Ward's tickets this Saturday

[Gigantes]

Don't bother bringing facts into a discussion with that Scipio guy, he has no time for them. He is the same way with his posts on RING, facts are irrelevant to him and he just makes up his own without anything to support them.

cool, thanks for the heads up.

At one point I thought I was actually talking to Andre

[Eastcoast]

Andre Ward is not going to sell out the 20,000-seat Oracle Arena; will still end up doing significantly more at the live gate than most folks here are willing to acknowledge (have marked $1m as my expectation for this fight, and I'm still standing by that).

Andre Ward has never argued that he is a PPV star; he's simply stated that him being in PPV fights isn't as ridiculous as you seem to want to push, especially with his track record (years off withstanding).

Beyond that, Golovkin wasn't able to "sell out" a 12,000-seat arena until days to the fight (and I have no doubt that K2 comped tickets for that event, too). lol

$1mill? He did $277k for Rodriguez.

[Brickyardigan]

I wish Ward would had partnered up with Al Haymon and Mayweather it's annoying how people belittle such talent.

[Scipio2009]

Ticket sales were poor.

Boxingscene writer Steve Kim's twitter:

https://twitter.com/steveucnlive/status/611974496442957824

https://twitter.com/steveucnlive

There's nothing in the Twitter post that you're trumpeting that says anything about tickets doing poorly; for all the people who don't want to waste the time looking at the dumb post, the tweet links to an image of a pull tab that shows an offered ticket discount for Ward's church, a ticket discount offered by Shoe Palace, and a third discount that I don't even want to go back to look for.

(All of which are access code protected and also limited to only certain sections of tickets, which Steve Kim failed to even acknowledge)

Then again, that doesn't mesh with the story that you're seeking to present, so whatever floats your boat.

This may take a bit of effort, but there's a far better way to actually gauge how ticket sales are doing, and Ticketmaster will help you with this way too; go to the event site, set the search to 'Best Available', and then look, price point to price point, where you could be able to purchase 4 seats to the fight;

$250: Section B, Row 11 [second to last row of the ringside seats]
$125: Section 102, Row 10
$90: Section 111, Row 15
$60: Section 104, Row 15
$30: Section 111, Row 20

$125-$30 tickets all in the lower bowl



would seem as if the tickets are doing just fine.

[BOXEO _]

Ticket sales were poor.

Boxingscene writer Steve Kim's twitter:

https://twitter.com/steveucnlive/status/611974496442957824

https://twitter.com/steveucnlive

Ouch.......

[BOXEO _]

I wish Ward would had partnered up with Al Haymon and Mayweather it's annoying how people belittle such talent.

Ward hasn't done shyt since 2011. We don't even know if the talent is still there. Especially now that he's a Light Heavyweight.

[Scipio2009]

"never argued that he is a PPV star" lmao really? you've never heard him?

and since you're bringing up GGG into the convo, all I know is someone from KAZAKSTAN, is more popular than Ward in the US.

Funny you mention "I have no doubt" without showing the FACTS.

Golovkin has been featured on HBO for at least six fights, with the HBO machine trying to hype him as the second coming of Marvin Hagler while he's busy can crushing, and he had to parade himself as being Mexican to put 9,000 people into Stubhub and 12,000 into the Forum (though there seems to be no source of information to see how many of those people actually bought their ticket).

Ward put 10,000 people into Oracle Arena (and sold near 8,000 tickets for a gate over $700k) for his first fight on HBO [after 5 fights on Showtime Championship Boxing (well before the Mayweather jump), and another six on ShoBox], just by being himself.

[Scipio2009]

$1mill? He did $277k for Rodriguez.

In Ontario, CA for a fighter from the Bay Area, against a Dominican fighter based out of the Northeast, with apparently no real LA-area promotional effort to speak of.

Ward is again fighting in the Bay Area, still has tons of support in the Bay Area, Roc Nation is actually marketing the fight on the ground, and the whole region is still in a flutter over the Warriors winning the NBA championship.

The Dawson fight was definitely a while ago, but Ward brought in over $700k for that fight. Why not $1m?

[Mitchell Kane]

Golovkin has been featured on HBO for at least six fights, with the HBO machine trying to hype him as the second coming of Marvin Hagler while he's busy can crushing, and he had to parade himself as being Mexican to put 9,000 people into Stubhub and 12,000 into the Forum (though there seems to be no source of information to see how many of those people actually bought their ticket).

Ward put 10,000 people into Oracle Arena (and sold near 8,000 tickets for a gate over $700k) for his first fight on HBO [after 5 fights on Showtime Championship Boxing (well before the Mayweather jump), and another six on ShoBox], just by being himself.

So what you're saying is that Golovkin draws similar crowds in Southern California to what Andre Ward draws in his hometown?

And you can try to make it seem like Ward was some unknown, relegated to SHO...but he'd fought on HBO before then...he was an American Olympic gold medalist. It's not like nobody knew him. And he's fought numerous times throughout his career in the Bay Area in both Oakland and San Jose.

[daggum]

ward was never a big draw. the dawson fight was his high point at 7000. froch, abraham, rodriguez did 4000-5000. this fight against smith they are giving away tickets. people came to see him and instead of his numbers going up like ggg they went down which means they didn't like what they paid for.