Do "Celebs" get free or discounted tickets to appear at boxing matches

[BrianMVP]

Hey im just wondering do celebs get free tickets or them at a discounted rate to go to the major fights (or any televised fights for that matter)????

Im just been looking at a few fights today,Pac v Cotto, May v Mosley, May v Hatton, Cotto v Mosley and the fact that they always happen to be seated opposite the camera for EVERY major fight got me thinking.
Im just curious of the business side of it, would you say the promoters ring up the likes of Mark Walberg, Diddy, Derek Jeter etc the regulars at all the major fights and ask them do the want to sit in these prestigious seats.
It seams like a win win to me, celebs get some free publicity with there face on tv in front of millions of people... and a free fight.
The promoter gets to associate these people to it event

Could anybody fill me in, im curious, Thanks

[New England]

Hey im just wondering do celebs get free tickets or them at a discounted rate to go to the major fights (or any televised fights for that matter)????

Im just been looking at a few fights today,Pac v Cotto, May v Mosley, May v Hatton, Cotto v Mosley and the fact that they always happen to be seated opposite the camera for EVERY major fight got me thinking.
Im just curious of the business side of it, would you say the promoters ring up the likes of Mark Walberg, Diddy, Derek Jeter etc the regulars at all the major fights and ask them do the want to sit in these prestigious seats.
It seams like a win win to me, celebs get some free publicity with there face on tv in front of millions of people... and a free fight.
The promoter gets to associate these people to it event

Could anybody fill me in, im curious, Thanks

some of them might get comps but for the most part they are paying for their own tickets


when you make a few million dollars in a year and are a celebirty a two thousand dollar ringside seat isn't much cash
not to mention it's good publicity.

[MurkaMan]

Hey im just wondering do celebs get free tickets or them at a discounted rate to go to the major fights (or any televised fights for that matter)????

Im just been looking at a few fights today,Pac v Cotto, May v Mosley, May v Hatton, Cotto v Mosley and the fact that they always happen to be seated opposite the camera for EVERY major fight got me thinking.
Im just curious of the business side of it, would you say the promoters ring up the likes of Mark Walberg, Diddy, Derek Jeter etc the regulars at all the major fights and ask them do the want to sit in these prestigious seats.
It seams like a win win to me, celebs get some free publicity with there face on tv in front of millions of people... and a free fight.
The promoter gets to associate these people to it event

Could anybody fill me in, im curious, Thanks

HBO Flies the celebs out, pays for their tickets, hotel suit, so they can be in the audience, and the camera can show how popular the fight is

[SCtrojansbaby]

LOL HBO doesn't fly anybody out or pay for any hotels. Who told you that?

Those seats are bought by high powered agents who give them to their clients(P-Diddy, Jamie Foxx, Mario Lopez etc). Same as basketball games.

[MurkaMan]

LOL HBO doesn't fly anybody out or pay for any hotels. Who told you that?

Those seats are bought by high powered agents who give them to their clients(P-Diddy, Jamie Foxx, Mario Lopez etc). Same as basketball games.

HBO ALWAYS give free tickets to as many famous people as possible so the camera can show them in the audience

[MRBOOMER]

Regulars Prbly pay for there tickets but new clebs that would help bring fans to the sport get a comp you know what they say when you get rich everything's free for a while

[edgarg]

Whilst all of the above posts can be partially correct, I believe that many or most high-powered celebrities get attendance fees. They are in business, have agents to maximize their incomes (from which they get a percentage) and rarely do anything for nothing, unless it's good publicity. That they might (or might not) have gone anyway is just incidental. They are so busy, that they only are contracted for the main event, or maybe a portion of it. They could have 3-4 appearances at different events on the same night.

[FJRod]

I think guys like Stallone and Marky Mark pay for their stuff because they are true fans. I'm sure celebs get special treatment tho'. The higher up the ladder the better treatment u get. Just like a hot chic gets better treatment than a fat chic, is all the same.

[SCtrojansbaby]

Whilst all of the above posts can be partially correct, I believe that many or most high-powered celebrities get attendance fees. They are in business, have agents to maximize their incomes (from which they get a percentage) and rarely do anything for nothing, unless it's good publicity. That they might (or might not) have gone anyway is just incidental. They are so busy, that they only are contracted for the main event, or maybe a portion of it. They could have 3-4 appearances at different events on the same night.

LOL you're wrong. Agents buy the tickets with their own money and they give them to their clients there is no contract.

[Barry Halls]

LOL HBO doesn't fly anybody out or pay for any hotels. Who told you that?

Those seats are bought by high powered agents who give them to their clients(P-Diddy, Jamie Foxx, Mario Lopez etc). Same as basketball games.

sctrojansbaby is 100% correct. I've seen this on Entourage so it's legit!