When was the last time 80K+ people showed up for a fight?

[MaskedMurderer]

When was the last time 80K+ people showed up for a fight?

just wondering I know JCC did like 100K or something in Mexico City Back in the day, but is that the last time someone broke 80K in attendence?

[ßringer]

80K is a pretty lofty number. I can think of fairly recent fights that managed to pull in 50K+, but nothing that comes close to 80K.

Klitschko/Haye, perhaps? I know those attendance numbers had to be huge, but I don't think it was 80K.

[yoz]

Hmmm,

Tony Zale vs. Billy Pryor at Juneau Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, in 1941 - 135,000
Max Schmeling vs. Walter Neusel at Sandbahn Lokstedt, Hamburg, Germany, in 1938 - 100,000
Len Harvey vs. Jock McAvoy at White City, UK, in 1939 - 90,000
Len Harvey vs. Jack Peterson at White City, UK, in 1934 - 90,000

[MaskedMurderer]

80K is a pretty lofty number. I can think of fairly recent fights that managed to pull in 50K+, but nothing that comes close to 80K.

Klitschko/Haye, perhaps? I know those attendance numbers had to be huge, but I don't think it was 80K.

Yeah, what made me think of this was I was actually watching a david haye interview right now and he said he was just glad to be there cause 80K+ attendance doesn't happened every day he cant even remember the last time something like that happened and I was like neither can I.

david haye interview im talking about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_0N8qXomco

[yoz]

80K is a pretty lofty number. I can think of fairly recent fights that managed to pull in 50K+, but nothing that comes close to 80K.

Klitschko/Haye, perhaps? I know those attendance numbers had to be huge, but I don't think it was 80K.

Think Haye vs. Klitschko was about 50,000

[Check_hooks]

Besides Cowboy stadium, is there even a stadium in America that can seat 80,000?

[ßringer]

Think Haye vs. Klitschko was about 50,000

I figured the same, but in that interview Haye is saying something astronomical.

Wonder if anybody has the official attendance numbers. I googled, but came up emptyhanded.

[RSBonos]

Calzaghe v Kessler was 55k.

The two Pac fights at Cowboys were around 40k.

[ßringer]

Besides Cowboy stadium, is there even a stadium in America that can seat 80,000?

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

You'll notice that the vast majority are football stadiums.

Boxing could court venues like that for bigger fights, but I don't think boxing would ever fill those types of stadiums again.

For starters, who the **** wants to go to Ann Arbor or Knoxville to see a fight?

Secondly, boxing appears to have an exclusive unwritten contract with the city of Las Vegas as far as the biggest fights are concerned.

[Mitchell Kane]

Oscar did what, 27,000 against Forbes and 45,000 against Charpentier?

Whitaker-Chavez was around 60,000 I think.