Ward vs. Kovalev tickets sales

[MDPopescu]

We all know that Kovalev doesn't sell tickets.
Ward will sell them all, instead.

[_Maxi]

The lie about Ward not being a draw. And even if it were true, which it isn't, why should that have stopped a good fight from happening? Kovalev isn't a draw but the fight is happening

#AndreWard Oracle Arena attendance last night 8653
March vs. Barrera 8532.
June 2015 vs. Smith 9016.
Sept 2012 vs. Dawson 8919.#boxing

— Jed I. Goodman (@jedigoodman) August 7, 2016

Sergey's first and only Vegas fight

HBO fight night about to get started! Look who's in attendance #kovalev #HBOboxing pic.twitter.com/FppjKGU4am

— Jimmy Johnston (@ITisJimmy) June 28, 2015

.@LEllerbe I was ringside and never received the attendance figure, but it couldn't have been more than 3,000

— Mike Coppinger (@MikeCoppinger) February 10, 2016

No one said that the fight didn't have to happen because "Ward wasn't a draw"... wtf. Even if it was true that he isn't a draw, the fight should still happen.

If a fighter is a draw or not is used to split the purses.

[Southpawology]

it should sell alot of tickets its the only great fight made in boxing right now every other fight is a mismatch

[Holystroke3]

GGG is selling out Vs monroe, wade, etc.

Ward vs Kovalev is obviously gonna sell. How many tickets did ward sell vs brand or vs barrera or vs smith?

it isn't too hard isn't it?

Golovkin is fighting Monroe, Wade, etc while Ward moved up to fight a top 5 p4p guy

[LaidOut]

Brand: 8,653
Barrera: 8,532
Smith: 9,016

Slow down. Someone asked how many tickets were sold. You're providing the number of folks in attendance. Remember that they gave away crap loads of free tickets just prior to those fights. So no, Ward didn't 'sell' all those tickets.

[Jsmooth9876]

Good for them but I'm expecting you back when GGG-Canelo sells out Texas stadium and makes like $5 million gate... Or do you have some sort of agenda?

[Motorcity Cobra]

Good for them but I'm expecting you back when GGG-Canelo sells out Texas stadium and makes like $5 million gate... Or do you have some sort of agenda?

First of all GGG-Canelo won't be held in Texas stadium. Big fights are in Vegas, not Texas smh. And GGG-Canelo in Vegas would do close to a $15 mil gate. You don't even know the economics of boxing so don't speak to me unless you know what you're talking about.

[M Bison]

How many **** threads are we really willing to allow?

I mean this is kinda getting out of hand Motorcity constantly forces ****ty threads out on a daily man's clearly got absolutely nothing better to do sad little cretin.

[King Jaffe Joffer]

GGG is selling out Vs monroe, wade, etc.

Ward vs Kovalev is obviously gonna sell. How many tickets did ward sell vs brand or vs barrera or vs smith?

it isn't too hard isn't it?

I went to both those fights and it wasnt sold out. Mostly filled but it was plenty of empty seats. Especially nosebleed section

[Motorcity Cobra]

No one said that the fight didn't have to happen because "Ward wasn't a draw"... wtf. Even if it was true that he isn't a draw, the fight should still happen.

If a fighter is a draw or not is used to split the purses.

Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler told BoxingScene a few weeks back that they’d still like to fight Chavez or even Carl Froch but felt that Ward didn’t make financial sense at the moment.

"If the pay-per-view for the Lemieux fight is what we think it should be, Gennady would deserve more than 50% against Ward, considering Ward has barely fought outside of California," Loeffler said. "So it’s unreasonable to ask us to commit to that right now."

JOE CALZAGHE vs. BERNARD HOPKINS Attendance: 14,345
Gate: $11,636,400.00

Ward vs. GGG would've did better than that. $15 mil at a 50/50 split would've been the biggest paycheck and biggest PPV for GGG. This was the biggest fight that was possible to make. He's not gonna make that unless Canelo fights him and even he and Sanchez don't think that fight is happening