FAR more interest in Williams/Skelton than Calzaghe/Lacy

[JuicyJuice]

Everybody I talk to, it's all Williams/Skelton. Nobody could give a flying **** about this Calzaghe/Lacy fight. I ask everybody about Calzaghe/Lacy, and they just say stuff like "Calzaghe? Is that that sheep-shagging ***? Let's hope he dies".

I hear Sports Network are really struggling to sell tickets for this fight, only 7,000 out of 20,000 have sold so far and 95% of those were for Welsh fans making the long trip up to Manchester. I guaranteed that a million people won't tune to see Calzaghe/Lacy on ITV, but that atleast five million will tune in to see Williams/Skelton.

When you think back to the days when the ORIGINAL Judgement Day sold 47,000 tickets in one day, it really is sad. Benn/Eubank II was held in Manchester, a super-middleweight unification, and billed as Judgement Day. It sold-out in a matter of hours, and here this Calzaghe/Lacy fight has sold only 7,000 tickets in three ****ing months! Even Benn-McClellan, the last big super-middleweight fight, sold-out 12,000 in two days.

But atleast us die-hard fans get to see an intriguing match-up between two unknown but very competent fighters, I guess.

[JuicyJuice]

I'm not saying this Williams/Skelton fight is very talked about - it's not. It's just that Calzaghe/Lacy is Not talked about at all - or even ****ing known about.

To compare Williams/Skelton and Calzaghe/Lacy to Tyson/Bruno and Benn/Eubank is like trying to compare East 17 to The Beatles.

[mECHsLAVE]

Someone definitely has their facts mixed up. Because Fight News reported back when the fight was put on sale that it sold 7,000 tix in the first few days. So you're saying no tix have been sold in the past couple months? Either that or Fight News doesn't know what they're talking about.

And by the way, that's definitely a UK thing. Ain't NOBODY in the US talking about Williams, and even less than that are talking about Skelton, and even fewer than that even know who Skelton is. For US boxing fans there is no comparison between the two bouts. It's Lacy-Calzaghe 100%.

[JuicyJuice]

Someone definitely has their facts mixed up. Because Fight News reported back when the fight was put on sale that it sold 7,000 tix in the first few days. So you're saying no tix have been sold in the past couple months? Either that or Fight News doesn't know what they're talking about.

And by the way, that's definitely a UK thing. Ain't NOBODY in the US talking about Williams, and even less than that are talking about Skelton, and even fewer than that even know who Skelton is. For US boxing fans there is no comparison between the two bouts. It's Lacy-Calzaghe 100%.

I'm not talking about the US, I don't live over there so I don't know. Calzaghe is a bigger name over there than he is over here, outside of Wales nobody has heard of the guy in Britain (outside of boxing fans).

And yeah, only 7,000 have sold. That's the reports I'm getting, it's hardly suprising though. The people of Wales aren't going to travel to England, about a five-hour trip, just to support their countryman who doesn't ever bother to show his face in the media.

[slick12]

Eubank, Benn, Watson etc had personality, guts, skill, and charisma, Calzaghe don't.

[psychopath]

Williams/Skelton over Calzaghe/Lacy

Well that's only in your place, not in U.S. not in the world.

Better check all the boxing websites and find out which one is mostly being highlighted and discussed and maybe you'll get a doze of reality.

[JuicyJuice]

not in the world.

It's only being screened in UK and US.

Benn-McClellan was a far bigger fight on a world-wide scale, the whole world got excited for it.

[JuicyJuice]

Eubank, Benn, Watson etc had personality, guts, skill, and charisma, Calzaghe don't.

Well, Michael Watson didn't have any personality or charisma Nobody knew who he was before the Benn fight, and he only got press after that after being robbed in the first Eubank fight and then the tragic ending of the second Eubank fight.

Benn and Eubank though - they were on another planet to pretty much anybody in boxing, before or since, in terms of personality and charisma.

[Crumble]

I dont think this true everyone I know, all my mates know who Calzaghe is he has been on shows like question of sport and other things besides we don't have that many world champions, not just boxing fans know of him, all sports fans in this country know who he is, and more to the point everyone I have spoken to want him to win even if he is welsh.

[TheFairPole]

I'm taking Williams by late TKO!