Amir Khan Breaks Ticket Records at MEN Arena

[BattleHardened]

For all you informed and clueless Americans, this is why Khan is fighting McCloskey.

First off, wouldn't we be uninformed?

Secondly, I'm American and have no problem with him taking this fight in the UK before Bradley.

Thirdly, Once again let me restate that I am American, and Khan is one of my favorite fighters.

[sunny31]

Hatton-Tszyu sold out in less than 2 hours.

hahah I made a thread about this yesterday, anyway far from beating the record of Hatton-Tsyzu, it was sold out in like an hour.

You are mis-informed boys, I bought my tickets 1 day after they came out aprox 36 hours, and I was ringside towards the corner 5 rows back.

[sunny31]

Fantastic how the Brits can pay for mismatches, first Haye vs Harrison and now Khan vs McDonalds
Man, I should make business there touring the country with monkeys fighting each other, would turn millionaire in no time, could even promote monkey fights as PPV

At least we are good boxing fans, we come out and support our fighters... more than I can say about american boxing fans, who can't even turn out for 2 of their best young fighters. Pathetic

[gingeralbino]

Touts in Manchester are proper little pricks aswell. Sting you for 3 times face value.

im gonna get 4, theres me and a mate def up for it and 2 maybes. If they dont go, ill get my flights paid for when i sell them on then :-)

[Rick Grimes]

You are mis-informed boys, I bought my tickets 1 day after they came out aprox 36 hours, and I was ringside towards the corner 5 rows back.

Where did you buy them from?

"We at Showtime did not, but the promoters did," said Larkin of Frank Warren, who is putting on this event, which sold out in less than two hours.

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=2074210

[sunny31]

First off, wouldn't we be uninformed?

Secondly, I'm American and have no problem with him taking this fight in the UK before Bradley.

Thirdly, Once again let me restate that I am American, and Khan is one of my favorite fighters.

Its a shame their isn't more fans like you, then good young US fighters like Bradley, Ward, etc would get more exposure and the hype they deserve from the whole country. I know Ward does some decent gates, but come one with that talent...gold medallist, the kid should be a superstar, even if he can be poor to watch

[sunny31]

Where did you buy them from?

"We at Showtime did not, but the promoters did," said Larkin of Frank Warren, who is putting on this event, which sold out in less than two hours.

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/box...ory?id=2074210

Think it was the Men direct or the number that was given on Hatton's website might have been ticketmaster not 100% sure though, tbh I went to Tackie, Tszyu, Maussa, Mayweather, Lazcano, and get them confused, def got the mayweather tickets from ticketmaster. But I do remember when and where; because I waited for my boss to leave the office, went to the toilet and phoned up for them around 6:00pm, they came out in the morning the previous day. Sometimes they bull**** with the numbers and exaggerate the timing I think...mind you when I phoned it was only ringside tickets left. I paid approx £350.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Fantastic how the Brits can pay for mismatches, first Haye vs Harrison and now Khan vs McDonalds
Man, I should make business there touring the country with monkeys fighting each other, would turn millionaire in no time, could even promote monkey fights as PPV

What was the PPV buyrate for Tyson vs Peter McNeeley?

[Mr. Philadel]

The Manchester MEN Arena’s record for first day ticket sales was broken yesterday when an unprecedented 9,000 out of approximately 22,000 available tickets sold within hours for the fight between WBA light-welterweight champion, Amir Khan and European light-welterweight champion Paul McCloskey.

The demand for tickets to this fight shows Amir Khan’s increasing popularity amongst the boxing fraternity. His opponent, Irish boxer Paul McCloskey is not even regarded as a big name challenger to the former Olympic medallist, who is trying to use this fight as against McCloskey at the MEN Arena as a pit stop for a possible bout against WBC and WBO champion Timothy Bradley this summer.

http://ht.ly/3TLXN

NOW I hope all that greedy talk will stop....Khan is MAJOR in the UK so dudes should stop complaining and just ride with the 70/30 or whatever the hook up is and stop accusing AK of throwing low ball numbers at his opponents.....the ONLY dude at 140 who shouldn't have to ride the 70/30 wave is Timothy Bradley....he EARNED the right to get IMO 50/50....60/40 for Bradley is kinda disrespectful IMO.....props to AK for puttin' asses in the seats like a STAR is supposed to

[PandaKilla]

Fantastic how the Brits can pay for mismatches, first Haye vs Harrison and now Khan vs McDonalds
Man, I should make business there touring the country with monkeys fighting each other, would turn millionaire in no time, could even promote monkey fights as PPV

How many paid for Mayweather VS JMM?