Comments Thread For: Wilder's Manager: If Vegas Wants Wilder-Joshua, It'll Be There

[TheBigLug]

Ok, $50. My point is in Vegas the cheap seat for a Wilder/AJ undefeated unification might be $250-350.

AJ is going to prob get more if the fight here.

Maybe so.

Worth remembering he's even more popular and a bigger star than Hatton was here in the UK, and remember how many people used to follow Hatton to Vegas for a fight?

Thousands upon thousands will travel to Vegas to see Joshua and pay the money it costs to watch the fight. So i don't think they necessarily need to rely on the the fight being in the UK to make money. PPV's will get bought and fans will travel either way.

[The Big Dunn]

Maybe so.

Worth remembering he's even more popular and a bigger star than Hatton was here in the UK, and remember how many people used to follow Hatton to Vegas for a fight?

Thousands upon thousands will travel to Vegas to see Joshua and pay the money it costs to watch the fight. So i don't think they necessarily need to rely on the the fight being in the UK to make money. PPV's will get bought and fans will travel either way.

Thats a good point as well. I'm sure AJ will have the crowd hyped as he is the draw.

[nubianpiye]

It's mad how theyre calling out Joshua but only on Wilders terms.

[yammy25]

Maybe im being too cynical.. but i just feel like boxing in US arenas and vegas casinos seems so mellow to 90k british people spending their weeks wages on coke and beer acting like a bunch of **** ...

UK crowds all day long for me..

[Madison Boxing]

Wilder's last four fights:

Barclay's 11K in attendance (capacity 18K) = 7K empty seats

Birmingham Arena 12K in attendance (capacity 15K) = 3k empty seats in his home town

Birmingham Arena 11.9K in attendance (capacity 15K) = 3k empty seats in his home town

Barclay's 12K in attendance (capacity 18K) - 6K empty seats

Joshua's last four fights:

Principality Stadium 78K in attendance (capacity 74.5K) exceeded normal capacity and set an indoor record for attendance previously held by Ali in 1978.

Wembley Stadium 90K in attendance (capacity 90K) = 0 empty seats

Manchester Arena 21K in attendance (capacity 21K) = 0 empty seats

London 02 arena 20K in attendance (capacity 20K) = 0 empty seats

If I start comparing purses in the last four fights for each fighter, some feelings are going to get hurt.

wilder the A side and fights got to happen in america doe...

[BlakBread904]

You don't follow the money trail on these fights do you? The live gate for AJ/Vlad was between 9 - 10 million. The average ticket price was near $100.

A Vegas live gate destroys that. They'd do between 20 - 40 million easy at the live gate in Vegas. But the PPV revenue is the problem with a US fight. Which is why i think it happens in the UK. But a rematch would definitely be in the US if Wilder won. They'd break the bank then.

In Bold.

AJ-Deontay is not a PPV fight yet in America. That is why this will happen in the UK.

[Bango Bang]

The fight when and where Eddie Hearns says the fight will take place at. AJ is by far the A side and holds all the leverage and controls the split and amount of that split.

Cant wait to see this man KOd again and his legs giving up on him like a new born Giraffe.

[Jkp]

I predict Hearn will use AJ vs Parker to avoid fighting Wilder.

Then use AJ vs Fury to avoid wilder again. Fury fight will never happen but they will pretend to be trying to make this fight, and then at the last minute they will say they have run out of time, and end up fighting a bum like Molina again to keep joshua "active"... and say something like "we dont have enough time to build up a wilder fight"

[The Gambler1981]

In Bold.

AJ-Deontay is not a PPV fight yet in America. That is why this will happen in the UK.

Well if that is the case it is just a matter of timing the fight properly for a pPV audience. IF the US PPV (it will be on PPV in the US) is not a focus and the numbers are not expected to be more than some icing on the cake then you don't time the fight to start at 5am GMT a a normal Vegas fight, they can easily start it much earlier and have it be on at a time that appeals to the largest audience.

They can be creative to make the most money, it really doesn't have to be a zero sum game between US and English fans.

[Straightener]

Maybe im being too cynical.. but i just feel like boxing in US arenas and vegas casinos seems so mellow to 90k british people spending their weeks wages on coke and beer acting like a bunch of **** ...

UK crowds all day long for me..

Couldn't have said it any better