Comments Thread For: Mayweather-Maidana Sells Over 14K Tickets, $12 Mill Gate

[tibbar]

Its only mind conditioning, trying to influence trending, its only casinos buying the tickets to give away as promos to its high roller patrons.

[turkas]

it would be if it was the fans getting the chance to go which with the prices that high wouldn't suggest its for the fans, the casino system is based to keep the rich happy and see a fight after spending a bomb in the casino.

All of the ticket categories were on sale to the general public, but the $350 ticks which are only about 250 of anyways. I agree this fight is over priced, but there were plenty of tickets available for fans to purchase at ticketmaster. And thousands did just that when they went on sale. So it's not like every ticket gets sold to a broker or given to the casino.

It's not a real reflection of the state of the game though. Maidana-Floyd isn't a big selling fight, this is just the same group of people scratching each other's backs and in that regard it is a reflection of the state of the game - Casino/high roller focus.

How is it not a reflection of Floyd? Pacquiao and other stars sell massive amounts to ticket brokers too, but yet if you look at Pac Bradley 2 there are still thousands of tickets available on ticketmaster. To simply claim this isn't fans buying tickets is just false.

For instance his fight against Ortiz has almost 4,000 unsold tickets. So they have already sold more ticket than that fight did. Sure several thousand of them were to Brokers, but this fight has already sold more than the Ortiz did. Did they not sell them to brokers for that fight or something? Or maybe, just maybe, fans are actually buying a lot of these tickets.