Comments Thread For: Arum: The Problem In Boxing Is We Can't Sell Tickets To Fights

[Bob Haymon]

Crawford's home city all showed up. Great. Now let's talk about what I really asked you - which is how many he sold that were NOT Nebraska natives.

Tonight's fight will do more than the 9,000 Porter got at Barclay's against Berto.

[etech1]

So one of the boxing parasites is telling us BS reasons why the host is showing sickness. Lol! Classic!

Tell us more bob. I enjoy the comedy!

[killakali]

Crawford's home city all showed up. Great. Now let's talk about what I really asked you - which is how many he sold that were NOT Nebraska natives.

Same as porter. Porter as a side don’t sell

[killakali]

He was banking on Lopez being a hometown fighter with a big buzz but that’s not enough.

Lopez lost a lot of his momentum with his last fight and been as quiet as a hooker in church trading for Commey.

I ain’t mad and glad he’s focused but he needed to sell this fight more than Crawford.

At the end of the day we have some boxing today!! World class boxing!! Nothing better.

War Lopez!! Catrachos stand up!!

Catrachos y Aztecas trabajando duro!

[killakali]

Arum is absolutely right here. Fighters need to fight in their home towns a lot more and that will boost ticket sales. Juan Diaz used to have Houston rocking when he fought here in his day. Errol Spence has a packed house vs Ocampo when I went to that fight, and Crawford had a huge crowd when I went to see him v Benavidez.

Arum just needs to take his own advice on the other part, making 50/50 fights. From the guy who brought you Crawford v Khan and put it on PPV, it’s a little shocking to hear about him wanting to make 50/50 fights. If promoters want an easier time trying make 50/50 fights they should stop making excuses and start working with each other. Only so many solid matchups you can make under one promotional umbrella.

your right. No argument here just for tv reasons they don’t always wanna go to places like Omaha doe

[Beercules]

Problem is boxing is a cliche sport. Nobody cares but us.


Sure some fights will be big, nuts it's usually this guy won't fight this guy because of promoters.

[mattr]

I think you mean it's a niche sport, not a cliche. 😆

[Monzon99]

Public feels ripped off after being fleeced for so many fake fights and rigged sparring sessions like all of Floyd's fraud fights and Wilder's rigged fake KOs and Canelo's rigged fake record.

Fans not willing to buy tickets for boxing shows is the trickle down effect. Even friggin Al Haymon doesn't even bother to show up and watch his live shows from ringside, he stays home. Because Haymon knows who will win every time. It's all rigged. Stop rigging all the big fights in America and give the public the fights they want and the public will buy. Keep giving the public rigged set ups and fake KOs and rigged sparring sessions and boxing will continue the downward spiral in America.

[andoxcv66]

Pacquiao

It’s no one to blame but Bob Arum, their brand top rank becomes low rank. Everybody knows how top rank ****ed up Manny Pacquiao’s career and by this alone, they smeared their kind of business. The boxers that top rank is promoting are also suffering from this curse being linked with top rank. It’s ominous that it’s just a matter of time that top rank will demise just like HBO.

[Oldskoolg]

I don't think what you say is completely wrong, but it's also not completely accurate, because Floyd Mayweather managed to get all sorts of people to fly out to watch him beat Manny and McGregor.

That’s mayweather, the biggest money maker in boxing history. Bad comparison my man. Mayweather is literally a generational talent