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And yet Bum-love-kin had no problems with going to 168 for Baby Chavez and Froch.
Sounds like a DUCK to me...Comment
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Rigo wants loma to meet half way
Just like golovkin wants ward...
Two super fights all these guys gotta do is meet half way..Comment
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That'd be a logical place to start from (with both sides going through the economics that each party brings to the table, together, to lock down the actual final event split), but that would've actually made the fight likely for even Winter 2015 (December-February 2016) and it seems clear how ready to make that fight Team Golovkin has shown themselves to be, lol.Comment
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Ward brings more money at the gate than Golovkin and that's not even with much doubt; Loeffler finally acknowledging that Golovkin did $500k on the 9k+ that he put into Stubhub (similar pricing structure was used for the move to The Forum, so the gate increased some, but likely not by that much), compared to the $700k that Andre Ward brought in his for his just prior fight at Oracle Arena (announced attendance for Ward-Smith was about on par with Ward-Dawson, at a higher pricing structure for the tickets, leading me to believe that the gate increased).
This is an extreme example, but Floyd Mayweather Jr did $12m on 16,000 tickets for the Guerrero fight, while Saul "Canelo" Alvarez did $2m on 40,000 tickets.
who's the A-side at the gate? It's obvious, but I just want to see an acknowledgement.
You add that both Ward and Golovkin delivered similar HBO numbers for their fights (people trying to use the rating from BET's first fight telecast, that was competing against a primetime NBC telecast on the East Coast [as the fight was aired 10pm EST/PST] is laughable. You add to that the reported Ward numbers (http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=681320) were counted across the entire 2-hour broadcast; included in the Nieves-Young fight, the Nipsey Hussle performance, and the dead time from the fight card ending early), and you miss on that point, too.
Why would Ward have to accept being B-side to anything when the objective evidence doesn't point to that being the case in any other position than Golovkin being an HBO darling?
There's not a fight where Golovkin is the "A-side" and he can bring in $700k at the gate, a figure that Andre Ward has been able to likely pass twice so far (and a figure that is likely now the baseline expectation for his gates out of his homebase in the 18k-seat Oracle Arena in Oakland, going forward)Comment
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350k was the avg audience over the entire 2-hour broadcast; boxing audiences seem to generally grow over the telecast, and Nieves-Young and the music performance preceded the fight, so I expect that the audience for the actual Ward-Smith fight was well beyond the avg audience for the full show.
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What if ward fights GGG in moscow?
Then who makes the better live gate?
Ward only fights in oakland.
He needed froch for the AC fight. Have ward go to vegas and see whats up. Ward does bradley numbers in reality.
A side spoke. 164 50 50 take it or duckComment
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Team Golovkin were the ones, running around with the "no one wants to fight him" and "he whoops every fighter 154-168" nonsense, only to immediately ask for a catchweight once the 168 kingpin pulls their card.
Name one other catchweight that's being talked of by a fighter who talked as much **** as Team Golovkin did. lolComment
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To try and act as if Andre Ward didn't sell any tickets in Oakland, when he was already able to sell 8k tickets for the Dawson fight in 2012 (over 10k people in the building, so some tickets were given away, in an 18k-seat building no less) is downright disrespectful; LA-based Nipsey Hussle playing two songs, which was his entire participation in the event, didn't move tickets either.
Hear NSB tell the story, and you'd get an entirely different picture.Comment
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