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-The fact that you don't think Ward could've worked off 5 pounds in 3 weeks (by simply going HAM in the gym) is laughable.
-Ward still brought in over $700k on just under 8k tickets sold, compared to Golovkin bringing in $200k less on 1k more tickets (the fact that you believe that Golovkin comped zero tickets is pretty funny too). Ward brought in a similar audience for Ward-Smith as he did for Ward-Dawson (at generally higher priced tickets), so the gate number will likely be similar.
-Funny how BET's first boxing show ever gets measured to such a degree, but whatever.
-Roc Nation has already paid for 9 slots on BET, and seem committed to backing Ward as they grow their boxing brand on BET if HBO isn't interested. Ward fights one of the names highlighted, draws a massive gate at Oracle Arena or Barclays Center, and still makes $2m against a fighter coming off of win(s), while Golovkin tries to talk people into coming to see him fight N'Dam (a solid fighter, but a guy coming off of a defeat)?
-Kovalev is a road warrior for the simple reason that he doesn't draw any note on his own anywhere; Kovalev-Mohammedi likely doing $200k at the gate (regardless of how many actual tickets get printed) is proof positive of that; so Kovalev being willing to travel to Pacsal's hometown, or Braehmer's hometown for fights is less laudable than you want to push (Kovalev vs Chilemba in Russia, since Lepikhin losing to Chilemba likely pushes him out of the mix, would likely end up with similar local attention to Kovalev-Mohammedi, with HBO putting up half the money to air an afternoon show).
How Kovalev works around the WBO being unwilling to sanction title fights against wba champions, with the IBF title (Beterbiev is due to be next mandatory) and WBA title (Fonfara is due to be the next mandatory) soon to be vacated is beyond me.
Enjoy the can crushing as long as you want; i'll move on to fights that actually have my interest.
-Ward still brought in over $700k on just under 8k tickets sold, compared to Golovkin bringing in $200k less on 1k more tickets (the fact that you believe that Golovkin comped zero tickets is pretty funny too). Ward brought in a similar audience for Ward-Smith as he did for Ward-Dawson (at generally higher priced tickets), so the gate number will likely be similar.
-Funny how BET's first boxing show ever gets measured to such a degree, but whatever.
-Roc Nation has already paid for 9 slots on BET, and seem committed to backing Ward as they grow their boxing brand on BET if HBO isn't interested. Ward fights one of the names highlighted, draws a massive gate at Oracle Arena or Barclays Center, and still makes $2m against a fighter coming off of win(s), while Golovkin tries to talk people into coming to see him fight N'Dam (a solid fighter, but a guy coming off of a defeat)?
-Kovalev is a road warrior for the simple reason that he doesn't draw any note on his own anywhere; Kovalev-Mohammedi likely doing $200k at the gate (regardless of how many actual tickets get printed) is proof positive of that; so Kovalev being willing to travel to Pacsal's hometown, or Braehmer's hometown for fights is less laudable than you want to push (Kovalev vs Chilemba in Russia, since Lepikhin losing to Chilemba likely pushes him out of the mix, would likely end up with similar local attention to Kovalev-Mohammedi, with HBO putting up half the money to air an afternoon show).
How Kovalev works around the WBO being unwilling to sanction title fights against wba champions, with the IBF title (Beterbiev is due to be next mandatory) and WBA title (Fonfara is due to be the next mandatory) soon to be vacated is beyond me.
Enjoy the can crushing as long as you want; i'll move on to fights that actually have my interest.
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