Comments Thread For: Hearn: Wilder-Fury Has Only Sold 8,000 Tickets; Not A Good Look

[daggum]

Wilder-Fury is a big fight; if you want to put the lion's share of the interest in Los Angeles on a guy who's had one fight in the US and maybe 3 fights that significant numbers of the American audience has seen, that's on you.

Wilder can sell tickets in Alabama, Wilder can sell tickets in Brooklyn, and Wilder has even shown a bit of ability to sell tickets in Las Vegas.

Let's see how he does in LA

yeah but alabama is a re-tarded place with no money. even if you built wilder into the biggest star alabama has ever seen that wouldn't be 1 percent of being a meh star in california.

[Laligalaliga]

my friends wife even knows who wilder is from that WAGs of Atlanta show and he even got here interested to watch wilder/ortiz...wilders name is definitley climbing

Wilder being the longest champ in HW boxing and also from the state with 40 fights, his name shouldn't be climbing like a prospect. He should be a house hold name if he had done the right things early in his career.

Wilder shouldn't have problems putting 21k people to sit in the arena.

[Scipio2009]

Joshua klitchcko was sold out in hours ..that's 90k so wow imagine how many millions they sold in the 1st hour lol
Jesus talk about desperate...is wilder vs fury sold out yet ?

Joshua-Klitschko sold 90000 and maybe drew $10m. $110 per ticket; suck on that clown.

Wilder-Fury, on the official ticket hosting site (AXS.com), has maybe 1000 tickets left for sale.

Even if they didn't stage the venue for the full ~20000 seats (Santa Cruz-Mares put 12k+ into a Staples Center staged for ~14k), at $1000-$75, Wilder-Fury is still likely already over $3m at the gate, lol (and drastically significantly higher than that once the actual tickets sold gets put out there).

Stage the full 20000 seats, and a sellout in LA likely comes close to matching what took Joshua-Klitschko over 4 times the number of tickets to draw.

[Scipio2009]

ok so they get a 7% of that 40 or 35 dollars depending on the cost of 80 dollars or 75 dollars... ok say 40 dollars as a over the top price because it's 75 I believe ...ok 30 dollars to fight lol ..Joshua sells 4 or 5 times the amount of 300k do the maths dummy..you seem to have some sort of ******ation to understand 300k figures lol...ok 32 dollars for a 300k ..that's 9.6 million revenue slit 50/50 ..4.8 million for donkey when he could have got 15 million from Joshua in April ..it's seems to be intelligence wise you are on his level lol

So Sky Sports gets zero as the distributor of the PPV in the UK? lol

[Laligalaliga]

Wilder-Fury is a big fight; if you want to put the lion's share of the interest in Los Angeles on a guy who's had one fight in the US and maybe 3 fights that significant numbers of the American audience has seen, that's on you.

Wilder can sell tickets in Alabama, Wilder can sell tickets in Brooklyn, and Wilder has even shown a bit of ability to sell tickets in Las Vegas.

Let's see how he does in LA

Obviously he is not doing well in LA.

[_Rexy_]

So Sky Sports gets zero as the distributor of the PPV in the UK? lol

Sky sports does it out of the kindness of their hearts.

[Laligalaliga]

Joshua-Klitschko sold 90000 and maybe drew $10m. $110 per ticket; suck on that clown.

Wilder-Fury, on the official ticket hosting site (AXS.com), has maybe 1000 tickets left for sale.

Even if they didn't stage the venue for the full ~20000 seats (Santa Cruz-Mares put 12k+ into a Staples Center staged for ~14k), at $1000-$75, Wilder-Fury is still likely already over $3m at the gate, lol (and drastically significantly higher than that once the actual tickets sold gets put out there).

Stage the full 20000 seats, and a sellout in LA likely comes close to matching what took Joshua-Klitschko over 4 times the number of tickets to draw.

You are not making any sense bro. What exactly are you talking about?

[Laligalaliga]

What is the pride in over paying for an event and been ripped off while denying the fans the opportunity to go see a fight live.

The US pricing model is part of their problem and they keep complaining boxing is not the main stream sport. How can it be when you use your pricing system to chase fans away from the sport.

Adopt UK pricing system and see stadium fights in the US. That's the beauty of the sport. Wilder is finding difficult to sell a 21k arena, why? "the price".

If the price is/was $30, it would have been sold out to be honest. This is the only way to improve the sport in the US.

[_Rexy_]

What is the pride in over paying for an event and been ripped off while denying the fans the opportunity to go see a fight live.

The US pricing model is part of their problem and they keep complaining boxing is not the main stream sport. How can it be when you use your pricing system to chase fans away from the sport.

Adopt UK pricing system and see stadium fights in the US. That's the beauty of the sport. Wilder is finding difficult to sell a 21k arena, why? "the price".

If the price is/was $30, it would have been sold out to be honest. This is the only way to improve the sport in the US.

Doesn’t matter the ticket price when there is 5000 things to do on any given night. Ever been to Vegas? New York? Los Angeles? On any given Saturday night a sports fan can go watch a baseball game, basketball game, hockey game, boxing match, wrestling, the list goes on.

[Laligalaliga]

Doesn’t matter the ticket price when there is 5000 things to do on any given night. Ever been to Vegas? New York? Los Angeles? On any given Saturday night a sports fan can go watch a baseball game, basketball game, hockey game, boxing match, wrestling, the list goes on.

It doesn't matter if there are 10000 events to do on a fight night. US has appropriately 350mil people, with the right pricing system, the US will experience a stadium fight and still make as much money as expected.

Take it or leave it, boxing is gradually turning to a celebrity sport in the US.

Thank goodness for hearn and DAZN for trying to turn things around. It might take a little while but am sure it will work.