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    Tickets for the hotly anticipated boxing showdown between undefeated junior welterweight champions Tim Bradley and Devon Alexander are moving like coldcakes--no, make that frozen cakes--at the Pontiac Silverdome, site of the bout which is being televised by HBO.

    An inflamed source told me at noon Thursday that a not so grand total of 339 tickets have been sold for the match between the world champ from St. Louis, Alexander, and the one from California (Bradley).

    Tickets range from a $25 bottom to a $400 ringside top and have been on sale since Dec. 10.

    The 80,000-seat arena, which recently sold for the price of a modest house and is the former home of the NFL Detroit Lions, will be cordoned off for a cozy, 7,000-seat setup.

    "The first four rows at ringside are being given away, those seats go to Don King and Gary Shaw (co-promoters) and to HBO and its guests. You can only buy tickets from the fifth row back," my source said Thursday afternoon.

    Chances are we will never the honest count on paid attendance in both dollars and rear ends in the seats who did not get in free as Michigan keeps such information private by law.

    Maybe Wikileaks can come up with it, it's beyond me.

    There was some insanity to selecting this neutral venue but Shaw and King got some glad tidings Wednesday as their promised $600,000 site fee came through albeit a few days late.

    Had the bout been held in St. Louis, a 12,000-seat venue figured to sell out in a short time.

    Perhaps, this being near Motor City Detroit, they expect a huge "drive up" at the last minute.

    http://www.examiner.com/boxing-in-na...#ixzz1AwY6WlLS

    Surely Marley has got this wrong? I don't think this is a 'super-fight' but surely it has got to be doing better than this??

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    Devon Alexander: "It's not about chasing Amir Khan. Amir Khan is not the cash cow at 140. I got a big following in St. Louis just like he has a big following in the UK. I don't think we should be dwelling too much about Khan after this."

    .........

    They should have held this fight in Europe. It would be sold out in the UK. America doesn't deserve fights like these.

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    • #3
      One of the reasons why it is NOT a 'superfight'. Though, I don't give a **** and am watching this fight. Gonna be a good one.

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      • #4
        I mean... 339... for ****'s sake.

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        • #5
          St.Louis would have came out for this fight!!!

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          • #6
            what's happening with boxing in America? daimn

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            • #7
              Bloody hell. Thats realy bad news for boxing in General imo

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              • #8
                Well for one, Marley isn't always right about his numbers.

                Two, he is right about one thing though for sure, if this was in st. louis this would be a sell out, it would be closer to 20,000 tickets sold.

                Three, WHY IS THIS FIGHT IN DETROIT?!? Neither fighter is from the detroit, neither fighter has any ties to Detroit, and quite frankly, the sad truth is boxing is pretty dead in detroit right now.

                Ok, so I understand that team bradley wouldn't want to give the home field advantage to alexander on a fight of this magnitude, but seriously, there are literally dozens, if not hundreds of locations better than detroit!

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                • #9
                  I'm gonna' go to this fight. Just to support it. This absurd. The economy is really bad around here. Why they chose Detroit is beyond me.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by ИATAS206 View Post
                    Well for one, Marley isn't always right about his numbers.

                    Two, he is right about one thing though for sure, if this was in st. louis this would be a sell out, it would be closer to 20,000 tickets sold.

                    Three, WHY IS THIS FIGHT IN DETROIT?!? Neither fighter is from the midwest, neither fighter has any ties to Detroit, and quite frankly, the sad truth is boxing is pretty dead in detroit right now.

                    Ok, so I understand that team bradley wouldn't want to give the home field advantage to alexander on a fight of this magnitude, but seriously, there are literally dozens, if not hundreds of locations better than detroit!
                    Eminem is from Detroit.

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