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

[Spoon23]

Only in boxing can you give away all the tickets to the casino, and to the sexondary brokers, and than claim you sold out or sold such and such amount of tickets.

I bet less than 3/4 of those tickets did golden boy Actuslly receive money for from a purchasing customer.

Such a crock of ****.

Exactly. It's the brokers and secondary sellers who have to really sell it. This doesn't mean anything. Ppv numbers will tell. The thing is Golden boy never brings out the official ppv numbers. Just their padded version every time lol

[Spoon23]

This is BS. They are trying to make feel people as if this is a sell out to entice people into getting excited about this fight. Reality is nobody is interested and excited about this fight coz Floyd the lil p ussy has picked a mismatch and a very sh itty easy opponent. This fight will be flop and even Floyd fans will boycott this one...

Smoke and mirrors, at the end of the day Floyd gets paid and showtime loses money again. This is all smoke and mirrors.

[Cinci Champ]

Fanboys, watch Mayweather fights not other boxing fights. And a loss is a loss.

Crazy deal by Showtime, Maidana better do over 1.4m or the Showtime execs won't be happy.

i dont know about all that ya if ur the ppv king your gonna have non hardcore boxing fans but to say all his fans only watch mayweather well your lying to yourself.

[dc3383]

This is funny so Casino only buy tickets when Floyd fighting now; put it like this the MGM Grand was packed the last two times I was there and it will be again May 3rd. Floyd tickets are double the price of every other fighter and he still manages to do better numbers.

[mrjoeblive]

It looks like Showtime will be taking another loss this May

no where close to the loss hbo took with that joke of a fight pac vs little rios. plus showtime is still counting the money from the richest fight in boxing history, floyd vs canelo. HBO called begging floyd to come back saying they made the biggest mistake in boxing history by letting boxings cash cow gwt away.

[mrjoeblive]

Pacquiao vs Marquez has been the greatest series of fights in boxing history.

Quite a few people didn't buy Rios vs Pacquiao fight by comparison.


Floyd could fight Josie Harris again and the fanboys will still pay 80 bucks to see it

REALLY????????? no i know for sure that you are really drunk or high on cheap drugs. there is no way in blazes pac vs Jmm is the "greatest series in the history of boxing" you my friend are deluded!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Foreign Soil]

Lol Floyd fans getting excited over Casino buys. So easy to please - that's why they're Floyd fans.

[secondsin]

Lol Floyd fans getting excited over Casino buys. So easy to please - that's why they're Floyd fans.

The casino/brokers will probably sell most, if not all of the tickets anyway so the end result is the same:a packed stadium.

[turkas]

There not giving them away but there not selling them either.

It's a pretty intricate system. I'll break down the basics.

The majority of the tickets are either given to secondary brokers or the casino. The secondary brokers sell the tickets at a higher price and haymon and whoever else get a piece.

The casino takes a large amount to give to there favorite clients. The casino doesn't want me and you to have the tickets. They want Pierre the French millionaire who gambles millions and sniffs ******* and screws hookers for a week.

That's why the casino pays for fights, and all the big fights are in Vegas.

Now when the secondary brokers don't sell out, they either will have to cough up some $ for some of the tickets or the casino will agree to take the rest, or magically they'll appear back in the box office.

That's why every Floyd fight is a instant sell out. And why the arena is always empty until the main event. These gamblers don't give a crap about boxing.

And the promoters don't need to worry about ticket sales, everyone wins...




But the real fans...

That's not how it really works either. Brokers aren't given tickets, they buy them like everyone else, but they usually buy them at a higher price than everyone else does. Then they pass that rate onto the customer and then some.

[turkas]

1.4m PPV Showtime need to hit to be in profit.

I don't think they will hit it.

So when he fought the Ghost the profit threshold was 1 million, why only a year later has it increased by 400K buys?

You're completely full of ****.