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Stevenson is the lone boxer on that card "from" Quebec, and he's essentially out of Montreal and not Quebec City, where this card was held. This was his first card in Quebec City, and he drew that number. This is also the first year in which Stevenson's really begun to break out as a star, and not just a prospect. Despite that, in his first fight after beating Chad Dawson, against a fighter coming off a loss in Tavoris Cloud — and in Montreal, where Lucian Bute is king first followed by Jean Pascal — Stevenson drew 9,122.
That will only grow.
Contrast that with Judah-Malignaggi, which had two guys from Brooklyn, had the fight in Brooklyn, had tickets between $25 and $250, had three world title bouts on the undercard, had the main event between two guys admittedly on the decline in their careers but otherwise with good name recognition, and it still sold nearly 4,000 fewer tickets than Judah's fight with Danny Garcia.
That's also less than Danny Garcia vs. Erik Morales, Broner-Malignaggi and Hopkins-Cloud. Judah-Malignaggi had the smallest announced attendance of the five cards held at Barclays Center.
Meanwhile, a guy like Fernando Guerrero was selling 5,000 to 6,000 tickets in the sparsely populated chicken farm area of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, while Judah and Malignaggi do less than 10,000 in a metropolitan area of 20 million.
As I wrote, it's a decent figure for boxing in the United States, but it's fair to think that it should've done more.
Stevenson is the lone boxer on that card "from" Quebec, and he's essentially out of Montreal and not Quebec City, where this card was held. This was his first card in Quebec City, and he drew that number. This is also the first year in which Stevenson's really begun to break out as a star, and not just a prospect. Despite that, in his first fight after beating Chad Dawson, against a fighter coming off a loss in Tavoris Cloud — and in Montreal, where Lucian Bute is king first followed by Jean Pascal — Stevenson drew 9,122.
That will only grow.
Contrast that with Judah-Malignaggi, which had two guys from Brooklyn, had the fight in Brooklyn, had tickets between $25 and $250, had three world title bouts on the undercard, had the main event between two guys admittedly on the decline in their careers but otherwise with good name recognition, and it still sold nearly 4,000 fewer tickets than Judah's fight with Danny Garcia.
That's also less than Danny Garcia vs. Erik Morales, Broner-Malignaggi and Hopkins-Cloud. Judah-Malignaggi had the smallest announced attendance of the five cards held at Barclays Center.
Meanwhile, a guy like Fernando Guerrero was selling 5,000 to 6,000 tickets in the sparsely populated chicken farm area of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, while Judah and Malignaggi do less than 10,000 in a metropolitan area of 20 million.
As I wrote, it's a decent figure for boxing in the United States, but it's fair to think that it should've done more.
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