Andy Lee vs BJS - Manchester 10th October

[bzkfn]

Lee doesn't have a virus. Fact is that the fight couldn't sell tickets. If it could, they'd have rearranged it for Limerick instead of adding it as an undercard fight to Terry Flanagan's first defence.

[Tam Seddon]

Lee doesn't have a virus. Fact is that the fight couldn't sell tickets. If it could, they'd have rearranged it for Limerick instead of adding it as an undercard fight to Terry Flanagan's first defence.

Exactly what I thought

[Mark TKO]

It's a twat when that happens

I've had it happen three times with fights - and a further twice with non-fight boxer related events (Leonard and Tyson) and lost ticket booking fee and hotel money.

Has really put me off future boxing events I can tell you

Thankfully has never happened for a Vegas fight - that happened to a mate of mine about 15 years ago (a De La Hoya fight I think) . Ouch

still you'll have a good time and don't have to worry about being pissed and missing it

[Master]

I am surprised this fight is not selling in Ireland. Move it to the UK or USA.

[Fenster]

Hardly a surprise. Warren let slip at the second press conference they'd only sold 8000 tickets (half anything a promoter says). 33,000 takes some selling for a fight between two blokes that haven't got a bad word to say about each other. Obviously it don't help being on BoxNation (one man and a dog channel)

[Kirkland Laing]

How can the first ever all-pikey world title fight not be able to sell tickets in Ireland? Mystifying. Things going from bad to worse for Frank Warren.

[smashup]

This is terrible promoting, absolute fucking joke!
I'd be serious pissed off if i'd paid for flights, hotel etc over in Ireland already.
Warren seems doomed and so does Boxnation in losing the Fury v Wlad fight people are simply not going to renew their Subscription with decent fights becoming more scarce, add to that the fact that Sky and BT Sports have just announced their new free sports channels that will be showing live boxing soon things do not look good for the future.

Is this even gonna fill the MEN Arena (22,000) ? i seriously doubt it will do being solely marketed on Boxnation TV. (maybe the amount of Pikeys in England can help it now it's more accessible)
I'd love to see the membership numbers of actual monthly Boxnation subscribers compared to 12 months ago, i'd bet it's dropped massively as they simply don't put on anywhere near as good fights as they did last year.
Really don't see Boxnation surviving for too much longer which is a shame because it used to be superb value for money for live fights!

[p4pking]

How can the first ever all-pikey world title fight not be able to sell tickets in Ireland? Mystifying. Things going from bad to worse for Frank Warren.

I was about to ask if this was the first all Irish title fight in the country, amazing that it didn't sell considering no? They could have put the fight in Boston or New York and it would have been no problem.