Comments Thread For: Sergey Kovalev vs. Andre Ward Likely Heading To Las Vegas

[Chuckguy]

This fight is going to bomb if it's on PPV.

Bro if they can get 250k+ that's winning
Neither guy is known by the casuals who run the ppv buys

[bambam182]

Bro what excuses ?
Watch a fawking Ward fish dumb sh it!
If Ward beats kovo then props to him what can anyone say?

you guys will all make excuses, he was running he was clinching he was head butting, he was this and that ducking ducking ducking ducking.

[Mr.Fantastic]

Bro if they can get 250k+ that's winning
Neither guy is known by the casuals who run the ppv buys

That fight should be on regular HBO.

[LomaUsykKlichko]

Can't wait for this fighg, Will be rooting for Kova but think Ward might edge it, but then Kovas got that ko power just cannot wait for this fight.

[LomaUsykKlichko]

That fight should be on regular HBO.

There's no way they can put it on reg HBO they have to pay both these guys a lot of money

[Mr.Fantastic]

There's no way they can put it on reg HBO they have to pay both these guys a lot of money

There's the problem.

[SouthPawHitman]

is ward having another tune up or what? i don't think it would be smart to go directly to fight KOvalev without one

Hopefully cause Dre is going to have to be almost perfect to beat Kovalev. He looked good vs. Barrera but was still caught a few too many times with shots he shouldn't have taken and KOvalev sure as hell ain't no damn Barrera.

I'm still riding wit Dre like always but I think he might have to get off the canvas to win.

[Scipio2009]

21k seats is a pretty big callout for Ward's Vegas debut (while also remembering that Kovalev sold less than 1k tickets for his fight in Las Vegas).

Mandalay Bay's Events Center is 1)in Las Vegas, 2)is tied in with MGM Resorts, which should lead to efforts to push the event across Vegas, and 3) is a 12k-seat venue, a building that Kovalev-Ward should be able to pack in [Ward already sells over 8k tickets, at market rates, in his homebase of Oakland, and folks will travel].

Worse thing that could happen is that Main Events pushes for the event to be at the T-Mobile Arena and aren't able to draw any people, to the event that they are the lead promoter for.

[Scipio2009]

Vegas could do bad. Do these guys have fans that'll travel? Kovalev bombed vs Mohammedi in Vegas, given that was in the summer and poor opponent. Ward has to comp his way up to get 10k to show up in Oakland. Neither RN or ME have strong enough roster for a big undercard. Kind of surprised they didn't pick Staples or the Forum, must've been the site fee from MGM was too good.

Andre Ward has consistently near 8k tickets for his fights.

Why you continue to act like Ward is still trying to move 2k tickets at $20 a pop is laughable.

[Scipio2009]

What kind of PPV numbers are people expecting for this? Personally I think this is one of the best fights to be made in years, a true super fight, but I doubt the numbers will reflect that.

Depending on how hard HBO/RocNation/Main Events pushes the event (ie. does HBO commit a 2-3 episode "24/7" to the fight, does Andre Ward commit to carrying the marketing push for the fight [on New York urban radio, through the ESPN circuit, with Rosie Perez on The View again, etc], does Sergey Kovalev leave his comforts to push the fight to the various Russian communities in the US [New York and San Francisco being the two largest Russophile/Russian speaking communities/cities in the nation], etc), 350k-450k PPV buys at $50 isn't a ridiculous number to aim for, imo.

Depending on what the prices potentially look like, I may end up making the trip out for the fight.