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

[bluemax]

Great Fight

Love it or hate this fight there is no denying it will have two of the top 3 heavyweights fighting each other. All this talk that Wilder hasn't fought anyone is just bogus. Look at the state of the heavyweight division folks it is shallow! Who has Joshua fought? An old way past his prime Klitchko? No reflection on Joshua either but quite frankly we don't know how good he is either, or his chin. Since beating Klitchko his management is capitolizing on his fame in England by carefully cherry picking opponents for as much money as possible,. Good business but bad for boxing since until Wilder, Ortiz and Joshua fight each other who knows who is the best. At least Ortiz and Wilder are stepping up and it remains to be seen how soon this will force Joshua to come out of hiding and risk his chin against real heavyweights with a heartbeat

[Robbie Barrett]

$830 is an expensive ticket. Big boxing matches often have expensive tickets. It's nothing out of the ordinary.

But the previous poster was insisting tickets for this fight were priced cheap. Which simply wasn't true.

Joshua-Parker was priced 40-600 pounds (with some VIP packages at 2,000 pounds), Wilder-Ortiz was priced at 74-830 dollars. So other than the VIP packages, the tickets were priced pretty similarly.

Meanwhile, the HBO show the same night, in the same city, is priced at 50-300 and is struggling to sell more than a couple thousand tickets.

So why is the Showtime fight being singled out for supposedly having "cheap tickets" and "failing to sell?" Doesn't make any sense. It's just haters and trolls.

All ringside tickets for Joshua-Parker were £2000. Not "some"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/box...-revealed.html

Joshua-Parker venue is 4x the size and sold out straight away. Just stop it moron. Wilder isn't a draw.



Wilder-Ortiz tickets didn't start at $74 either.

"Tickets for the show, which is promoted by DiBella Entertainment and TGB Promotions, start at $50"

https://www.boxingscene.com/deontay-wilder-vs-luis-ortiz-official-march-3-barclays--124233

Keep lying ******.

[HarvardBlue]

Wilder gets so much hate on this site you would think he beat some of your favorite fighters.

Let me see, he hasn't beat anyone so he's a bum. He' unpopular and couldn't sell out his own backyard. Oh yeah, and he swings like a windmill.

With this much negativity you would think he would get zero attention. He must be doing something right to garner all this hate.

[Deus]

Love it or hate this fight there is no denying it will have two of the top 3 heavyweights fighting each other. All this talk that Wilder hasn't fought anyone is just bogus. Look at the state of the heavyweight division folks it is shallow! Who has Joshua fought? An old way past his prime Klitchko? No reflection on Joshua either but quite frankly we don't know how good he is either, or his chin. Since beating Klitchko his management is capitolizing on his fame in England by carefully cherry picking opponents for as much money as possible,. Good business but bad for boxing since until Wilder, Ortiz and Joshua fight each other who knows who is the best. At least Ortiz and Wilder are stepping up and it remains to be seen how soon this will force Joshua to come out of hiding and risk his chin against real heavyweights with a heartbeat

No denying it? Now if you’d said 2 of the top 4 then yes there would be no discounting in any way but there are just as many question marks over Ortiz’ ability post-PEDs than there is in Joseph Parker’s attributes whom actually happens to be a title holder.

Guess you’re just the usual fanboy whom can’t praise one without criticizing the other because BOTH Wilder v Ortiz and Joshua v Parker are great fights that should lead us towards finally seeing a unified heavyweight champion.

[Straightener]

Boxing is on the big time slide in the states

This fight should be a sell out and a long time ago

One of the better fights that could be made in the hw division .

meanwhile Joshua sells 90,000 in the same day

[mlac]

spastics arguing over how many tickets have been sold lol..

juggarnutter666 v that wba ibf lunatic who pretends hes one of 3 people in boxing running the account is like:

[Robbie Barrett]

Barclays offering discounts. WBA IBF ****** telling us it's almost sold out though.

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[Boksfan]

Love it or hate this fight there is no denying it will have two of the top 3 heavyweights fighting each other. All this talk that Wilder hasn't fought anyone is just bogus. Look at the state of the heavyweight division folks it is shallow! Who has Joshua fought? An old way past his prime Klitchko? No reflection on Joshua either but quite frankly we don't know how good he is either, or his chin. Since beating Klitchko his management is capitolizing on his fame in England by carefully cherry picking opponents for as much money as possible,. Good business but bad for boxing since until Wilder, Ortiz and Joshua fight each other who knows who is the best. At least Ortiz and Wilder are stepping up and it remains to be seen how soon this will force Joshua to come out of hiding and risk his chin against real heavyweights with a heartbeat

Unification fight you call cherry picking? Deluded clown

[vitali1999]

Wrong, Klitschko vs Arreola was way bigger than this, that was March 2009. Staples Center, Arreola was billed as the next big thing, he was undefeated and the WBC number 1 ranked mandatory contender, and Vitali well he was Vitali, you know the better brother. I would say it's not as big because of wilder.

[champion4ever]

If Wilder wins, then I think that it is only poetic justice that he challenges Alexander Povetkin next. I say this because it looks like Eddie Hearn and Anthony Joshua are eyeing Jarrell Miller for their next opponent, if he wins against Joseph Parker. In addition, since it seems so apparent, that Wilder is a man of second chances, then I think that it is only fitting that he should give Alexander Povetkin another shot a redemption also.