans who buy tickets is not that large because of the price structure, since 4,800 seats were priced at $1,250 per ticket. There was another 6,712 fans paying $335,600 at the six closed-circuit locations in the city. So total numbers from ticket sales in Las Vegas were 20,750 sold tickets and $11,367,700. Mayweather earned $22.5 million and Mosley earned $6.75 million for the fight. What was even more notable is that you can put some of the biggest name boxers besides Pacquiao and Mayweather and if you take them out of Las Vegas where you have the casino buys, you can’t draw. For example, the 5/8 HBO fight with Paul Williams vs. Kermit Cintron at the Home Depot Center in Carson, CA, drew only 2,422 paid for $135,640, but with HBO footing the bill, the two main eventers shared a total purse of $1,765,000. For Vitali Klitshcko vs. Chris Arreola last year at the Staples Center, the actual paid was 7,647 and a gate of $868,330, but the two fighters shared a $2.9 million purse. Andre Berto vs. Carlos Quintana in Sunrise, FL drew 972 paid and $105,759, but the fighters shared a $1.25 million payday. The scariest number of all was last year’s Vic Darchinyan vs. Joseph Agbeko Showtime fight drew 11,772 in Sunrise, FL, which sounds great, until you find out the paid was 757 and gate was $52,503.
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