The big super fight Bradley v Alexander has sold 339 tickets!!

[ElTerribleMorales]

Maybe the reason there are on 339 tickets sold is because they don't go on sale until tomorrow! Welcome to the Silverdome located in Pontiac, MI

they went on sale December 10th

[No Contest]

$400.00 for ringside does seem kind of high. $25 dollar tickets probably get you nosebleed section.Heres the seating chart. This is whats wrong with boxing ..its priced too high. $55 bucks and your up in the bleachers. http://www.etix.com/venueResources/t...ingSeating.gif

[fan johnny]

Maybe the reason there are on 339 tickets sold is because they don't go on sale until tomorrow! Welcome to the Silverdome located in Pontiac, MI

they went on sale December 10th

Oh my bad! I didn't read the date, before I clicked on the "Buy Tickets" link I read "Tickets go on sale Friday" and then this came up. (see pic) The advanced column made me think Friday tomorrow.

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[armin]

hmmm six hour drive, need to see if I can squeeze some money out of the old wallet.

[Gandalf]

That's one good thing about the Brits. They might be genetically challenged, but they do support their fighters. Look at how Hatton and to a lesser extent Calzaghe were able to transport fans half way across the globe to watch a fight. And here are two very good fighters unable to command even a modicum of that kind of support. And that is no dig at the two American fighters here as they have been making all the right noises. Where are the fanbases? It bewilders me, it really does. Okay, not the best location for this fight and it is expensive, but it seems that there are hardly any fans out there.

Not good at all. This will be a quality scrap.

[fan johnny]

That's one good thing about the Brits. They might be genetically challenged, but they do support their fighters. Look at how Hatton and to a lesser extent Calzaghe were able to transport fans half way across the globe to watch a fight. And here are two very good fighters unable to command even a modicum of that kind of support. And that is no dig at the two American fighters here as they have been making all the right noises. Where are the fanbases? It bewilders me, it really does. Okay, not the best location for this fight and it is expensive, but it seems that there are hardly any fans out there.

Not good at all. This will be a quality scrap.

Not really a fair comparison with England being roughly the size of New York. If Hatton fans were Bradley fans driving to Michigan from the California They'd have to drive from England to Turkey.

[armin]

That's one good thing about the Brits. They might be genetically challenged, but they do support their fighters. Look at how Hatton and to a lesser extent Calzaghe were able to transport fans half way across the globe to watch a fight. And here are two very good fighters unable to command even a modicum of that kind of support. And that is no dig at the two American fighters here as they have been making all the right noises. Where are the fanbases? It bewilders me, it really does. Okay, not the best location for this fight and it is expensive, but it seems that there are hardly any fans out there.

Not good at all. This will be a quality scrap.

Not really a fair comparison with England being roughly the size of New York. If Hatton fans were Bradley fans driving to Michigan from the California They'd have to drive from England to Turkey.

I think he meant they were able to bring way more than 500 people across the pond to vegas and whereever else they fought...

[armin]

Silverdome sale price disappoints | detnews.com | The Detroit News

where the fight is taking place, sold for a mere 583k for a full fledged arena/stadium insane.

[CFH]

That's one good thing about the Brits. They might be genetically challenged, but they do support their fighters. Look at how Hatton and to a lesser extent Calzaghe were able to transport fans half way across the globe to watch a fight. And here are two very good fighters unable to command even a modicum of that kind of support. And that is no dig at the two American fighters here as they have been making all the right noises. Where are the fanbases? It bewilders me, it really does. Okay, not the best location for this fight and it is expensive, but it seems that there are hardly any fans out there.

Not good at all. This will be a quality scrap.

Not really a fair comparison with England being roughly the size of New York. If Hatton fans were Bradley fans driving to Michigan from the California They'd have to drive from England to Turkey.

I think he meant they were able to bring way more than 500 people across the pond to vegas and whereever else they fought...

Hatton is hardly a fair comparison in terms of popularity though.

[Fenster]

That's one good thing about the Brits. They might be genetically challenged, but they do support their fighters. Look at how Hatton and to a lesser extent Calzaghe were able to transport fans half way across the globe to watch a fight. And here are two very good fighters unable to command even a modicum of that kind of support. And that is no dig at the two American fighters here as they have been making all the right noises. Where are the fanbases? It bewilders me, it really does. Okay, not the best location for this fight and it is expensive, but it seems that there are hardly any fans out there.

Not good at all. This will be a quality scrap.

Not really a fair comparison with England being roughly the size of New York. If Hatton fans were Bradley fans driving to Michigan from the California They'd have to drive from England to Turkey.

I think he meant they were able to bring way more than 500 people across the pond to vegas and whereever else they fought...

Hatton brought over 20,000 for Floyd and around 10,000 for Pac. Incredible.

[OumaFan]

Detroit is an incredibly bad situation, I don't even think Americans really understand how bad it is. The whole midwest has been hurt by the move away from factory type work but Detroit's the worst.

And you really can't compare the US to England as far as this goes. There are so many different mitigating circumstances. The size of the country is obviously one, the amount of fighters is another (both of these contribute to people (casual fans I mean) in Detroit not really caring about fighters from other regions), and of course when you really get down to it boxing is just a niche sport here.

where does boxing rank among sports in the UK? I get the sense that there's just the one overwhelming favorite in soccer and then everything else is kind of in another tier. Is boxing number two? Rugby?

Here even though pro football is huge and a clear number one it seems like there are more big sports with no equivalent to the overall dominance that soccer/football has in the UK and boxing is way down the line

Pro football
College football
Pro basketball
Pro baseball
College basketball
Nascar
UFC
hockey
boxing
soccer

only the bottom ones are hard to rank.

[skel1983]

Detroit is an incredibly bad situation, I don't even think Americans really understand how bad it is. The whole midwest has been hurt by the move away from factory type work but Detroit's the worst.

And you really can't compare the US to England as far as this goes. There are so many different mitigating circumstances. The size of the country is obviously one, the amount of fighters is another (both of these contribute to people (casual fans I mean) in Detroit not really caring about fighters from other regions), and of course when you really get down to it boxing is just a niche sport here.

where does boxing rank among sports in the UK? I get the sense that there's just the one overwhelming favorite in soccer and then everything else is kind of in another tier. Is boxing number two? Rugby?

Here even though pro football is huge and a clear number one it seems like there are more big sports with no equivalent to the overall dominance that soccer/football has in the UK and boxing is way down the line

Pro football
College football
Pro basketball
Pro baseball
College basketball
Nascar
UFC
hockey
boxing
soccer

only the bottom ones are hard to rank.

Boxing is nowhere near number two, boxing is struggling to get tv deals couple of our top promoters don't even have a tv deal right now.


Football
Cricket
Tennis
Formula One
Atheltics
Golf
Darts

Just to name a few are all covered more on tv and alot of casual fans no the top players teams in these and other sports, you would be hard pressed to for a casual fan to no who the likes of Carl Froch and Ricky Burns is. Both world champs.

[Gandalf]

That's one good thing about the Brits. They might be genetically challenged, but they do support their fighters. Look at how Hatton and to a lesser extent Calzaghe were able to transport fans half way across the globe to watch a fight. And here are two very good fighters unable to command even a modicum of that kind of support. And that is no dig at the two American fighters here as they have been making all the right noises. Where are the fanbases? It bewilders me, it really does. Okay, not the best location for this fight and it is expensive, but it seems that there are hardly any fans out there.

Not good at all. This will be a quality scrap.

Not really a fair comparison with England being roughly the size of New York. If Hatton fans were Bradley fans driving to Michigan from the California They'd have to drive from England to Turkey.

I am saying that English fans travelled much further than that and in greater numbers. I know things are tough and understand, but less than 500 paying punters is sorely lacking. It's a great matchup, such poor numbers for such an enticing fight.

Good reasons have been given as to why the numbers are so poor, but it's still a poor reflection on the fanbases the two fighters have. They should have more devoted fans than this.

[skel1983]

That's one good thing about the Brits. They might be genetically challenged, but they do support their fighters. Look at how Hatton and to a lesser extent Calzaghe were able to transport fans half way across the globe to watch a fight. And here are two very good fighters unable to command even a modicum of that kind of support. And that is no dig at the two American fighters here as they have been making all the right noises. Where are the fanbases? It bewilders me, it really does. Okay, not the best location for this fight and it is expensive, but it seems that there are hardly any fans out there.

Not good at all. This will be a quality scrap.

Not really a fair comparison with England being roughly the size of New York. If Hatton fans were Bradley fans driving to Michigan from the California They'd have to drive from England to Turkey.

I am saying that English fans travelled much further than that and in greater numbers. I know things are tough and understand, but less than 500 paying punters is sorely lacking. It's a great matchup, such poor numbers for such an enticing fight.

Good reasons have been given as to why the numbers are so poor, but it's still a poor reflection on the fanbases the two fighters have. They should have more devoted fans than this.

Like I say I honestly think fights like this should be brought over to the uk especially when they both want a neutral venue and this fight would of sold 5-10k tickets easy at the MEN arena, and the atmosphere over here is second to none imo.

Katsidis is a huge fan of fighting over here and loves the passion of the fans, if these huge fights like this are doing this poorly promoters needs to look at going over seas imo.

[fan johnny]

That's one good thing about the Brits. They might be genetically challenged, but they do support their fighters. Look at how Hatton and to a lesser extent Calzaghe were able to transport fans half way across the globe to watch a fight. And here are two very good fighters unable to command even a modicum of that kind of support. And that is no dig at the two American fighters here as they have been making all the right noises. Where are the fanbases? It bewilders me, it really does. Okay, not the best location for this fight and it is expensive, but it seems that there are hardly any fans out there.

Not good at all. This will be a quality scrap.

Not really a fair comparison with England being roughly the size of New York. If Hatton fans were Bradley fans driving to Michigan from the California They'd have to drive from England to Turkey.

I am saying that English fans travelled much further than that and in greater numbers. I know things are tough and understand, but less than 500 paying punters is sorely lacking. It's a great matchup, such poor numbers for such an enticing fight.

Good reasons have been given as to why the numbers are so poor, but it's still a poor reflection on the fanbases the two fighters have. They should have more devoted fans than this.

I definitely agree with you. It is a very poor showing but Americans are naturally more lazy because they are spoiled with conveniences. Why make such a long the trip when they can just turn on HBO and sit down with a beer behind that 60" HD screen. Put this fight in Vegas and it does at least what Mar/Kas did. English fans are great for promoters, if Matthew Hatton were fighting in Vegas, I'm sure he'd bring across a few or more thousand too.

The way I see it is, if the population of the US, were crammed into California, I believe it would be more patriarch and rebellious like England is around it's boxing personalities. Filling a Stadium would be like starting a fight in a crowed mall at Christmas. Put on popular fighters in Hawaii and there are people just looking for reasons to get out for a breather. Let's not forget the weather as a motivator.