I saw official attendance was at 15,251 or right about there. Now I know Judah - Cotto drew over 20K after the PR pride parade but I thought the inclusion of Mosley would make up for that. I mean maybe I'm an optimist who thinks that because I'm a boxing fan, everyone else in the sports fan world knew about this fight, and had at least a slight interest, but I was excpecting about 20K attendance and right about 500K ppv buys. If the PPV buys are suprisingly low I'm going to have to face the reality that boxing has dug itslf quite a hole that just one year of great fights and great matchups isn't going to fix. So let me end with a few questions... 1) Anyone know what HBO's cable ratings were for: A. Pavlik-Taylor? B. Calzaghe- Kessler? 2) Early results for PPV buys for Mosley-Cotto? And if not when can we excpect them? 3) Are they anticipating anywhere near 1 million PPV buys for Hatton-Mayweather? Let me say 15K isn't a bad attendance figure, but when one of boxings biggest fights of he year doesn't sell out I have to worry a little about the sports future ( at least here in the U.S for all you 50K Euro's who packed in for JC-Kessler :thumbsup )
Where was I complaining? Just suprised at the announced attendance, but if you were there and say it was full, perhaps the source I got that figure from was a tad off....
I won't say I was disappointed. It was a great crowd, and there were a ton of people there, but I was a little surpised it wasn't as packed as Cotto-Judah. Of course, tickets were much more expensive this time around.
Hmmm got mine from BT... I didn't see many empty seats on Tv. Did they reopen them extra seats this time like they did for Judah-Cotto? Maybe that was the difference...
Oh ****, I did forget that Judah was from Brooklyn, you could tell from the crowd reactions during the entrances that it was almost completly a Cotto crowd... I've never understood why Shane doesn't always draw big crowds..
They did, and there weren't a lot of people in those seats, but there were some seats--not a ton, but enough to that I noticed--in the section right after ringside that were open.
Tix cost 1.5 times as much than they did for Cotto-Judah; that alone should more than make up for the 3000 seats they couldn't sell. There were quite a few open seats between the cameras and press row. However, at $500+ a pop, I think that would be expected.
Judah is a New Yorker. Mosley is a Souther Cali native. Its obvious that Judah would draw a bigger crowd at MSG than Mosley.
