how sad is it for boxing when a stacked card like jmm/katsidis, berot, and caballero

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  • Pullcounter
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    how sad is it for boxing when a stacked card like jmm/katsidis, berot, and caballero

    how sad is it for boxing when a stacked card like jmm/katsidis, berto, and caballero can't draw more than 5,000???

    or is it more indicative of the failure of GBP and Dibella to sell their boxers to the general public?

    or does it indicate that none of these guys can sell ***** to flies?

    who is to blame for such a stacked card to sell so few seats?
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    #2
    5,000 is a perfectly decent number.

    Juan was fighting on a Holiday weekend in Vegas, when most people are leaving town, against a guy no one (outside of us) has ever heard of before.

    Also note, Juan's last fight against Diaz was not at all the war it was solid as being. Probably the backlash of a ****ty fight. I believe the under-performing live gate of Pac/Margarito had a lot to do with the underwhelming Pac/Clottey affair leaving a bad taste in peoples mouths.

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    • War Dinamita
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      5K is decent for the card because JMM was the only big name fighter on the card.

      Casual fans and non hardcore fans don't know the rest of the fighters on the card and they aren't draws.

      The card was stacked for hard core boxing fans, but casual fans weren't going to buy it because they don't know who the fighters are.

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      • SCtrojansbaby
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        #4
        5000 is fine number

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          #5
          Originally posted by paulf
          5,000 is a perfectly decent number.

          Juan was fighting on a Holiday weekend in Vegas, when most people are leaving town, against a guy no one (outside of us) has ever heard of before.

          Also note, Juan's last fight against Diaz was not at all the war it was solid as being. Probably the backlash of a ****ty fight. I believe the under-performing live gate of Pac/Margarito had a lot to do with the underwhelming Pac/Clottey affair leaving a bad taste in peoples mouths.
          I'm not just talking about jmm tho. jmm, berto or caballero, someone didn't pull their weight. the card was stacked but couldn't sell to the casual fan

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            #6
            Originally posted by SCtrojansbaby
            5000 is fine number
            the actual number is less than 5k, I just rounded up

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            • Pullcounter
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              #7
              Originally posted by Libra_Por_Libra
              5K is decent for the card because JMM was the only big name fighter on the card.

              Casual fans and non hardcore fans don't know the rest of the fighters on the card and they aren't draws.

              The card was stacked for hard core boxing fans, but casual fans weren't going to buy it because they don't know who the fighters are.
              who's fault is that tho?

              is it the fighter's fault for being uncharismatic? being unable to draw?

              or is it the promoter's fault for not selling the fight to the casual fan and not promoting their boxer well enough?

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                #8
                Originally posted by Pullcounter
                I'm not just talking about jmm tho. jmm, berto or caballero, someone didn't pull their weight. the card was stacked but couldn't sell to the casual fan
                Berto is not even a draw in his hometown.

                Guys at lower weights like Caballero never bring big crowds unless they're, say, Puerto Rican and fighting in a city with a big PR crowd (Juanma in NYC, for example)

                Marquez is also simply not a big draw amongst Mexicans/Mexican Americans. He brings crowds, but not the way Morales and Barrera did.

                You can blow money and promote all day, but in the end the public decides which fighters they way to see regardless of talent.

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                • Pullcounter
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by paulf
                  Berto is not even a draw in his hometown.

                  Guys at lower weights like Caballero never bring big crowds unless they're, say, Puerto Rican and fighting in a city with a big PR crowd (Juanma in NYC, for example)

                  Marquez is also simply not a big draw amongst Mexicans/Mexican Americans. He brings crowds, but not the way Morales and Barrera did.

                  You can blow money and promote all day, but in the end the public decides which fighters they way to see regardless of talent.
                  so you're saying it's their promoters fault for not selling the hard sell

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Pullcounter
                    how sad is it for boxing when a stacked card like jmm/katsidis, berto, and caballero can't draw more than 5,000???

                    or is it more indicative of the failure of GBP and Dibella to sell their boxers to the general public?

                    or does it indicate that none of these guys can sell ***** to flies?

                    who is to blame for such a stacked card to sell so few seats?
                    Its a known fact.

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