Comments Thread For: Five Years Later, A Sport Grows in Brooklyn

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By Thomas Gerbasi - Brett Yormark is a confident man. Someone doesn't get to where he has as CEO of Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment without that trait. But as he watched the first boxing event at Barclays Center, headlined by the Danny Garcia vs. Erik Morales title fight on Oct. 20, 2012, he didn't know what the future held for the sweet science in this new building...
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[Dramacyde]

Barclay's center is the East Coast MGM Grand. 2nd best Boxing arena in the U.S.

[Bronx2245]

Salute to the Barclay's! Brooklyn STAND UP!

[miked85]

Even tho I live in the Bronx so the 2 train ride up is a pain, and finding parking also sucks, having the Barclays host boxing has been a godsend, so many steady events, must be good for the last al economy too, mostly haymon events from what I gather

MSG hasn’t nearly done enough events in boxing, and I’m a knicks fan so I like the garden, better seating, but Barclays is steady with it, and dibella’s untelevised undeecards make it worthwhile to go

[H.B.Viper]

The only thing Bruce Ratner got right.
Moving the Nets to BK was bad idea(still Knick territory) , but boxing is alive, & well.

[Bob Haymon]

Barclay's is able to have so many cards because promoters like Haymon are too complacent and don't care about expanding their audience outside of major cities like New York and LA. If it wasn't for Brooklyn most PBC fighters would never see crowds bigger than 5,000. But as we saw with the recent card with Mares and LSC at StubHub oversaturating a market with mediocre fights will result in occasionally having empty arenas.

[A.K]

Barclay's center is the East Coast MGM Grand. 2nd best Boxing arena in the U.S.

They should rename it the deangello Russell house

[Steven Mccowan]

Lol. Bunch of free tix and bs fights where they have them weirdo sobriety tests once a boxer shows any signs of being hurt. Pretty much the flag football of boxing world