Article on the Main Page about Las Vegas not being a major player in the Megafights!

Damn, that about sums it up. Great post Jack:good

 

Good points Jackstrodamus Presscot.

Boxing is changing, and it's only hope is the new blood. Let's hope that the upcoming crop of prosepects isn't overly protected or unevenly matched for too long.

The up&commers are the ones fighting in smaller venues and at much more reasonable prices...we at OTG Radio intend to closely follow the careers of the sports prospects, in hopes of finding those who are the future of boxing...and helping them to get where they are going any way we can.

As the old promoters (of which DLH might as well be one, with his business practices which are sometimes considered worse) may possibly start dying off this year, maybe somebody in boxing can begin to follow Dana White's lead.

 

Keep up the good work:good

 

Thanks for the heads up, Jack.

Vegas is hurting badly right now, and not just for boxing. It's really going downhill quickly from what I've heard.

It's amazing, just a few years ago it was one of the fastest growing cities in the USA.

Here's another example of how bad the economy is right now: One of the American football teams, the Minnesota Vikings, had to get two extensions and have one of their players literally begging fans to buy tickets in order to sell the game out and avoid a local TV blackout. And the team has the leading rusher (running back) in the league and the city is very much pro football.

Tough economic times all around.

 

Signs of bad economy goes back 2 years now, Jackstradamus, who forecasts by phonecall.

But nice post based on an artical which was based on another article. The whole LV='Mecca of Boxing' tale was based on casinos paying to use that title (site fee), these days are maybe over. Bad? Hardly... finally big arenas/stadiums with cheap tickets and promoters forced to do good promotional stuff? Like back in the old days? Hell yes!

Or will Dubai buy out the Mecca of Boxing brand? 'Battle in the Berj'? 'Boxing in Burj'? 'Fight on the 200th floor'? Well, for PacMan and Hatton fans it makes no difference, it's the same trip. Less drama at the borders, a bit more cost and no alcoholic beer (?). But PacMan-Hatton should go to The Philippines or Wembley, and we all know that.

As Jack rightfully pointed out, promoters doing the exact opposite they should, and will lose to a White boy. Casino fees are the first to go, but what if HBO decides to pull a Solo Boxeo? What if they'll say $5Mil is too much risk for certain superfights? Promoters depend on site fees and TVs. Sites depend on selling expensive tickets and hotel rooms, but the ticket sales are dropping, and HBO depends on PPV revenue but people refuse to do large numbers, and the oldies are going out.

In terms of match-ups, 2009 looks awesome. On a financial side though, it can be a poor year. But at least promoters like Oscar or Bobby will be forced to go to the stadiums and sell cheap, but many tickets. The crowds can bring boxing back to the top.

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Arum and DLH are big.
But not THAT big!

 

Who's Toney fighting next cuz it seems it ain't gonna be Thompson after all?

 

I agree with you. Boxing should be held at the culture center cities like NY or Los Angeles so that even if fans do come in there is stuff to do around town while they are not at the fight. I mean, if you are flying in to Vegas you have to bring a shitload of extra cash cuz you are in Vegas! Not so much so than if you were flying to Los Angeles or NY. Plus, the amount of ticket sells that would be taken up by the tristate area as well is staggering.

I kinda like the idea of opening up arenas with tons of cheap seats as Oscar did against Forbes. Maybe now that Oscar took his assbeating he could become a full time promoter because he did have innovative ideas but he is going to wait until he is fully retired to implement them.

 

The stuff they are doing in Dubai is amazing.

 

It's about time you changed your avy. Every time we had to look at the last one you had we would just not enter your thread at all, insult you or just :dead! Fans are tired of seeing fights where it looks like one guy is supposed to dominate the other.

After winning a controversial fight over Marquez, Arum proceeded to kill us fans by making fights for PAc with Diaz and Dlh. We had three good fights in Marquez-PAcquiao, Cotto-AM, and Hop-Pavlik in 2008. There were a few unnecessary ppv fights that us fans thought weren't ppv worthy, but how as a fan can we complain to a higher up which fights are worthy of being ppv or not? That would be like someone else telling you how to make or spend your money.

Do to the fact that the heavyweight champ is also not popular or his promoter giving fans a competitive heavyweight title fight is hurting boxing. It isn't that the champ is from another country. Wlad brings no life or exposure to boxing or their fans, and the heavyweight champ is more than likely the most known, and the baddest man on the planet. The MMA will be dead soon so they can have Vegas. Boxing needs evenly matched fights. It only takes one big fight to bring boxing back. Boxing doesn't need Vegas, boxing needs big fights! A time for change is always necessary! Boxing doesn't need Vegas.

 

I agree with everything except to blame Bush. The financial meltdown started with Democrat leaders and Clinton during his administration who made promises to people with lower incomes that anyone who wanted to should be able to buy a house. Because there were millions who would not usually qualify with the current guidelines those guidelines were compromised to allow absolutely horrendous loans to be made including adjustable rate loans. Not to be left out the normally qualified buyers then were allowed to re-finance with terms that allowed 100% and higher loan to values thus depleting all of their equity which then allowed disposable money to be taken out of their homes and used for consumer spending. All guidelines were thrown out the door and anyone who could breathe were GIVEN credit for anything. It became a lending orgy! Those loans then were packaged and sold and resold by the millions as investments to large managed funds, insurance companies, pensions and bank investors. When it came time to adjust those loans people (who normally could not qualify anyway) now could not make their payments and the dominoes started to fall.
It had very little to do with Bush.

 

Look at the crowds the Klitschkos draw and compare. Vitali sold out in MSG, in Germany he gets huge crowds, so does Vlad, they are very exciting fighters, the best out there. They are simply hated because they are European. They are very skilled, big, experienced, and I am tired of hearing so many out right lies about them all these years.