Anybody else getting tired of big fights being held in Vegas?

This is true...But for now the U.S is still the mecca of boxing, with Vegas the Kaaba. Its a financial thing, it makes the promoters more money.

 

It don't get any better than Vegas.

 

I always like to see MSG being used. And Ali proved that if the fight is big enough, you can hold it anywhere..

 

Yeah have it in London. It'd be good for the sport.

 

Yeah & lets stop pandering to the yanks & have fights at an hour that suits British fans instead of all this 3am **** we have to put up with. As Scotty said if it's big enough you can hold it anywhere

 

Kaaba is the big black rectangular stone thing in Mecca.

Medina is the second most sacred city in Islam, after Mecca.

Yeah, I'm being a smartass.


Anyway, they cant stage the fight in the Philippines. The ticket prices for bleacher seats would probably equal 1 or 2 months worth salary of an average minimum wage earner.

Only foreigners and the very rich Filipinos could afford to see the fight live.

MSG is a good alternative to Vegas, if the fight's gonna be in the US.

 

More money in pimping a fight out to a casino.

 

If you held it out in the open and had 150,000 watching you could keep the ticket prices down....and it makes for much more of a spectacle

 

:yep

Thats what I mean...the U.S as a country is the place, Vegas is the land mark where Arum, De la Hoya and King walk around clockwise.

 

I am sick of it as everytime there's a decent fight announced I get about 4 months notice to try to save for it, costs me a bomb! Which is why I'm not going to Hatton v Pac but Haye v Vit instead. Vegas is awesome, but I cant afford to go to every decent fight they hold there!

As I wrote the above the thought occurred to me... Hatton v Pac will be on Arum's promotion. Now, although ticket sales would be higher in Wembley for example, the promoter will get more money from a casino for staging it there which is then obviously filtered to the fighters. Now, dont Haye and Vitali promote themselves? Interesting that the boxers, whose necks are on the line, are happy to take less cash and have the fight in a country of one of the boxers involved, whereas the promoter is chasing the dollar...

Generalisation I know, but I do think that we may start seeing a switch in the next few years where promotion companies fronted by boxers actually deliver what the fans want and as a result start having more influence in the sport!

 

We did that once, back in the mid 1990's.

It was at the Luneta Park, open air, late afternoon to evening.

Luisito Espinosa vs Cesar Soto
WBC(?) Featherweight title defense

Even the Philippine president came to watch, front row.

Hundreds of thousands of people came to watch. It was for free.

We won. :yep

I very much doubt that the promoters will do something like that. There's way too much money to be earned if they stage it elsewhere.

 

:yep

 

As dumb as this sounds, I wish a fight would be held in San Francisco. If a Mexican-Filipino Card was held at the Cow Palace it would do tremendous business. The venue would be cheap and they could get 10,000 people easily. Or even if they held it in San Jose at the HP Pavilion, it would do killer. Even in Oakland at the Coliseum, people would turn out in droves

 

Vegas would be like Mecca if Mecca was a place where local businessmen paid for the Kaaba to be situated in order to attract more custom for their businesses and charged extortionate prices to see it meaning that the Hajj consisted of a number of high rollers and famous faces at the front and a smattering of regular Muslims further back, whereas the majority where forced to pay to watch tv coverage of it from their homes. This would have had the effect of making a number of people who might have been Muslims to instead choose more accesible religions.