Although the overall attendance for the Canelo Alvarez-Liam Smith was 51,240 – most of the three cards held at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas -- paid attendance was 46,115 (including the 8,143 in the stadium's suites), the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation told ESPN.com on Thursday in response to an open records request related to their Sept. 17 event. The live gate was $5,037,900. There were 5,125 complimentary tickets given away. In 2010, Manny Pacquiao headlined two cards at the stadium. His welterweight world title fight against Joshua Clottey drew an announced crowd of 50,994 with a paid attendance of 46,371. Pacquiao's junior middleweight title fight against Antonio Margarito, in which Pacquiao won a vacant belt to become the only fighter in boxing history to win a world title in eight weight classes, drew an announced crowd of 41,734 with a paid attendance of 30,437.
Very interesting. For the record, Canelo-Cotto posted a live gate of $12.5m, Canelo-Khan live gate was $7.4m, while Golovkin-Lemieux live gate was little over $2M
Thus in total, both the live gate and the PPV viewership has sufffered.
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