Why Is It The Standard To Have All Major PPV Fights In Vegas?

vegas has casinos and thats a big part of the income for fights over a weekend.

 

My guess is casinos.

That and it's already been ****ed into people's minds that Vegas=SUPERBIGFIGHTBUYBUYBUY and promoters are scared to even tinker with that notion.

 

in a word Gambling

 

All down to the money generated in the casinos through the weekend. Very few places can compete

 

Maybe because it's the hometown of Don King?

 

Where else in the world are you going to hold a fight that everyone can come to and have a great time outside the fight? Then to top it off you have the gambling angle.

The only other city that holds an event like a big fight as well as Vegas in the US is New Orleans.

 

Because the casinos are willing to pay a site fee to the promoters, whereas at other venues you need to rely solely on the live gate.

 

To be fair seeing as how the casino businesses seem to be struggling, maybe it's time for a change up.

 

Cleveland?

 

I would think you could negociate better deals from teh promoters perspective if the casinos are strugling

 

......and Frauding. :hat

 

if the formula is working, then why change it?

 

Most of you are saying casino's, do you guys than mean that the casino's are paying the TV stations/promoters money for all the people that the boxing brings there? Or in what other way?:think

 

They don't pay the TV stations, but they do pay the promoters. For most events, you need to pay the arena for use of the arena, which cuts way into profits. The casinos will let you use the arena for free, and for big events, will pay the promoters/fighters to take the fight there. For example, the reason Hopkins/Calzaghe got made is because Planet Hollywood actually paid an $8M site fee. The site fee for DLH-Mayweather was rumored to be around $20M. That's a whole lot of extra free money just to fight in Vegas.