Demetrius Andrade has accomplished a milestone in boxing history tonight

[Inspired]

Atlanta hadn't had a major fight since Holyfield. Tank, who isn't from Atlanta, did a $2.5 mil gate there and had the city buzzing. And if you're from the US you know Atlanta isn't considered a major sports town. A lot of transplants there with no affiliation to the local teams

It could be various other factors, eg Tank boxed in the Xmas/new year period. why did Danny Garcia struggle recently?
every territory is different too. Atlanta has a large black population who are prob following boxing and hungry for it.
Furthermore brand Mayweather promotions/pbc are already well established in the US.

in the UK, 10 years ago boxing was flat out dead after Amir Khan left. There was David Haye, but when he wasnt getting the klit fight, people weren't bothered by him

It's a smaller country too..and back then when EH entered the scene, it had his complete attention. Still it took time to gain traction eg the Groves/Froch fight was really the first big moment.

the US is obviously far bigger, what works in one place prob wont work in another. I'm not saying this **** to make excuses for EH..however he made these points himself when he came in with the dazn deal.
It's going to take time and a lot of trial and error, research/data before he can think of the marketing/promotional side...otherwise he'd be wasting money not knowing the market.
put it this way, the guy gets around $125m a yr from dazn..and hasnt spent probably half that over the past yr.
How much you reckon this card and the promotion cost?

Jake Paul was prob paid $1m. Farmer prob $1m at a push, prob even less, Andrade prob $1m, again just guessing. The rest of the card would have been paid a fraction of that.
The point im making is, it takes serious money to promote and EH is barely spending for these type of cards. It would be a waste to overspend until he (and dazn) begin to understand what works.
As the saying goes 'first get your foot in the door'.

Take the UFC as an example, took them years, they now spend on ave $20m a card on promotion, but they profit heavily from ppv buys.

one thing though, i guarantee you James Corden, the least talented most annoying tw*t on tv, is more famous in the US than deontay wilder.
That is the state of american boxing. i dont want to know about 'half empty arenas' given that context.
loma, tyson fury, wilder, they all struggle to sell tickets in the US.

[Curt Henning]

"He was looking for one big shot instead of just teeing off on him. Had it Andrade fighting Willie Nelson he would have finished it inside 6."

this one cracks me up

guess he just should fight willie nelsone everytime eh?

[Motorcity Cobra]

It could be various other factors, eg Tank boxed in the Xmas/new year period. why did Danny Garcia struggle recently?
every territory is different too. Atlanta has a large black population who are prob following boxing and hungry for it.
Furthermore brand Mayweather promotions/pbc are already well established in the US.

in the UK, 10 years ago boxing was flat out dead after Amir Khan left. There was David Haye, but when he wasnt getting the klit fight, people weren't bothered by him

It's a smaller country too..and back then when EH entered the scene, it had his complete attention. Still it took time to gain traction eg the Groves/Froch fight was really the first big moment.

the US is obviously far bigger, what works in one place prob wont work in another. I'm not saying this **** to make excuses for EH..however he made these points himself when he came in with the dazn deal.
It's going to take time and a lot of trial and error, research/data before he can think of the marketing/promotional side...otherwise he'd be wasting money not knowing the market.
put it this way, the guy gets around $125m a yr from dazn..and hasnt spent probably half that over the past yr.
How much you reckon this card and the promotion cost?

Jake Paul was prob paid $1m. Farmer prob $1m at a push, prob even less, Andrade prob $1m, again just guessing. The rest of the card would have been paid a fraction of that.
The point im making is, it takes serious money to promote and EH is barely spending for these type of cards. It would be a waste to overspend until he (and dazn) begin to understand what works.
As the saying goes 'first get your foot in the door'.

Take the UFC as an example, took them years, they now spend on ave $20m a card on promotion, but they profit heavily from ppv buys.

one thing though, i guarantee you James Corden, the least talented most annoying tw*t on tv, is more famous in the US than deontay wilder.
That is the state of american boxing. i dont want to know about 'half empty arenas' given that context.
loma, tyson fury, wilder, they all struggle to sell tickets in the US.

You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Miami is not a fight town and to compare it to Chicago shows you have no idea what you're talking about

The UFC was an unknown Sport/Company that had to make inroads everywhere. That's why they went to every city. That had to find which cities were receptive to their sport. Boxing isn't an unknown Sport and everybody knows Miami is not a fight town. Hearn isn't the first to try it and doesn't have some magic formula to make it work. Chicago is a fight town, I used to live in the next county over.

Tank fought during a period fights usually don't happen (between Christmas & New year) because people have spent their money on Christmas gifts and are travelling. And he fought in a city that hasn't had a major fight there since Holyfield.

The reason Tank was successful there are for reasons you nor most people on here will understand. Just like I've been saying for the past year that Tank is a star and nobody believed me. I saw the bubble up from the streets. And if you know anything about American culture you'd understand what I mean