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

[Raggamuffin]

The Wilder Ortiz fight is a risk fight for both, and since the fight was made...all you heard from Joshua fans is how Ortiz is old. Nobody cares what you Joshua fanatics think since many of you can’t be objective; nobody cares how much they make except their people so to post it here as some sort of negative is hilarious. They are on collision course and Hearn won’t duck and dodge his way out of this fight.

[john l]

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.

Your not too bright huh?Yea Wilder did not want fight huh?Then why did he sign for it and why did he train for it(costs money)and why did he go over to Europe?But really answer this fanboy HOW THE HELL DID HE KNOW PEDEKIN WOULD TEST POSTIVE A WEEK BEFORE FIGHT????????????????????iDIOT

[john l]

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?!?

And Wilder can tell future and knew PEDetkin would test positive a week before lmao.What ***en world do these idiots come from.

[john l]

The Wilder Ortiz fight is a risk fight for both, and since the fight was made...all you heard from Joshua fans is how Ortiz is old. Nobody cares what you Joshua fanatics think since many of you can’t be objective; nobody cares how much they make except their people so to post it here as some sort of negative is hilarious. They are on collision course and Hearn won’t duck and dodge his way out of this fight.

And now you hear them saying Ortiz is gonna take a dive lmfao.Yea if he wins he is in line for a 10 mil payday so what are you going to pay him??????And where are you gonna recap that money???Sportbooks?There not nowhere near that dumb any fuuny bets and they pull plug.All those lights you see in Vegas are not powered by morons(maybe payed by them).These guys are like me with mike Tyson you could not convince me he could be beat not Ali not Louis not 20 guys in bar with andre the giant helping BUT I WAS 13.

[Raggamuffin]

And now you hear them saying Ortiz is gonna take a dive lmfao.Yea if he wins he is in line for a 10 mil payday so what are you going to pay him??????And where are you gonna recap that money???Sportbooks?There not nowhere near that dumb any fuuny bets and they pull plug.All those lights you see in Vegas are not powered by morons(maybe payed by them).These guys are like me with mike Tyson you could not convince me he could be beat not Ali not Louis not 20 guys in bar with andre the giant helping BUT I WAS 13.

Lol lmao...!!!

[john l]

Isn't a draw compared to who? If we're only comparing him to the biggest draw in the sport, than sure. But compared to everybody else? Wilder is clearly one of the biggest draws in US boxing. I know you're just a child, but eventually you will learn about nuance. Just because something isn't the best ever doesn't mean it's the worst ever either.

Wilder vs. Ortiz has a legitimate chance to break the all time boxing attendance record at Barclays. There are only a handful of fighters who can sell more tickets in the US than Wilder. There are thousands and thousands of fighters. If out of thousands and thousands of fighters, Wilder is a bigger draw than almost all of them, it seems silly to take the position that he "isn't a draw."




Yes they did. Press releases list the base price, not the actual price you pay. The fight was priced at $57-$757, which is the $50 you quoted plus a $7 facility fee. But there are also ticketing fees, which bring the price to $74 (although for a limited time you can get tickets without fees right now).

On top of that, they just raised prices today, so that $57 ticket is now $67. And when the fees kick back in, it'll be $84 to sit in the nose bleeds.

Why are you using reason and evidence this is Boxingscene forum that sh ite don't fly here.What a putz using facts and common sence.Get a clue your speaking to fanboys that have been following this sport for almost 2 years now I think they all know everthing about boxing by now.JEEEZ

[Robbie Barrett]

There aren't thousands of tickets still available. 500 tickets sold yesterday and there are now less than a thousand remaining.

Attendance at Barclays Center for Wilder-Ortiz is 14,069, second-largest boxing crowd at the arena behind Keith Thurman-Danny Garcia last year. https://t.co/MQs2iCCvOL

— Dan Rafael (@danrafaelespn) 4 March 2018

Doesn't the Barclays Center hold 19k?