Fury v Wilder - Staples Center, Los Angeles 1/12/18

[brocktonblockbust]

350,000 bcuz Wilder is still unknown even in America

[smashup]

Wilder in his biggest fight to date against Ortiz only sold 14,500 Tickets.
That's pathetic for a Heavyweight Champion.
What amazes me is that he's pure entertainment with a 100% KO ratio.
Just shows how badly he's been promoted.

[TitoFan]

Wilder in his biggest fight to date against Ortiz only sold 14,500 Tickets.
That's pathetic for a Heavyweight Champion.
What amazes me is that he's pure entertainment with a 100% KO ratio.
Just shows how badly he's been promoted.

There hasn't been an American heavyweight champion before Wilder since Shannon Briggs over a decade ago (oops.... did I neglect to mention Charles Martin?), and Briggs defended exactly zero times.

Before that it was a blur of Rahman, Brewster and Ruiz. The last popular, credible American HW champion let's face it was Evander Holyfield, about 100 years ago.

He's undefeated with that amazing KO ratio.

Floyd is gone and let's face it...... Floyd was more hated than admired.

Wilder fills a huge void in boxing's glamour division in the States.

Yet, he fights out of Alabama and sells 15 thousand tickets.




Conclusion: YES. Wilder's promoters are absolutely the worst promoters in the history of mankind.

[Primo Carnera]

Has this fight still not been made? Fuck me, 3 weeks ago, Warren said it was “on” and the deal was “99% done” fuck me , that 1% is a real stumbling block!

[Gandalf]

Is 15000 that bad? Most fights in America are not exactly fought in stadiums. America is also very different to the UK where most of the population lives in the compressed south which is like an 1/8 of the size of a typical US state. The UK is tiny and the US as a whole is huge and quite spartan in a lot of places. Canelo sold 21000 last week, so Wilder at 14000 in a weak division is doing okay. The Fury fight will bring him more attention and then once he knocks out Joshua he is then a star and even then won't sell out US stadiums as the dynamics are different. He would fight in the usual arenas other fighters do.

[TitoFan]

He's still badly promoted. A skillful promoter would've been more proactive, and gotten him some fights in Vegas by now. A lot of casual fans don't even know who Deontay Wilder is..... and the guy has won 40 professional fights!

[brocktonblockbust]

I asked 5 teenagers who Deontay Wilder is, and 3 said "a YouTuber", and 2 said "a rapper from LA".

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