Comments Thread For: Bob Arum Explains Further on His Anger With MGM Grand

[jcpryor]

lmao these Pacquiao fans in this thread are pathetic

[Robbie Barrett]

That's because ticketmaster doesn't get many Mayweather tickets. Most of them head straight to the broker sites. TikIQ for example has 2,128 tickets for Mayweather and 781 tickets for Pacquiao. Stubhub has 1,645 for Mayweather and 408 for Pacquiao.

The broker sites don't want tickets they can't shift.

[Kagami Taiga]

That could also be interpreted to mean the brokers anticipated a much higher demand for the Mayweather fight.

It's just him playing ****** semantics. The tickets are bought, meaning the mayweather fight is outselling the Pac fight. One fight will sell more gate and ppvs and we all know which one that is. Ppl just need to get real and stop fooling themselves.

[mrpain81]

I dunno he might be rolling on the ground laughing for the whole night. If it was me my response would literally be a recording of me laughing my ass off so hard people around me would be worried about me choking to death on my own laughter.

[Spoon23]

Makes sense.


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According to Arum, company President Todd duBoef complained to Sturm regarding the issue - and Sturm explained to duBoef that Mayweather-Maidana was struggling to sell tickets, and as a result the MGM did not remove those promotional items during Pacquiao-Bradley fight week.

Struggling to sell tickets. How can it sell. It ain't even competitive. Exhibition matches aren't going to cut it.

[hhs661]

You're putting Pacquaio in against a fella who you trashed after their first fight. Wanted an investigation to take place and even said he was ashamed after the bout took place. He's then taken his fights across the strip to the Mandalay Bay, down the road to T&M Center and even to China for Manny's last fight..

Yet he expects the MGM grand to cater to him as if he's some sort of god? As if they've forgotten that Bob stated that the MGM was deemed too small to host a super-fight.. Kick rocks, Bob

[AllBoxingAD]

That's because ticketmaster doesn't get many Mayweather tickets. Most of them head straight to the broker sites. TikIQ for example has 2,128 tickets for Mayweather and 781 tickets for Pacquiao. Stubhub has 1,645 for Mayweather and 408 for Pacquiao.

Arent the tickets on broker sites already paid for though?

[Spoon23]

It's just him playing ****** semantics. The tickets are bought, meaning the mayweather fight is outselling the Pac fight. One fight will sell more gate and ppvs and we all know which one that is. Ppl just need to get real and stop fooling themselves.

The ticket resellers bought it, but no one is buying it. It's a crappy fight. All you have to do is check the odds. Bookies tell the whole story.

[Xi_]

The broker sites don't want tickets they can't shift.

lmao.............

[DoktorSleepless]

Not sure that matters. The tickets are bought.

Arent the tickets on broker sites already paid for though?

No, not necessarily.

One anonymous source with vast knowledge of the ticket-brokering business told Maxboxing, when such robust sales are announced for a huge Vegas fight, "that means that the casinos and the brokers have verbally committed but they haven't been sold. So what they do is, they take the tickets from the casino and they'll put them on all their websites and they'll mark them up and put them for sale but they're actually not sold."

In other words, they are on consignment.

http://www.maxboxing.com/news/max-bo...-of-big-fights

If it's not clear:

Consignment is the act of consigning, which is placing any material in the hand of another, but retaining ownership until the goods are sold or person is transferred

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consignment