Errol Spence has now sold more tickets than Mikey Garcia in Texas AND California!
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Errol Spence’s fight against a no-name like Carlos Ocampo drew in a sold out crowd of 15,000 in Texas according to Keith Idec of boxingscene
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 unk
Mikey Garcia has had about three fights in Texas, and none of them drew a crowd of 15k. Here’s a list of all three of them:
1. Garcia vs Lopez. Dallas, TX. 5,605 fans
2. Garcia vs Martinez. Corpus-Cristi, TX. 5,124 fans
Mikey Garcia stopped defending champion Rocky Martinez 56 seconds into the eighth round Saturday night to take the WBO junior lightweight title.
3. Garcia vs Lipinets. San Antonio. TX. 7,800 fans http://fightnights.com/2018/05/18/40...-cow-in-boxing
Now onto California. Errol Spence had a crowd of 16k in attendance for his fight against Shawn Porter at the Staples Center in LA.
By Keith Idec - LOS ANGELES – Shawn Porter proved Saturday night that the odds-makers and countless others didn’t know what was about to happen. Dismissed by ma
Mikey Garcia fought in the same venue against Robert Easter and only 12k people showed up. According to sources, half of the people there got FREE tickets.
By Keith Idec - LOS ANGELES – Robert Easter Jr. deemed Mikey Garcia overrated before their fight Saturday night. The former IBF lightweight champion might feel
So the narrative that Mikey sold the PPV against Errol because of “the mexican fans” has officially crumbled. Errol Spence is a draw, and a bigger draw than Mikey.
HBO and Bob Arum started that myth while trying to strangle
American boxers out of existence!
HBO boxing would not have when out of business if that was true!
ESPN is struggling trying to promote (Eastern) European boxers, Dazn has the biggest Mexican boxing star today and they are virtually irrelevant!Comment
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Errol Spence’s fight against a no-name like Carlos Ocampo drew in a sold out crowd of 15,000 in Texas according to Keith Idec of boxingscene
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 unk
Mikey Garcia has had about three fights in Texas, and none of them drew a crowd of 15k. Here’s a list of all three of them:
1. Garcia vs Lopez. Dallas, TX. 5,605 fans
2. Garcia vs Martinez. Corpus-Cristi, TX. 5,124 fans
Mikey Garcia stopped defending champion Rocky Martinez 56 seconds into the eighth round Saturday night to take the WBO junior lightweight title.
3. Garcia vs Lipinets. San Antonio. TX. 7,800 fans http://fightnights.com/2018/05/18/40...-cow-in-boxing
Now onto California. Errol Spence had a crowd of 16k in attendance for his fight against Shawn Porter at the Staples Center in LA.
By Keith Idec - LOS ANGELES – Shawn Porter proved Saturday night that the odds-makers and countless others didn’t know what was about to happen. Dismissed by ma
Mikey Garcia fought in the same venue against Robert Easter and only 12k people showed up. According to sources, half of the people there got FREE tickets.
By Keith Idec - LOS ANGELES – Robert Easter Jr. deemed Mikey Garcia overrated before their fight Saturday night. The former IBF lightweight champion might feel
So the narrative that Mikey sold the PPV against Errol because of “the mexican fans” has officially crumbled. Errol Spence is a draw, and a bigger draw than Mikey.Comment
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Mexicans care about canelo when Spence can compete with canelos stardom comeback to me but for now enjoy you’re low budget “ king” lol smhComment
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I'm not sure why there's such an emphasis on Mikey specifically when discussing whether Mexican Americans contributed to Spence's ppv numbers. First of all, undoubtedly many Mexican American fans tuned into Spence-Garcia considering it featured one of the most high profile Mexican American fighters in Garcia, Spence is from TX so many Mexican Americans already had an eye on him, and Mexican Americans represent a major ppv buying demographic. However, those fans don't exclusively belong to Garcia as many are boxing fans in general. And given Spence's exposure to that fanbase, I'm sure many were inclined to tune to his recent fight with Porter especially with another Mexican American up and coming star featured on the undercard (which was no coincidence). I really don't get the anti Mexican American animosity from Spence fans who should be happy to see his fanbase grow.Comment
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First of all, Floyd Mayweather rarely ever fought on mexican holidays. He fought on cinco de Mayo twice, once against Oscar De La Hoya because Oscar was the A-Side and he did it once voluntarily against Miguel Cotto. After that we never saw Mayweather fight on May 5th nor September 15th. Floyd Mayweather’s most successful PPV came against Conor McGregor in August.
Second, bringing up Floyd is counter intuitive to your point. Mayweather was the most popular boxer from 2007-2017, no mexican has reached his level of global popularity ever. This in fact shows that the mexican fan base is insignificant.
Lastly, what does that have anything to do with the topic at hand? My point is that Errol Spence is a bigger draw than Mikey Garcia despite his lack of Mexican fans, we’ve seen Spence outsell Garcia in both TEXAS and California, both states with huge meixcan populations. It seems that the narrative that Mikey sold the PPV has no real data backing it up.Comment
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Spence is from Texas whom had a sellout crowd of 12,604 (rumored to have produced a live gate of a million dollars or more).
Mikey and Vargas did 11,019 whom aren’t from Texas. Why did all these fans come to see Californian boxers?Comment
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