Comments Thread For: Ward-Kovalev: $3.3 Million Live Gate From 10,066 Tickets Sold

[Motorcity Cobra]

You really think it woulda made more money in NYC?

Yea. The tickets weren't as expensive as most Vegas fighters. They could've sold tickets for that price in New York. And concentrated on selling tickets to 10 million residents instead of relying on the bulk of their ticket sales to people who have to buy a plane ticket and hotel room for the weekend. And New York is the #1 media market. You'd get journalist who usually don't cover boxing covering the fight. Throw events the week of the fight. A Main Events fashion show. A Roc Nation concert. Sponsor some bars. Hold a free fight in Central Park. Have the weigh in at Time Square. Just so many more possibilities than asking people to fly out to Vegas

[Kigali]

Yea. The tickets weren't as expensive as most Vegas fighters. They could've sold tickets for that price in New York. And concentrated on selling tickets to 10 million residents instead of relying on the bulk of their ticket sales to people who have to buy a plane ticket and hotel room for the weekend. And New York is the #1 media market. You'd get journalist who usually don't cover boxing covering the fight. Throw events the week of the fight. A Main Events fashion show. A Roc Nation concert. Sponsor some bars. Hold a free fight in Central Park. Have the weigh in at Time Square. Just so many more possibilities than asking people to fly out to Vegas

NYC would done better than what they got.

Duva is too emotional(or dumb) to be a help to any fighter.

[killakali]

Kathy Duva folks. She just had to have it in Vegas at the T-Mobile. An arena even Canelo couldn't sell out. The tickets weren't that expensive for a Vegas fight. Could've been held in New York like Roc Nation wanted. The media capital of the world. Probably would've sold more PPV too. And she knew Nevada rules are local judges for their fights. In New York she could've gotten the foreign judges. This lady thinks she she's the smartest person in the room and it's always backfiring.

$1000 floor seats. Was hella expensive. Wouldn't do more than 2mil gate in ny. Plus it was mostly ward fans in vegas. They wouldn't have traveled to ny

[Motorcity Cobra]

Dude I doubt if MSG or Barclays would have made that much money.. Consider this, NYC also has insurance costs which eats into the budget..

That hurts small to medium shows. Big shows can absorb it. That's why you hear Barclays or MSG still being talked about for Jacobs v. GGG. If GGG can do $2 mil selling out MSG with 20,000 ppl. They could've sold it out too. It costs more to fly to Vegas and get a room for the weekend and 10,000 still went. If you can't get 20,000 people in a city of 10mil for a fight this big you're a horrible promoter. Roc Nation is based in New York. Main events is based in Jersey. Why the hell are they promoting a show in Vegas? Their roots & contacts are in the NY metro area

[moochi]

Every(bias)body talks about Canelo 'drawing' 51,000 people... where was the breakdown on the gate takings for that?

I heard that thousands and thousands of tickets were complimentary and that the paid tickets were cheap as chips...

[Motorcity Cobra]

$1000 floor seats. Was hella expensive. Wouldn't do more than 2mil gate in ny. Plus it was mostly ward fans in vegas. They wouldn't have traveled to ny

$1000 is not expensive for floor seats to a fight. What are you talking about?

[baya]

Kathy Duva folks. She just had to have it in Vegas at the T-Mobile. An arena even Canelo couldn't sell out. The tickets weren't that expensive for a Vegas fight. Could've been held in New York like Roc Nation wanted. The media capital of the world. Probably would've sold more PPV too. And she knew Nevada rules are local judges for their fights. In New York she could've gotten the foreign judges. This lady thinks she she's the smartest person in the room and it's always backfiring.

quit your mansplainin' ya sexist.

[BrometheusBob.]

Can you pls give a breakdown of how did it reach 14mil?
Honestly asking btw...

Update: I stopped being lazy for a min and found out how you arrived at that number

Ppv - 160k * 65$ ~ 10mil
Gate - 3.3mil

Yeah I ballparked it pretty much the same way

[LOCOMEX89]

I guess those are decent numbers. One thing to keep in mind the promotion of this fight was very poor.

Not sure if either promotional company put in real money behind the promotion which is disappointing. Both guys are 5 to 10 fighters in the world, top in the division.

It just goes to show that not all promoters but their best foot forth to promote their fighter and now how to promote worth a damn.

[baya]

I guess those are decent numbers. One thing to keep in mind the promotion of this fight was very poor.

Not sure if either promotional company put in real money behind the promotion which is disappointing. Both guys are 5 to 10 fighters in the world, top in the division.

It just goes to show that not all promoters but their best foot forth to promote their fighter and now how to promote worth a damn.

true. i remember convincing a die-hard fan on the prior friday that the ward fight was the next day. duva and rns did awful at putting this fight out to the masses.