In front of 50 thousand but no one stateside cared to watch.

I think they should have had it in Yankee Stadium. The fans most definitely would have come out for that for a few reasons, first being that a lot of people would go just for the novelty of having it at Yankee stadium like the old days in that stadium's last year. And Hopkins fans are on the East Coast and with a hurting economy, it's not exactly easy to travel across the country to see a fight.