Comments Thread For: Wilder-Ortiz is Biggest U.S. Heavyweight Fight Since Lewis-Klitschko

[N/A]

Even if you don't consider the top draws in boxing. How is Wilder a draw?

Because he sells more tickets and garners more viewership than 99% of the boxers in this country. Let's say he ends up selling 12,500 tickets next Saturday and breaks the all time boxing attendance record at Barclays, sure it's nothing compared to the numbers Canelo can do, but it's still better than almost everybody else. Kovalev is going to draw 3,000 people the same night. Ward vs. Kovalev II only sold 6,000 tickets. So once again, as always, PBC fighters are held to a double standard.

Dude cant sell out his own hometown

Sell outs are irrelevant. If a fight sells out, it just means it should have been held in a larger venue. Tickets sold and dollars generated are much more important than whether a fight sold out. "SOLD OUT!" is just something that impresses the public because the public is illogical.

[vitali1999]

Keep hoping and praying bigot. Ortiz is going up sleep!

We'll see who's praying Saturday dummy

[LITTLE JOE]

Sell outs are irrelevant. If a fight sells out, it just means it should have been held in a larger venue. Tickets sold and dollars generated are much more important than whether a fight sold out. "SOLD OUT!" is just something that impresses the public because the public is illogical.

I have to agree with this.
Old example but when Thomas Hearns fought Roberto Duran which was a very appealing fight,it was not sold out and even lost money from what I heard. I'm sure thee are plenty of other examples but that one came to mind.

[Robbie Barrett]

Because he sells more tickets and garners more viewership than 99% of the boxers in this country. Let's say he ends up selling 12,500 tickets next Saturday and breaks the all time boxing attendance record at Barclays, sure it's nothing compared to the numbers Canelo can do, but it's still better than almost everybody else. Kovalev is going to draw 3,000 people the same night. Ward vs. Kovalev II only sold 6,000 tickets. So once again, as always, PBC fighters are held to a double standard.




Sell outs are irrelevant. If a fight sells out, it just means it should have been held in a larger venue. Tickets sold and dollars generated are much more important than whether a fight sold out. "SOLD OUT!" is just something that impresses the public because the public is illogical.

The record is 16,500

[nacho daddy]

What fight would you say was bigger in the United States since Lewis-Klitschko?

lewis was way better then wilder and Vitali was way better then ortease. in a s h it HW division it is made out to be a big fight

[N/A]

The record is 16,500

you are correct. my mistake. forgot about thurman-garcia breaking the record last year.

[WallabeeKing]

What you just make up your own reality??He was on THE ***EN PLANE you troll.And PEDetkin failed test simple as that.Thet don't even deny they failed just saying it was still in his system since before it was banned even though he passed a test in between.Now go back to your Joshua poster and do what you do.If you were a REAL fan you would be rooting for BOTH(Wilder,Joshua) as that's in the best interest of boxing.But instead you just bash his #1oppenent and make sure to give your HERO no credit IF he even fights Wilder and wins since he is sooo bad.

LMAO, this muhfucca right here. I'm a fan of the sport itself, I don't fanboy over muhfuccas like you do.. But let's talk the Povetkin situation, he didn't fail a test. He tested positive for a miniscule amount of meldonium (which is heart medication for fuccing sakes) and didn't have enough in his system to constitute a failed test. It had been banned the year before so he still had trace amounts in his system.

Showtime never even picked up the fight, so they had to have inside info that something funny was about to happen.

But let's say Povetkin was taking meldonium at the time, so what? Didn't Wlad travel to Russia and beat the **** out of Povetkin while meldonium was still legal? Thought so.

It's known Deontay was scared to fight Povetkin in Russia. Deal with it.

[N/A]

He tested positive for a miniscule amount of meldonium (which is heart medication for fuccing sakes)

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/meldonium-russia-olympics-alexander-krushelnitsky_us_5a8b0dece4b004fc31954e46

17 percent of samples taken from 4,316 Russian athletes between October 2014 and February 2015 had traces of meldonium

So 17% of Russia's top athletes have a heart condition?!?

[WallabeeKing]

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b004fc31954e46

17 percent of samples taken from 4,316 Russian athletes between October 2014 and February 2015 had traces of meldonium

So 17% of Russia's top athletes have a heart condition?!?

It was popular in Russia before it got banned. They would it take like the way muhfuccas do supplements here. Same thing Sharapova got clipped for. It's just heart medication.

I'd say Deontay's metal rods in his fists are more performance-enhancing than meldonium, but I'll let y'all tell it.

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