Comments Thread For: Floyd Mayweather vs. Robert Guerrero is Nearly Sold Out

[budfr]

Is this a surprise? It is Mayweather, he is the biggest Draw in boxing, the fans who b1tch and complain online don't buy tickets no way so people talking about Boycotts and all that BS they been saying the same **** for the last 2 years and Mayweather and Pacquiao are still selling a lot of PPV's

No duh. Mayweather is just overhyped by American media. Most fans are there to see Guerrero,Ponce, and Mares. Its Cinco de mayo, for crying out loud! The rest is a mix of *****s and casual fans that just hate him and wanna see him lose his O. Nobody likes someone that hugs, elbows, runs, and pushes for half the fight.

[edgarg]

My guess is that empty seats mean brokers couldn't sell all their tickets.

GBP basically transfers all the risk of unsold tix to the brokers and casinos. That way they get paid whether there is a butt in the seat or not.

In a big fight they want well promoted they sometimes will just pay the small ($4-5) seat tax to the local authorities, which is very cheap advertising to have a "sold-out" arena).

Haven't heard any talk of ths lately, people have forgotten about it.

[sicko]

No duh. Mayweather is just overhyped by American media. Most fans are there to see Guerrero,Ponce, and Mares. Its Cinco de mayo, for crying out loud! The rest is a mix of *****s and casual fans that just hate him and wanna see him lose his O. Nobody likes someone that hugs, elbows, runs, and pushes for half the fight.

HAHAHA...OK if you say so!

[edgarg]

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sir i respect your opinion , but when the hell has floyd taking any punishment? health comes first my ass he knew boxing was a dangerous sport from a young age and so if he's starting to use ****ty excuses like that then its the time to retire and stop conning the public!

A large part of the art of making money in boxing is to con the public, trainers do it by giving out misleading training bulletins (Killer McCoy is punching harder than ever..) promoters do it by the baloney they advertise to sell the seats etc. Writers do it if they like or are friendly with a manager or fighter.....

I qualify this by saying "not everyone does it', but i believe it's ingrained in the system.

[ShoulderRoll]

If only 1 ticket was given to ticketmaster to sell publicly, and the other tickets were given to casinos and brokers, you'd have no problem with golden boy proclaiming that they had a sold out show within a single minute because of strong fan demand?

I would have no problem with it because tickets for a Floyd fight in Vegas would sell out even if the casinos and brokers were somehow cut out of the loop.

If there was no fan demand then the scalpers/casinos/brokers wouldn't be asking for the number of tickets that they are.

[javalles]

I bought a ticket and not a lot of seats went on sale to the public on Ticketmaster to begin with.

I logged into ticketmaster.com right at the top of the 10:00 A.M. hour March 12th, and couldn't get a $200.00 or a $300.00 ticket at all. I think tickets are 65-75 % either sold or taken by sponsors, fighters and promoters before they make them public. How obvious that all center tickets were all gone by noon and a good amount of $1,500 corner tickets remain. It's pathetic and fustrating to support this sport, and yet we boxing fans lie to ourselves that this sport is still hot and heavy, when it's not. We try to feed ourselves with informaton as much as possible to stay positive about boxing, but the sport treats us fans like crap. It's a shame that we have been boxing fanatics since the 80's and yet we can't even make it to a big main event. But the rich people that can afford to go, get their tickets compt, basically for free.

[javalles]

Get a bigger venue for Big Main Event Fights! Simple

I logged into ticketmaster.com right at the top of the 10:00 A.M. hour March 12th, and couldn't get a $200.00 or a $300.00 ticket at all. I think tickets are 65-75 % either sold or taken by sponsors, fighters and promoters before they make them public. How obvious that all center tickets were all gone by noon and a good amount of $1,500 corner tickets remain. It's pathetic and fustrating to support this sport, and yet we boxing fans lie to ourselves that this sport is still hot and heavy, when it's not. We try to feed ourselves with informaton as much as possible to stay positive about boxing, but the sport treats us fans like crap. It's a shame that we have been boxing fanatics since the 80's and yet we can't even make it to a big main event. But the rich people that can afford to go, get their tickets compt, basically for free.

[junior gong]

Its gonna be a mismatch as well. What a rip off.

[-PBP-]

I logged into ticketmaster.com right at the top of the 10:00 A.M. hour March 12th, and couldn't get a $200.00 or a $300.00 ticket at all. I think tickets are 65-75 % either sold or taken by sponsors, fighters and promoters before they make them public. How obvious that all center tickets were all gone by noon and a good amount of $1,500 corner tickets remain. It's pathetic and fustrating to support this sport, and yet we boxing fans lie to ourselves that this sport is still hot and heavy, when it's not. We try to feed ourselves with informaton as much as possible to stay positive about boxing, but the sport treats us fans like crap. It's a shame that we have been boxing fanatics since the 80's and yet we can't even make it to a big main event. But the rich people that can afford to go, get their tickets compt, basically for free.

The $200-$300 seats don't even go up for sale on Ticketmaster.com. I think if you live in Vegas you could have went to the MGM and bought them at the box office though.

This is true for all Mayweather and Pacquiao fights.

But Cotto was a much bigger fight/event and numerous people were able to buy tickets at super steep discounts in the days leading up to the fight. So I know for Guerrero it will definitely be true. If you absolutely want to go you will be able to get tickets the week of the fight.

For Pac/Bradley the brokers were having real hard time unloading the tickets and people were getting the $1,250 seats at steep discounts. I can see Guerrero being a similar situation.

[Reloaded]

Giving away the tickets themselves isn't the point. They could do that all they want. While it sucks, it's a free market. The point is that they're characterizing it in a way that's false and misleading. And it's wrong when everyone else does it as well.

Its the oldest promoting line in the sales business , quick get yours before they all gone , you fellas hate on such insignificant things .