Will Fury Whyte sell out?

I was surprised people didn’t think Fury vs Whyte would sell out when Froch vs Groves was so popular. Heavyweights always have more appeal.

Great to see anyway - hope the fight happens as it should be a great event.

 

I can’t remember who it was but someone on here was giving me complete waddle that Fury can’t sell tickets over here. The point I made is that Fury has turned into a bonafide superstar since he last fought in England. He was well received after beating Klitschko but didn’t capture the casual markets imagination - the promotion of the fight wasn’t great but people knew and respected Fury after that. Then obviously we had 3 years of the AJ show, and then Fury returned and beat Wilder he has become a national icon.

The guy I argued with cited poor US ticket sales (selling tickets in the USA, more notably, Vegas, is completely different as most people will watch in Casino’s) but I said he will sell like hot cakes when he came back, which he has.

I joined the queue half an hour after they went on sale and I was 156,000 odd in the queue which is madness. I understand touts will have took a good amount (my understanding is they estimated 25% of tickets are with touts now) but it’s no different to an AJ fight.

 

Valid point, and I do think that there was a stroke of luck involved in GG/Froch being a fight that warranted being held in such a big venue, but there was a major outcry at the time because of the first fight. I think Tyson's numbers here, historically speaking, have always been poor for such a HW that knows how to play the character/person, hence me thinking he could do such numbers as he's shown he's never been able to.

 

Despite his marketing, I get the feeling that generally people find Fury easier to warm to.

He's flawed, we all know that. But he's far more interesting than Joshua in my opinion. Joshua has been marketed well, but I think lots of people could see through it. The Eddie Chambers thing, dubious updates on his Snapchat story and his political comments haven't helped.

I think, above all, he's just devoid of natural charisma and warmth. We all know Fury is inconsistent, contradictory and a bit of a fibber - but I think despite that people can see that deep down he's a good guy. I am not sure if that comes across from Joshua.

Of course, this is just my opinions from knowing neither of them personally. Most people I speak to, boxing fans or not, generally agree with this though.

 

Historically I definitely agree. I think the last couple of years, certainly since Wilder 2, his public profile has rocketed.

Obviously lots of that is down to lots of his social media being managed for him and appearances on late night talk shows etc.. but his PR has transformed since 2015.

 

Bruno v McCall (1995) only sold 23,000 tickets. Not sure if the capacity was limited or it just didn't sell well, can anybody explain this? Eubank v Benn 2 at Old Trafford had a 42,000 attendance in 1993 and was promoted by Don King (although not sure if a British promoter was working alongside him?)

 

Wasn't it Frank Maloney?

 

Frank Warren during his Sky days.

 

He's learned the value of going on things like Good Morning Britain and chatting up Susanna Reid. There was never a moment's doubt he would sell out Wembley as people are hankering for events like this after the last 2 years and he's now a mainstream celebrity.

Fury vs AJ would sell out a stadium with 500,000 seats.

 

Wonder will Eddie still say Fury doesn't deserve 50-50

 

I remember Don king being interviewed ringside for this and introduced as the promoter, nobody else mentioned.

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Video also shows a young Barry McGuigan and the late John McCririck lol

 

Barry Hearn

 

Absolute codshite. You need some fresh air, old bean.

 

Think he meant Bruno vs McCall.

 

Absolutely, but let us not also forget that the undercard for Groves/Froch was actually half decent too with De Gale, Mitchell, McDonnell and Anthony Joshua on the undercard. Not full of home fighter versus TBA fights.