I found my old ticket stub the other week - £40!! How times have changed. Even better this was when Matchroom first started doing Fightpass (and possibly wasn’t as organised as they should have been) 4 tickets purchased / 5 tickets received - who says Eddie doesn’t offer decent value. Lol Some high profile fighters on the undercard but not many where the home fighter was in any real danger of losing. It was one of the first live boxing shows I had been to and enjoyed the event. Great atmosphere inside the arena.
Was still a lot better than we currently get. Thats my big problem with the ppv,s...the undercards seem to get worse every time. Dave allen...woman boxers. No problem with either of them but lets be honest hearn books them cause their cheap in comparison. Now its 25 quid without all the big names even if they we,re in one sided fights. I never really minded paying for it...meant it kept more boxers going financially as opposed to mayweather or joshua getting an extra 10 million each and fewer boxers benefitting from it. One more thing hearn going on about the bboc should be funding boxing much better at grassroots level. I,d say start with a small percentage of some of these ppv,s. How much do some of them need. If say joshua gets 40 million from a ruiz rematch...say 2 million off that for grassroot level boxings fair i say. Would probably generate more money if people knew it was going back into boxing. Not having a go at joshua cause fair play to him. But meaning any ppv that makes obscene amounts of money...why not start taking a small percentage to go back into the sport.
That ppv would have been £16.95. Prices have gone up 32%. Disgraceful. Happy to renew my rowing club membership.
The line up for the Joshua Pulev undercard is pretty grim for £25. The Okolie fight looks horrible, Fury v Wach isn’t great, Bakole v Kuzmin is so so and the rest isn’t really Saturday Fight Night worthy, maybe NextGen. Prepare for Fast Car listing the fights to Kugan as if it’s one of Don King’s 7 world title fight cards from the 90s.
Fast Eddie has sold the experience to the casuals. Depending on how big your pad is and how many people you have round, £10.00 per head gets you a fridge full of beer, at least 2 giant pizzas and a night of, largely ignored, Boxing.
