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

[Cressa121]

It seems pointless to put this fight in a place that's going through a really tough time economically. I understand Bradley not wanting to do it in St. Louis, but why not somewhere a bit more high profile? Surely it could have done better in Vegas or somewhere? Bradley put on his twitter the other day that they've sold 2000 tickets. Very low for a fight of this magnitude

[Master]

JMM v Katasidis drew a small crowd for that fight but Arum says that low attendances are common, that Leonard and Hagler fought on the same bill and only about 4,000 came to watch.

[fan johnny]

JMM v Katasidis drew a small crowd for that fight but Arum says that low attendances are common, that Leonard and Hagler fought on the same bill and only about 4,000 came to watch.

That number is typical for a big fight in Vegas. It takes the news media and the like to create cross-over interest in a fight. Olympic known fighters have the advantage when it comes to being a cross-over star. Promoter's don't have the formula on how to create a cross-over star although that is exactly what they want everyone to believe.

No one ever expected Staples to sellout (over 20K) for Margarito / Mosley because Mosley was getting old but it's a huge Latino market in Los Angeles. Black vs Hispanic makes a lot of drama, is as good a guess as anything that caused it to sell so well.

Black vs Black in a black location? Not really a lot of drama and again it is only a guess at what is not selling.

The proven best seller is the Classic Good Guy vs Bad Guy, but the promoters have to advertise. I have seen nothing for selling Bradley/Alexander on regular media, so it's not surprising.

[rjj tszyu]

Wow I didn't realise Detroit was in such a poor state! As for this fight, had it been promoted well enough I would have expected it to sell out in Vegas or at least do good numbers. Boxing needs an injection in the States it seems!

As for a worldwide draw it is doing fine. It's second only to Football in worldwide viewers and a fact that surprised me a bit is that Japan who are so big on the Martial Arts actually watch more boxing than MMA and the only sport with more viewers over there is Sumo Wrestling!!

Bradley-Alexander should have been on a Toshiaki Nishioka undercard in japan

[uwey]

JMM v Katasidis drew a small crowd for that fight but Arum says that low attendances are common, that Leonard and Hagler fought on the same bill and only about 4,000 came to watch.

That number is typical for a big fight in Vegas. It takes the news media and the like to create cross-over interest in a fight. Olympic known fighters have the advantage when it comes to being a cross-over star. Promoter's don't have the formula on how to create a cross-over star although that is exactly what they want everyone to believe.

No one ever expected Staples to sellout (over 20K) for Margarito / Mosley because Mosley was getting old but it's a huge Latino market in Los Angeles. Black vs Hispanic makes a lot of drama, is as good a guess as anything that caused it to sell so well.

Black vs Black in a black location? Not really a lot of drama and again it is only a guess at what is not selling.

The proven best seller is the Classic Good Guy vs Bad Guy, but the promoters have to advertise. I have seen nothing for selling Bradley/Alexander on regular media, so it's not surprising.

Damn that make sense. Great point.