Comments Thread For: Capacity Crowd Saturday Validates Spence as Rare American Draw

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By Keith Idec - Errol Spence Jr.'s fight Saturday night is more about where than who. The unbeaten IBF welterweight champion is such a huge favorite against unknown mandatory challenger Carlos Ocampo that if Spence loses, it'll be an upset of epic proportions. The 22-year-old Ocampo is unbeaten, but he has defeated a very low level of opposition since making his pro debut in July 2012 and hasn't fought outside of his native Mexico...
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[TinAgeOfBoxing]

They sold out the Dallas Cowboys locker room whoopadee. Maybe Spence will wear one of the lineman's jock straps on his head when he makes his way to the ring.

[SkiPete]

Capacity crowd of given away tickets. As Mike Tyson once remarked. "I could sell out Madison Square Garden Masturbating".

[Dasmius Shinobi]

Man one down

WAR SPENCE!!! Man one down!!!:ANYWORD:

[Rubber Ducky]

That might be impressive if it was Vegas and if the tickets where going for many thousands, but ringside seats are only $500. In terms of live gates it's not that impressive.

[sportbuddha]

Capacity crowd of given away tickets. As Mike Tyson once remarked. "I could sell out Madison Square Garden Masturbating".

Ahhh, so now I finally understand what Amir Khan was thinking...

[Jubei]

Is Spence still not enrolled to any drugtesting whatsoever?

Fighting a 100:1 mismatch, well its a mandatory, so that happens, but not doing any drugtesting for this fight and not being enrolled in the CBP, I dont like it. I wanna support Spence, hopefully soon he will prove that he is a clean fighter.

[Scipio2009]

That might be impressive if it was Vegas and if the tickets where going for many thousands, but ringside seats are only $500. In terms of live gates it's not that impressive.

15000 seats at $500-$50, depending on the breakdown of tickets, puts Spence's 1st hometown title defense well over $1m at the gate.

Las Vegas will be Las Vegas, but you really can't point to many fighters or fights that sell 15000 seats at $500-$50. Only ones I can confidently point to are Canelo and Anthony Joshua.

Terence Crawford is still selling his Omaha tickets for $150, Andre Ward would likely be at $400-$500 for ringside at Oracle Arena now but not sure if he'd be drawing 15000+ to the building, and Golovkin has built his base on being an adopted Mexican, has had a bunch of fights in SoCal, has run The Forum multiple times, and even he doesn't set $300 tickets.

[5000boxing]

Spence will make this fool get on one knee and propose like Kell Brook!

[peakbay]

Who give a f*** how much the tickets cost? he's only been a belt holder for 2 mins everyone has to start somewhere and why as fans would you want high ticket prices anyway?