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

No,not really.

Your original question is if a person is adraw or not.

Whether a person watches from home,or goes to the fight,the person is still shelling out money. Thats what makes them a draw.

 

The thread title is misleading. You can't say that you want the biggest draw, and then say the only criteria is tickets sold. Tickets sold do not necessarily tell you about a fighters drawing power. Imagine if fighter A fought in a 80,000 seat stadium, the tickets were $1 a piece , and 78,000 tickets were sold. Now imagine fighter B fighting in a 70,000 seat stadium, the tickets averaged $1,000 a piece, and the fight sold out in under an hour. Who's is the bigger draw? Simply looking at the tickets sold will tell us jack ****.

 

Bute in his homeland, on National Arena in a decent match up with a belt on the line he could easily sell 30.000 seats.

You need to keep it real and referee to the existing facts and not our suppositions, tough.

 

I did a search for some fights...


Wlad-Haye +63.000

Wlad-Chagaev +61.000

Wlad-Chambers +51.000

Pacquiao-Clottey 50.994

Calzhague-Kessler 50.150

Wlad-Mormeck +50.000

Pacquiao-Margarito 40.150

Haye-Chisora 30.000

Márquez-Fedchenko 25.000

Hatton-Senchenko 20.000

Chávez jr.-Martínez 19.168

Cotto-Margarito II 17.943

Hopkins-Pascal I 17.743

Hopkins-Pascal II 17.560


The next numbers are estimated or reported pre-fight, so can c

 

19.000 Vitali against Solís.

 

You can't just do it in average gate though. Froch only gets about 10k to a lot of his fights because he wants to fight in his home town and that is the biggest arena other than a football stadium (which is not a modern one so might not even be suitable).

Other fighters choose to fight in Vegas as they will earn more money from that selling 14,500 tickets at a higher price than filling a 60,000 seater football stadium.

The klitschko's don't fight in Vegas as they are not a massive (relative to mayweather, pac, dlh, hatton) draw outside of Germany and Eastern Europe. So they couldn't get 14,500 buying tickets at a minimum of $350's and and $2500+ for ringside.

In Germany they have a very good fan base but not many fans who would travel to the other side of the world to watch them.

But I am pretty sure if PAC or mayweather fought in the UK or Germany they would sell the place out. Not because of travelling fans but because of who they are in the sport. They are massive draws! They can go anywhere and sell out. They fight in Vegas because that is where the money is.

 

You're clueless. Nobody outside of hardcore boxing fans in Germany knows who PAC or Mayweather are, they have zero mainstream media exposure in Europe. None at all.

Mayweather vs Guerrero wouldn't even fill a 5,000 venue in Germany.

 

Sorry, I just thought as a nation they were boxing fans. I just assumed, my bad.

I can tell you they would both sell out in the UK though.

 

lewis vs tyson must be up there

 

Mayweather could sell Wembley out against a decent opponent IMO. Not so sure Pacquaio could, but he'd definetly sell 30-40k in the UK, maybe more

 

Are they really known there? Why? I mean all theire fights are in the USA and therefor in a **** time to watch for europeans. Is it because Hatton got his ass kicked against them?:think

 

Which one of those are current fighters ?

 

The indoor record is for Ali...


Largest Indoor Boxing Attendance



Muhammad Ali vs Leon Spinks
Sept-1978, Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana. 63,315 where in attendance to witness Muhammad Ali avenge his split decision loss to Spinks seven months earlier


http://www.ringlivesports.info/boxing/boxing-records/