jmm/katsidis sells more tickets than khan/maidana

[Check_hooks]

Its a Golden girls production. Pac-Marg did 40,000 in attendance and 1.15 million PPV. Top Rank knows how to sell a fight. GBP doesnt.

[loui_ludwig]

I can understand Maidana-Khan having that attendance. Khan is just getting known here in the US. Both Maidana and Khan does not have a strong fan base yet. I mean not much Pakistani-Brit and Argentinians living in the US.

Katsidis does not much have a strong based either but JM Marquez has been known since his battle with Pacquiao in 2004. Plus Golden Boy has promoted him since 2006 or 07. JMM has been in PPV fights. More Mexican fan based compare to the other fighters fan base.

I like Las Vegas but they should hold boxing events such as Los Angeles. Hope Montiel-Donaire will be in Staples or Honda Center.

[xcaret v3]

both fights in u.k would of done over 15000 people

bring the big fights over here

i still dont understand why british fighters wanna come over here to the states to be stars... they get better attendance and viewers over there than here.

[Mr. Hipster]

We need more fights at Staples Center and Home Depot Center.

[sweetpea87]

I agree. I live close to St Louis and was super excited for Alexander-Bradley to come there, but then if fell through there. I did get to go to Diaz-Malignaggi II in Chicago which was awesome. I wish they would have more fights in other cities so I could get to go to more fights.

[araindon]

Fights end up in Vegas because the casino's pay a lot of money for them and the promoters give in to that. Khan can get more fans in the UK to come to his fight, but it works differently. Golden Boy would have to hire a venue, then sell tickets at a price that people would come for, get Sky to broadcast it, HBO wouldn't pay as much as usual because of the time frame....and the money wouldn't be as much. Plus, in the UK, nobody writes about boxing...getting serious exposure here doesn't work....Ricky Hatton was one in a million...no one cared about Lennox Lewis. Even now, nobody cares about him, which is a damn shame.

It's not got anything to do with GBP being bad promoters, they're top...the whole movie theatre thing sounded pretty awesome and went down well with the fans. The free tickets casinos give away is nothing....I'm pretty sure the casino's want people to get their asses on seats...for them to go and gamble like crazy and spend money in the casino after...thats their aim. They don't care about comp tickets. Even Mayweather Vs JMM, half the tickets were comps, but it didn't mater, they got what they wanted and they got 1million buys...so it works for them. Sucks for real fans like us though :-(

[Sweet Jesus]

People need to realize that if this was in England, they tickets wouldn't be priced the same. Hence, there would be a higher attendance.

Second, what arena in England is gonna pay a site fee that even compares to the ones that Vegas throws down.

Just cause there are more fans in their seats doesn't mean that the promoters will be making more money. Trust me, if there was more money to be made overseas, these guys would go over there. They are in the money making business after all.

[Sweet Jesus]

I agree. I live close to St Louis and was super excited for Alexander-Bradley to come there, but then if fell through there. I did get to go to Diaz-Malignaggi II in Chicago which was awesome. I wish they would have more fights in other cities so I could get to go to more fights.

You can still drive up to Detroit. 6 hours one way. Go with a buddy. Two 3 hour shifts.

[El Ceja]

nah nah...keep the figts in vegas

[Gino Ros]

yeah they do need to get out of Vegas..Bob Arum at least has the right idea doing big fights elsewhere


I'm pretty sure Pascal-Hopkins is going to sell out in Canada though...going to be a good atmosphere

If the "big fights elsewhere' model was successful, then why is Bob going back to Vegas for manny's next fight?

Bob even said (ha!) that the Cotto Yankee stadium fight was not financially successful. And we know that the gate for the Texas Stadium fights were 5-6 million.


Would you rather get paid in dollars...or seats?