COMMENTS THREAD FOR: Bob Arum's Stadium in Las Vegas: Plans Underway?

[LinealChampion]

held 16k ... dunno how long it took to build but seemed like *** all time ... I mean like a couple of weeks. MAX

Arum will say for it to be safely done, maybe 6-7 months, while Pac fights Vargas and May fights Khan, and something will hold the stadium being built up.

And this will roll around to 2016.

This is just sick

[Fists_of_Fury]

I have built entire houses by myself in 1-2 days so I know it is isn't impossible. Just requires a lot of focus and determination.

Lmao! What a ****ing idiotic clown! With a ****load of workers you couldn't put up and finish a decent size pre fabbed house moron. Oh I forgot you probably live in a 3rd world country and what you consider a house I call a shed.

[Francis M.]

Here we go with all the PAC bashers. This is their reaction to their hero Floyd responding to PAC's open challenge with a video of PAC getting Ko'd by marquez. This deflection by Floyd drives home the point that he don't want none.... He or PAC don't have a fight lined up. PAC's team is talking to CBS execs and Floyd shoots it down. Dude don't even want to sit and would rather call PAC's team a bunch of liars re: no negotiations...lol

[bigjavi973]

They just built a temporary stadium in Belfast for Frampton's last fight against Martinez. It's not some impossible feat.

Whether Arum was just blowing hot air or not is up for debate but people were talking as if it defied the laws of physics or something.

People have been giving me a hard time, mainly beater_of_ass, cuz i told him that an outdoor stadium isnt completely imaginary and that more people =more gate revenue etc etc etc...

[Kenny Blankenship]

You could put up an outdoor stadium in a matter of weeks. All it is is collapsible bleachers, a ring and floor seats. They aren't pouring fuc*in' concrete and s*it. It's a temporary seating facility that can be put up and broken down in weeks.

Some of the biggest fights in the history of the sport have taken place in ****in' casino parking lots via temporary stadium. Fights like these have all been staged at various hotel properties like Caesars, Riviera, The Dunes and The Hilton. Holmes-Cooney took place outside at Caesars in Vegas, in the parking lot, it had 30,000 people in attendance so stop talking about how it hasn't ever been done, shouldn't be done or does't need to be done. The only people saying that are Fl*m*s coming up with excuses not to have a fight. Ali-Holmes took place in the parking lot there as well, they built a temporary stadium that held 25,000, here's the article from a Nevada paper on the fight and the temporary stadium:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1908&dat=19800818&id=eHkpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ftQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4280,4059634

You want a stadium that holds at least 30,000 so that you could get a ticket that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. If this ever went down at the MGM Grand Garden Arena tickets would never even go on sale to the public.

Stop trying to say there's no reason to build a temporary outdoor stadium. There is a reason, it's called money. It's been done plenty of times before, no reason they can't do it again.

[-Kev-]

They just built a temporary stadium in Belfast for Frampton's last fight against Martinez. It's not some impossible feat.

Whether Arum was just blowing hot air or not is up for debate but people were talking as if it defied the laws of physics or something.

I think people talk negatively about it because there's already a ****load of stadiums in the U.S. There's no need to create a new one. Just choose that is available for the date and it's located in a lucrative venue. It's just unnecessary.

[bigjavi973]

Mayweather/Haymon put together th 2 biggest fights in history and are the A side. Arum needs to take a back seat he isn't calling the shots here.

damn that sucks that pacquiao didn't fight two mexicans with a huge following on MEXICAN HOLIDAYS!!! Smart marketing by al haymon. It takes two to tango, not just floyd. If so, his ppv numbers wouldn't dip below 1 mil, oh wait...

[ReIoaded]

I think people talk negatively about it because there's already a ****load of stadiums in the U.S. There's no need to create a new one. Just choose that is available for the date and it's located in a lucrative venue. It's just unnecessary.

Yes. But, Las Vegas doesn't have a huge arena. A lot of people, myself included want the fight to be in Vegas. I don't know for sure, but I don't think I've ever seen or heard of a venue in Las Vegas that seats more than 16,000.

[Kenny Blankenship]

Yes. But, Las Vegas doesn't have a huge arena. A lot of people, myself included want the fight to be in Vegas. I don't know for sure, but I don't think I've ever seen or heard of a venue in Las Vegas that seats more than 16,000.

Sam Boyd Stadium where the UNLV football team plays. It holds 36,800 with temporary seats added holds 40,000.

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

Only problem is it's a little far off the strip. The whole point of holding a fight in a casino parking lot is to keep the gamblers on the casino property so they can gamble before and after the fight. If you send the gamblers half an hour off the strip to see the fight they probably aren't coming back to spend money at your casino afterwards, who knows where they'll end up and that site fee you gave to the promoters won't be worth ****.

[Kagami Taiga]

There will be no temporary stadiums built over the winter and the fight will not be held in texas. Moving on.