Comments Thread For: Bradley-Alexander Tickets Reportedly Struggling in Pontiac

[onechance87]

Pretty Pathetic and not surprising in the least.

Why is this happening?I know there not from detroit,But why arent black
fans coming to suppport this fight.Same shlt happend to berto in florida
with quintana,Dont think theres alot of black people in florida tho.

[The Gambler1981]

Ouch.. If this is true (339 tickets sold).. whoever funded the 600 k is ****ed. How much are Bradley/Alexander getting paid? This is not a good sign for boxing. However, I'm sure that there will be many tuning in to watch this fight.

The fighters are fine HBO and the site fee are paying them, Shaw and King may take a bit of a hit or not make anything but whatever not like they put in a ton of work.

HBO will still want to have them as long as ratings are decent and that is the most important thing because fights can be held anywhere really if HBO is paying the large part of the bill.

[Squizz]

Yeah okay. I just checked out the directions. It's actually closer than Great Lakes Crossings. I'll just take the straight shot I-75 all the way out there. I'm not driving through the ******.

[V.WEBB]

IF they would have brought it here, Devon would have did his numbers, believe that.

[Porter's Dad]

Really sucks if true.

[Dale Cardon]

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??

15 days to go and 95% seats still unsold? This isn't looking good at all. I hope this isn't true.

[V.WEBB]

Bradleys Team is sooo ****** they didnt want to have it in St Louis...lol

If Bradley cant sell tickets in Palm Springs, how the **** will he in Pontiac?

FAIL!

Based on the decision that Devon got against Kotelnik, I could understand if Bradley didn't want to have it here. But, tickets would have been sold here for sure.

[egreezy]

Why didn't they put any Detroit boxers on the undercard like K9?

[The Gambler1981]

This is more of a hardcore fans fight and the numbers reflect it. Mayweather-Corrales was a box-office bust too.

I didn't figure it would do big things but I talk boxing all the time in the area so I would figure it would not be a total disaster.

Even so whatever less people there the better for me I hate being all crowded and getting in and out should be no issue like it was for Lions games.

[Pu$$yKiller]

It's a shame this fight aint a hit, partly Alexander killed soem buzz by his performance VS Kotelnik, but also they should have done it closer to a Khan fight or allowed HBO to hype up the tourney.

In a way, when the fight was big, it could have been made but Bradley's team kept waiting, and since then when Bradley fought ABregu and Alexander fought Kotelnik, that hype has defintiely gone down, and everyone expects Bradley to win.