Comments Thread For: Canelo vs. Chavez Jr at T-Mobile Arena - Tickets Are SOLD OUT

[Chuckguy]

ticket prices were dirt cheap especially the LA fight and still they resorted to giving away free tickets the final week and up until the day of the fight just to sell out the Forum which is small.

That's what people don't get their are levels to this. Got one idiot saying well the tickets didn't sell for canelo/khan. That fight alone drew more money in ticket sales then the 3 biggest GGG fights of his entire career combined. There is a reason why GGG has never fought in Vegas where the big boys fight or in Football and Baseball stadiums. Canelo fights strictly in Vegas or Football and Baseball stadiums when it's not in Vegas. And in those non vegas fights he fills 50,000 seats just to see him fight a unknown brit who has never fought in US or on US TV and was a massive underdog. Meanwhile GGG barely fills 16,000 seats on the westcoast even with them doing buy 1 get 1 free tickets and handing out freebies week before the fight. Selling out basketball arenas with cheap tickets isn't all that impressive. The fact tickets sales have been lackluster is a combination of no buzz for Jacobs fight and a increase in ticket prices because the promoters know they taking a loss. GGG vs Lemieux bombed and this fight you paying the headliners almost double. You not making that money up in PPV sales so they hiked up the ticket prices and you seeing that GGG isn't a big draw for people to spend that bread.

Thanks for enlightening me. Green k my friend

[Shadoww702]

ticket prices were dirt cheap especially the LA fight and still they resorted to giving away free tickets the final week and up until the day of the fight just to sell out the Forum which is small.

That's what people don't get their are levels to this. Got one idiot saying well the tickets didn't sell for canelo/khan. That fight alone drew more money in ticket sales then the 3 biggest GGG fights of his entire career combined. There is a reason why GGG has never fought in Vegas where the big boys fight or in Football and Baseball stadiums. Canelo fights strictly in Vegas or Football and Baseball stadiums when it's not in Vegas. And in those non vegas fights he fills 50,000 seats just to see him fight a unknown brit who has never fought in US or on US TV and was a massive underdog. Meanwhile GGG barely fills 16,000 seats on the westcoast even with them doing buy 1 get 1 free tickets and handing out freebies week before the fight. Selling out basketball arenas with cheap tickets isn't all that impressive. The fact tickets sales have been lackluster is a combination of no buzz for Jacobs fight and a increase in ticket prices because the promoters know they taking a loss. GGG vs Lemieux bombed and this fight you paying the headliners almost double. You not making that money up in PPV sales so they hiked up the ticket prices and you seeing that GGG isn't a big draw for people to spend that bread.

Does GGG's last 10 fights equal to what Canelo makes in 1 fight???

[Pechorin]

Ha ha, back to reality, *****es! Canelo and Jr ARE the faces of boxing.

[icha]

True but ggg sold out venues in la and ny pretty much by himself so I'm surprised the Jacobs fight isn't selling well. I'd be floored if the ppv cracks 200k

right, i dont see this much different than the lemule fight..

[Sadiqkingofko]

lol, no hate on Golovkin but Golovkin fan's need to understand Canelo is the face of boxing, Canelo sold out a bigger arena quicker than Golovkin

[bigdunny1]

Now how ****ing ****** is that comment?

Was Kell Brook shadow boxing in the ring that night?

Did he punch himself in the face Tyson Fury style and break his own eye socket?

Golovkin vs Brook, for 2 of Golovkin's world titles - 3, if you want to count the prestigious IBO belt, is what sold out the 02 and did 642k PPVs on Sky.

Dude stop embarrassing yourself. The live gate was somewhere between 2-3m. And the UK PPV is a totally different price model. Live gate not even half what Khan vs Canelo drew (7.4m) and 642K X $20 = 12.8m.

Canelo/Khan 600k X $70 = 42m
Canelo/Smith 300k X $70 = 21m

These 2 are not in the same league stop quoting UK PPVs when Brook was the one UK fans ordered to see NOT GGG and when you know it's not even not even 1/3rd the price Canelo charges. Revenues are not even in the same ballpark.

[Scipio2009]

These brain dead morons actually believe that if GGG accepted Oscar's offer now, he would still get $15 million for fighting Canelo in Sept .. whatever happens in their interim fights!

What if GGG gets KO'd by Jacobs and gets KTFO by Chavez?

"Better accept that offer now, Li'l g, Oscar might withdraw it if you or Canelo get beat."

LMAO!

If Golovkin were to get KO'd by Jacobs, or Alvarez were to get KO'd by Chavez Jr, the fight wouldn't happen; the deal would end up being voided, with the fighters going their separate ways. Nothing new.

Still, in accepting the agreement in advance of the fight, Golovkin and his camp would've had a legally binding agreement to claim Alvarez's next fight, were both fighters to keep winning in the interim.

As things stand now, it seems pretty obvious that, sans a terribly dull fight, Golovkin and K2 just ****ed themselves out of $15m.

The fact that they were able to sellout a 20k-seat building, two months in advance of the fight, makes it beyond clear that Golden Boy, were they simply looking to max out the money, mis-priced the tickets; ringside seats for $2000, compared to the $1500 it was sold for, would've comfortably been moved come fight night in May.

Alvarez-ChavezJr II is heading to AT&T Stadium in September, the tickets will likely be priced double what the Alvarez-Smith tickets were priced (amounting to $1500/$1000/$600/$400/$200/$150/$100/$75 and then $50 to close out the back-end of the building), and 100k people will be in the building.

[Scipio2009]

Canelo vs Chavez sold out a 20k seater stadium in 10 days.

GGG vs Brook sold out a 20k arena in 9 freaking mins!

If you're honestly trying to put that on Golovkin, you're a ****ing idiot.

[bigdunny1]

If GGG does soo well like his fans say why does GGG and his oppoenets always get paid like sht??? I mean Canelo's OPPONENTS alone make more than Brook and GGG did COMBINED!!!

Yup and a even better question is if GGG was so successful with cheap UK tickets and cheap UK PPVs then why isn't his fight with Jacobs at the O2 and on UK PPV? It's because nobody will pay for him unless he fights a brit. UK fans bought tickets to see and root for Brook same with the PPV. Khan who is a much bigger star in the UK then Brook was forced to come to the US to fight Canelo not the other way around. That's all you need to know GGG has to get on a plane and be Brook's B side. While Brook is the B side to Khan and Khan is the one that has to travel to Canelo's backyard. There are levels to this. Yet idiots really thinks GGG deserves similar money as Canelo? SMH

[Scipio2009]

True but ggg sold out venues in la and ny pretty much by himself so I'm surprised the Jacobs fight isn't selling well. I'd be floored if the ppv cracks 200k

What LA venue has Golovkin ever sold out? The LA Forum, according to it's own information, can seat 17,500, and Golovkin's never put more than 14k into the building