So may be all them amatuars looking to turn pro should spend less time in the gym and running and more time socialising and gaining a fan base lol!!! I mean what if a kid is more talented and skilled with world class potential... his still got to be able to compete at world class and looked after even if 10 people are turning up for their fights. Aint that what happened with Hagler :huh
Alba - Been involved in an EBF show. Tickets were £35, boxers cut a tenna and £15 if he sold over 10. "Promoter" put me in with an expierienced fighter, who sold at least 80 and that "promoter" now has a pro license. Also from what I have gathered speaking to pro's.
Not denying that you have to train hard to be a pro but pro boxing is business to the promoters putting on shows and few care at all about quality as long as people pay to see. In amateur, the clubs put shows on to keep the club running, the money is put into the club and the club's organise shows. Amateur is all about the sporting side.
You must sell tickets unless you fight away.. It's a pain in the arse but there are good strategies to help. Sometimes I do loads sometimes I do hardly any it's well annoying chasing people etc
It's extremely difficult and from the promoter's perspective you often don't know where you are on sales until right before the event. White knuckle time.
Especially annoying when you get people saying definitely they'll have tickets, they're well up for it, etc (so you get X amount of tickets from the promoter based on this), then when it comes to it they back out and make excuses. The ultimate crux of it is most boxers basically won't be given the opportunities to box on any shows (unless they go in as the "opponent") if they don't sell enough tickets. So if you're going to buy a ticket to a show in your area, get it from one of the boxers instead rather than the box office. Help a lad to fight! :good
Call me tight or whatever, but I don't think I should be penalised because I want to buy a ticket. What's even worse is that the fee is more the higher the ticket price. So if I want to be a snob and sit at ring side, not only will the ticket by twice/three times more expensive but I'll have to find an extra tenner in booking fees, that I should never have had to pay in the first place :fire
It's an odd one. I imagine coming from a big boxing family could help but you surely have to get out and socialize to maximize your ticket selling potential, of course this might directly go against the need to be in the gym, improving your skills. Its a balance you'd have to achieve. If you were a popular amateur or have a boss whose willing to buy loads of tickets this could help. Are there any boxers who managed to get loads of fans, specifically non-boxing people along to shows before they became famous, big names on tv?
ive heard hes really good at ticket sales ,same with the walshes and there farmer friends . Lee McAllister is a ticket selling machine, does more than Etches .