T-Mobile Arena is struggling to sellout events

[Scipio2009]

Canelo Khan tickets were priced at $1,500, $1,200, $1,000, $800, $600, $400, $250 and $150. They were still 7000 short of a sellout.

The Mandalay Bay Event Center seats 12k people. Excluding the Floyd fight, how many tickets has Alvarez actually sold in Las Vegas as a headliner?

Alvarez-Khan was priced aggressively, but selling 13k seats at that price point isn't terrible.

People talk ****, but there's a reason why Floyd and MGM Resorts had/have such a great relationship with; 16k seats, priced the way that Floyd has priced things for his fights, was just about the sweet spot.

[deathofaclown]

Probably because ticket prices are pricing out the average joe on the street.

[Motorcity Cobra]

Probably because ticket prices are pricing out the average joe on the street.

Does MMA bring an average Joe crowd? Big boxing events bring out the big gamblers and stars.

[QballLobo]

T-Mobile's arena seems to be doing just as well as their ****ty cell phone service.

[Chuckguy]

I knew it when I saw it. It's a pretty walk from the mgm casino and the clcosest one is the New York New York I think or the Monte Carlo not your high end casino like the MGM. They Fawked up by choosing that spot and not right next to a casino. People are use to pissing away money at the casino and then walking 5 mins to get to their seats. Now you would have to leave a good 20-30 mins to walk to your seat

[Vasyl’s dad]

The simple point is that Kathy Duva drastically overstates her actual position in things, and that's happened for basically every negotiation that's been had.

After she couldn't even sell 1,000 tickets for Kovalev's fight at Mandalay, Duva's foolish self keeps pushing to stage a fight at a 20k-seat venue (rather than making the business move to consider staging the fight at Oracle Arena, a venue where Andre Ward is basically selling 9k tickets on the strength of just his own name, or even considering taking the fight to Barclays Center in New York).

For a person who's been in the game for as long as she's been, Duva makes a lot of bad business decisions.

Might as well have in andres living room. It will have just as many paying fans.

[Vasyl’s dad]

Does MMA bring an average Joe crowd? Big boxing events bring out the big gamblers and stars.

Kovalev vs ward is not a big boxing event. Doesn't matter what their records are, what titles they hold, how they are ranked.

They just aren't stars.

[Motorcity Cobra]

Kovalev vs ward is not a big boxing event. Doesn't matter what their records are, what titles they hold, how they are ranked.

They just aren't stars.

Ok. Why are you telling me this?

[JAB5239]

Andre Ward hasn't sold 9,000 tickets in Oakland since November 2009 when he fought Kessler. Attendance for his last two fights were below 9,000 and the Smith fight was right at 9,000 but heavily comp'd. There won't be any group-on deals in Vegas.

Duva went with MGM because they were guaranteed the site fee, which would be as much as they'd get out of Ward's luke-warm Oakland fans. Ward only sold 7,600 tix vs Dawson.

Why would tickets be comped in Oakland? Serious question. Is there something more to bring fans to the area by providing comps? Also curious where you got your information. Not calling you out, I just don't keep up with these things.

[MrMORENO]

T-mobile

pretty interesting. Boxing especially steer clear of there.

dont worry t-mobile is still #1 in the cellphone business by far!!! They dont care if its venue doesnt sell-out!!!