Quote Originally Posted by Master View Post
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.