Help me create a list of boxing's top 20 current draws (tickets sold, not PPVs)

Thanks. Kessler is clearly a big seller.

If Bute didn't help sell the fight, then Froch should have done at least as well against Mack, after destroying Bute, right? Why did he not sell out the arena against Mack? I don't know how many American fans went to see Mack fight Froch, but there were hundreds of Romanians who came just because Bute was fighting, both from Romania and from the UK. Pascal sold 17.5k too, remember. I think Froch is just ahead, on the 10k mark now.

1. Wladimir Klitschko 25-40k easily (61k record)
2. Vitali Klitschko 30k easily (43k record)
3. Hatton (although retired) 30-40k? (56k record)
4. Haye 20-22k (30k record)
5. Sergio Martinez (??) (40k?? record) - need to get a handle on this
6. Kessler 15k+
7. Mayweather 15k
8. Alvarez 12k+ (???) - need to get a handle on this though. (35k?? record)
9. Bute 10-12k (16,5k record)
10. Froch 10k (20k?? record vs. Kessler)
11. Pascal 8-10k (17,8k record)
12. Abraham 8-10k (11k record)
13. Stieglitz ??? (11k record)

Does no one else sell 8k+ on a regular basis? What does Pacquiao do? How about the Japanese boys?

 

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1. Wladimir Klitschko 25-40k easily (61k record)
2. Vitali Klitschko 30k easily (43k record)
3. Hatton (although retired) 30-40k? (56k record)
4. Haye 20-22k (30k record)
5. Sergio Martinez (??) (40k?? record) - need to get a handle on this
6. Kessler 15k+
7. Mayweather/Pacquiao 15k
9. Alvarez 12k+ (???) - need to get a handle on this though. (35k?? record)
10. Bute 10-12k (16,5k record)
11. Froch 10k (20k?? record vs. Kessler)
12. Pascal 8-10k (17,8k record)
13. Abraham 8-10k (11k record)
14. Stieglitz ??? (11k record)

Anyone know how well Chris John is doing?

How about the Mexicans? Rios, etc.

How about Cotto?

Adamek?

Khan?

Huck?

Mundine?

Sturm?

Brook?

Groves? DeGale?

Burns? Mitchell?

 

Wow! Yeah! Margarito was a draw, but Clottey not so much. I guess I need to bump him up. Where would you put him in the top 10?

 

Nothing stopping him. Very strange that he hasn't had a fight there since he became huge.

1. Wladimir Klitschko 25-40k easily (61k record)
2. Pacquiao 15-40k (50k)
3. Vitali Klitschko 30k easily (43k record)
4. Haye 20-22k (30k record)
5. Sergio Martinez (??) (40k?? record) - need to get a handle on this
6. Kessler 15k+
7. Mayweather 15k
9. Alvarez 12k+ (???) - need to get a handle on this though. (35k?? record)
10. Bute 10-12k (16,5k record)
11. Froch 10k (20k?? record vs. Kessler)
12. Pascal 8-10k (17,8k record)
13. Abraham 8-10k (11k record)
14. Stieglitz ??? (11k record)

 

Thanks for that! Yeah, you're right!:good

This is what I started to ask for in my opening post.

The motivation behind this was broadly to find out how popular with fans who see the fight with their own eyes a certain fighter is.

However, even if I had a very strict criteria, there's a lot of variables that have cropped up that prevent a valid comparison:-the number of tickets depends very much on the opponent, on the undercard, on the price of tickets, on how much TV is pushing it, etc.

Then, as others have said, popularity can be measured in PPVs, etc/ too. My list takes no account of that at all.

So ultimately, is there much point in sticking to a very strict criteria? Or should I stick with a strict criteria as far as I can, all those things being equal, even if the other variables that I cannot control are much more significant in the grand scheme of things?

Am I not better off just accepting that the list/numbers will be quite rough, and using good judgement to approximate numbers and do the rankings?

Ultimately, what I really want from this is to be able to say something like: Froch is a bigger draw than Ward, and here's the evidence.

What do you think? What is your advice? How should I best do this?

Thanks again!:good

 

Wig, perhaps I should simply list fighters according to the most fans that have seen them live on a certain occasion (record attendance for one of their fights). That would be very simple and fair. And quite meaningful too, I guess. What do you think?

(Headline act only, because the arena is half empty for undercard fights anyway, right?)

 

Damn, sounds like a lot of work.

Do you think the final list would look very different to the current list?

 

Thanks for that! Great stuff! Looks like 10-12k to me on a regular basis. Right?

1. Wladimir Klitschko 25-40k easily (61k record)
2. Pacquiao 15-40k (50k)
3. Vitali Klitschko 30k easily (43k record)
4. Haye 20-22k (30k record)
5. Sergio Martinez (??) (40k?? record) - need to get a handle on this
6. Kessler 15k+
7. Mayweather 15k
9. Alvarez 12k+ (???) - need to get a handle on this though. (35k?? record)
10. Bute 10-12k (16,5k record)
11. Adamek 10-12k (15k record)
12. Froch 10k (20k?? record vs. Kessler)
13. Pascal 8-10k (17,8k record)
14. Abraham 8-10k (11k record)
15. Stieglitz ??? (11k record)