Wilder vs. Fury sells $1 mil worth of tickets in first 25 minutes

[FaustoGeraci]

All about the ppvs to make the real cash

What do you know about making money you goof

[Sid-Knee]

How many events have you promoted in the US? I assume none. So how would you have any idea? I've promoted hundreds of events. Everything from large scale festivals all the way down to club events.

Different events in different genres have different on sale strategies.

For a big fight in the US, an immediate sell out isn't the goal. All that means is that you under priced tickets.

You claim any in demand event sells out as soon as tickets go on sale.

So according to you, Mayweather vs Pacquiao wasn't an in demand event. Mayweather vs McGregor wasn't an in demand event. Mike Tyson vs Lennox Lewis wasn't an in demand event. The list goes on and on. Most of the biggest fights in history didn't sell out.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

You clearly don't understand what in-demand is. For an in-demand event, yes, tickets fly out and are sold in hours.


Pac was well past his best so the tickets weren't as in-demand as they once were.

Lewis/Tyson was held in Memphis so not exactly in a boxing hot spot. Plus the world cup was on that year so a lot of attention was taken away.

Most people saw the McGregor fight as a farce and circus, so it can't be blamed if the selling of tickets was slow. Plus the price of them was ridiculous.

Many reasons for why those tickets didn't go fast. Over here though, any in-demand event gets sold out in seconds and hours, not days.

[Sid-Knee]

So what about Joshua and Povetkin? Did they not sell out Wembley Stadium after more than 11 weeks in with several thousand tickets still remaining? However, eventually did the event still sell out but how many days did it take them to do it though? Just a few days before fight time? In any case, it was yet deemed a box office smash even though it took them several months in order to do so from the biggest cash cow that England has ever known.

The stadium that Joshua fought Povetkin in held 100,000. So a massive difference to fighting in an arena with much less tickets. Not only that, but most of the tickets for Joshua/Povetkin sold out in a few days. If this fight was in-demand as you say, those tickets would have flew out. But they haven't.

[True-Boxing-Fan]

Wow that is huge! My projections on this fight just may come true. This fight just may do well over 1 million Pay per view buys or perhaps close to even 2 million Pay per view buys.

Calm down there guy. Ain’t no way it sells one million ppv buys nevertheless 2 million. Slow down there youngster.

[champion4ever]

Calm down there guy. Ain’t no way it sells one million ppv buys nevertheless 2 million. Slow down there youngster.

It will be very close my friend; Very close. I believe in miracles.

[champion4ever]

The stadium that Joshua fought Povetkin in held 100,000. So a massive difference to fighting in an arena with much less tickets. Not only that, but most of the tickets for Joshua/Povetkin sold out in a few days. If this fight was in-demand as you say, those tickets would have flew out. But they haven't.

That is not an excuse. Anthony Joshua just so happens to the most recognizable human on the island of Great Britain. No matter the size of the venue but his tickets didn't just fly out.

It took time. If that was the case, then the fight should have been sold out in just a few hours of them going on sale but they were not.

It took Matchroom Boxing several weeks in order to ensure the sell out of that event. I heard there were still tickets remaining just five days out from the fight from this in demand event.

[N/A]

You clearly don't understand what in-demand is. For an in-demand event, yes, tickets fly out and are sold in hours.

You have no idea what you're talking about. If tickets sell out in hours, that means you didn't charge as much as you could have.

None of the biggest fights of all time sold out. They didn't sell out because they weren't priced to sell out. They were priced to maximize revenue, which inevitably means some tickets don't sell if you're maxing our your pricing.

Mayweather vs Pacquiao didn't sell out, but did sell $72 million in tickets. Joshua vs Klitschko sold $10 million in tickets.

Do you realize how ****** you sound when you say the most in demand event in history wasn't in demand because it didn't sell out? Do you comprehend how in demand an event has to be to sell $72 million in tickets?

[Split Decision]

You have no idea what you're talking about. If tickets sell out in hours, that means you didn't charge as much as you could have.

None of the biggest fights of all time sold out. They didn't sell out because they weren't priced to sell out. They were priced to maximize revenue, which inevitably means some tickets don't sell if you're maxing our your pricing.

Mayweather vs Pacquiao didn't sell out, but did sell $72 million in tickets. Joshua vs Klitschko sold $10 million in tickets.

Do you realize how ****** you sound when you say the most in demand event in history wasn't in demand because it didn't sell out? Do you comprehend how in demand an event has to be to sell $72 million in tickets?

thats cool if u do that in usa and im sure thats how it has always been

but i doubt they could pull that off in the uk as the fans wont tolerate a huge price hike. u could do a lot of damage by doing that and fans will put put off

we like having fans in arenas here and not just celeb bullcrap

[N/A]

but i doubt they could pull that off in the uk as the fans wont tolerate a huge price hike.

Hearn just scalps his own tickets to stubhub instead.

You do have a point that boxing is more of an every man sport in the UK, while in the US, at least for the live gate, it's targeted at celebrities and high rollers.

Almost all of the lower bowl for Wilder/Fury is priced between one thousand and two thousand dollars per ticket. I'm not just talking ringside. I'm talking the majority of the arena. Fights priced at that level aren't intended to sell out. They're intended to maximize revenue.

[Sid-Knee]

That is not an excuse. Anthony Joshua just so happens to the most recognizable human on the island of Great Britain. No matter the size of the venue but his tickets didn't just fly out.

It took time. If that was the case, then the fight should have been sold out in just a few hours of them going on sale but they were not.

It took Matchroom Boxing several weeks in order to ensure the sell out of that event. I heard there were still tickets remaining just five days out from the fight from this in demand event.

The Povetkin fight wasn't as in-demand as Joshua's other fights, but it was still in high demand considering it sold most of the tickets quickly. And it isn't an excuse if you're shifting 100,000 tickets compared to 18,000. If that's all Joshua had to sell the fight would sell out in less than a minute. None of this 3 days or more ****.