Klitschko-Haye: Now 50,000+ tickets sold after four days

Well this was expected its the biggest heavyweight fight in terms of pre-fight hype since Lewis vs Tyson

 

anybody knows the numbers the fighters are making?

 

This is great, people were a little afraid it wouldn't sell out.

 

Holmes-Cooney had 32,000 in a custom built stadium in Caesar's Palace parking lot.

A few years before Holmes-Ali did 25,000 in the same place.

I don't think we will see anyone in any weightclass coming close to 32,000 in the States which is sad.

Tyson vs Douglas was in Tokyo in the Egg Dome I believe and I am not sure what attendance was.

 

i sense that haye is going to win..

 

HA, and tell me again why boxers should come to the US to fight?

 

wow

 

Awesome! I'm fairly sure the neither Klitschko has fought infront of more than 17,000 recently (Vitali - Peter was 17k and I think most Wlads recent fights have been ~15 to 16k), does this suggest that Haye is fairly significant part of the draw? Or do you think Wlad would have sold so many against Thompson/Rahman etc in a bigger stadium?

 

Vitali vs Sanders did 19k at Staples Center in Los Angeles.

It was the record at that venue for any sport until Margarito vs Mosley did a little over 20,000.

 

For 30,000 and with the same low prices: the latter.

To reach the full capacity of 70,000 or so he needs a charismatic opponent as Haye plus his British fans... he'd likely get the same numbers by fighting cave troll Valuev though cos he's quite well known in Germany.