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

[Scipio2009]

Where the bidness accountants at?

They broke even? Lost money? Or made some profit?

Between the take on the gate, the share of the PPV, Matchroom Sport paying for the UK TV rights, etc, Kovalev-Ward seemed to have cleared at least $10m.

$5m to Ward, $2m guarantee to Kovalev, and then Kovalev and Duva split the remaining $2m remaining proceeds on the fight.

[aboutfkntime]

b,b,b,b,b,but..... the fight will flop waaaaaah

[anonymous2.0]

Where the bidness accountants at?

They broke even? Lost money? Or made some profit?

My friend and I bet who would buy dinner the next time we ate out, so as far as I'm concerned compared to Duva, HBO, and Top Rank, I made out like a bandit.

[Scipio2009]

You really think it woulda made more money in NYC?

Hindsight being 20/20, the bar would've been $3.5m; with NYC being the media capital of the world, Andre Ward having the ability to run through the New York media circuit (and possibly even ESPN, if Kellerman would lean on it), Jay-Z likely bigging up the fight for Brooklyn, and the New York metro area being home to the largest Russian/Russian-speaking population in the US, saying that it wouldn't have is a bit premature.

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

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.

But then you are completely ignoring the insurance policy in NY.

This puts the revenue at $13 - $14m. Don't know how much HBO got from that, so hard to for me to say if it was profitable.

Bruh, you're fired. This told me nothing.

well judging by the aliments of the chair and their ability to hold up to 500lbs meaning a fat dude did not have to buy 2 seat and the fact that ward is half breed this all signals that they lost money under the current U.S. fiat money system.

What in the **** did you just say to me, son?

$3.3M gate is huge for these two. For comparison, Crawford-Postol did $750K at the gate. Golovkin-Lemieux did $2M.

Oh damn, that is pretty good then.

[Scipio2009]

NYC would done better than what they got.

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

Duva, for one of the few times in the history of her time at the head of her company, was in position to call her shot on arguably the biggest event her company has ever seen, and let that control get in the way of doing good business.

Roc Nation has the lead on the rematch, and they're unlikely to make the same mistake.

[BrometheusBob.]

But then you are completely ignoring the insurance policy in NY.

Bruh, you're fired. This told me nothing.

What in the **** did you just say to me, son?

Oh damn, that is pretty good then.

lmao **** off

Also yeah that new insurance policy thing is killer

[ausfightfan]

It makes it just about break even

[Scipio2009]

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...

Nearly 47k tickets sold, with over $5m coming in on the gate (per Dan Rafael, who went and got the numbers from the Texas commission)

try again

[killakali]

Between the take on the gate, the share of the PPV, Matchroom Sport paying for the UK TV rights, etc, Kovalev-Ward seemed to have cleared at least $10m.

$5m to Ward, $2m guarantee to Kovalev, and then Kovalev and Duva split the remaining $2m remaining proceeds on the fight.

Thats not how it works. Ward's 5 mil gusrantee is rns poblem and kovalev 2mil is ME problem. After they split the revenue 50-50 they each pay their own fighters from their own pockets. obviiously ME did a lot better. MGM isnt gving them the whole gate either