Froch-Groves sold out!

[PUK_MY_DANG_34]

The press conference is on at the moment on Sky Sports, and it has just been announced that it will be on Sky Box Office (PPV) and the 20.000 Phones4U arena in Manchester has been sold out in 11 minutes.

This was faster than Haye-Fury, Froch-Kessler, Haye-Klitschko, Haye-Harrison and all the other big fights that's been on in Britain or involving British fighters over the last couple of years.

Guess that squashes the notion that there was no interest in this fight.

That's brilliant news, but didn't Haye-Klitschko have over 50,000 in attendance?

[LacedUp]

Wow, really surprised. There's been absolutely no buzz here, on NSB, and i've read almost nothing about the fight in the newspapers.

Its an OK match-up; but it's not PPV worthy.

I said from the start I thought it was a PPV fight - early results prove me right.

Massive fight this , and expect the UK hype train to get behind it too. Apparently Booth and GG parted ways - not good for Groves.

[LacedUp]

That's brilliant news, but didn't Haye-Klitschko have over 50,000 in attendance?

Yes there were, but they didn't sell 20k in 10 minutes :-)

[Dirk Diggler UK]

I said from the start I thought it was a PPV fight - early results prove me right.

There's not necessarily a correlation between ticket sales and PPV buys.

[theboy_racer]

James DeGale sold that fight. The British public and the judges felt sorry for whoever that poor ugly bullied ginger kid was.

Carl Froch is selling this fight. How much were tickets?

True

Watched Degale vs Groves again and it just confirmed what i thought on the night, Degale beat him.

[Bushidō]

Thinking about betting on Groves...he's much better than the odds for this fight

[CraigM]

I dont get how this sold quicker that Froch-Kessler 2

Site was in meltdown mode and ebay is full of tickets already, so makes you second guess where the tickets have gone!

[LacedUp]

There's not necessarily a correlation between ticket sales and PPV buys.

No but I don't remember any fight not on PPV that sold 20k anywhere near as quick as this one. The closest to it would be Haye-Chisora - and that was on subscription.

It shows that the interest is huge, and when interest is huge, it warrants PPV.

[yoz]

I dont get how this sold quicker that Froch-Kessler 2

Site was in meltdown mode and ebay is full of tickets already, so makes you second guess where the tickets have gone!

Me too. Froch-Kessler II was a much bigger fight.

Groves is in for a world of hurt.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

No but I don't remember any fight not on PPV that sold 20k anywhere near as quick as this one. The closest to it would be Haye-Chisora - and that was on subscription.

It shows that the interest is huge, and when interest is huge, it warrants PPV.

How much were the tickets?