Just got an email from Kathy Duva..

[-PBP-]

Plus the fee the casino pays just to stage the event there.

Itll be Vegas. Duva will probably just try to use this situation to leverage some other stuff in negotiations.

Hopefully the Commission will be open to relax the judging requirement. I always thought one judge from each of the 2 fighters home countries and a third judge from elsewhere was standard. I didn't learn until Monday that Nevada requires in-state judges.

[The Big Dunn]

Close to NYC is a good deal but then you run into the issue of losing the ability to sell the expensive seats to the casinos who give the tickets to the Vegas high-rollers. That's the biggest advantage of staging fights in Vegas. You're nearly guarantee a sell-out for the lower bowl and ringside seats.

True, but is this a fight that really attracts that crowd? You have clubs in NYC that will be easy to get to after the fight. I think Newark is the perfect solution if the NYC insurance can't get addressed.

[The Big Dunn]

Good Option , but I'm not sure if they would have the same appeal as NYC venues..

I'm not sure if Atlantic City can hold as big a crowd as the other venues though..

Atlantic City is all but dead dude.

[Nay_Sayer]

Plus the fee the casino pays just to stage the event there.

Itll be Vegas. Duva will probably just try to use this situation to leverage some other stuff in negotiations.

They have ZERO leverage. None.

Ward won the fight and is holding ALL the cards...

[SkillspayBills]

They will do it in Vegas. At the end of the day money talks.

[The Problem Child]

I love Duva <3. Weird crush like the one I've always had for Doris Burke.

[Tom Cruise]

They have ZERO leverage. None.

Ward won the fight and is holding ALL the cards...

They do have leverage. For one they know Ward doesnt make money with anyone else at LHW. Thats leverage.

[gee73]

Let's look at all the facts:

No rematch in California and Russia, ok.
Main Events doesn't want to have it Nevada, because of their judges system.
For a card of this magnitude the insurance problem in NY isn't that big. The insurance costs are about 2700 $ per fighter. Who really needs an undercard anyway? But Roc Nation Sports sits in NY, effectively killing the chance of having it there.
It won't be in NJ eiher. Home state to Main Events.

Nevada's big advantage are the low taxes. Another suitable state might be Texas, but I don't know how many interest the fight generates there. Stacking the undercard with Latino fighters might be a solution. But going to Texas because you want to get away from 'corruption' or 'robberies'? Come on, man...
Florida could be interesting, but yeah, the last big event there was...Tarver vs. Jones III?

They can go to a lot of places, but at the end you want to fill the arena and not have some Bradley vs. Alexander situation where you don't fill the arena, and that only to avoid a 'robbery'...

[Nay_Sayer]

They do have leverage. For one they know Ward doesnt make money with anyone else at LHW. Thats leverage.

Wrong.

Ward Stevenson in Canada is a big fight.

[Tom Cruise]

Wrong.

Ward Stevenson in Canada is a big fight.

And Stevenson fights under which banner again?