Bradley - Alexander ticket sales?

Bradley did mention 2000 like a week ago

 

i never heard Al state 13k, i was only half paying attention tho

 

i doubt its at 13k, i think they set the silverdome up to only seat like 7k

 

They configured the stadium to be 15,000 at the Silverdome. 13 K would be surpisingly great.

 

There is no way 13k will be SOLD for this fight. Maybe if they are giving them away for free on the street corner of Detroit, they can approach that number for attendance.

Nobody knows who these fighters are outside of hardcore boxing fans, and a handful of people in St Louis.

 

Jesus ****ing christ this is twice in two days I'm agreeing with Karceno.

 

@ Vec, m8 try to think a little bit about what you're saying here.

13,000 is a VERY unlikely attendance for two fighters that are practically unknown to the mainstream audience, outside of a few cities in the US.

 

Ridiculous.WTF is this fight being held in Detroit anyway?They will be lucky to hit 3000,and that is if they give the tickets away for free,which they are probably doing at this point.Terrible promotion.

 

this should be on MLK day..maybe it will bump up ticket sales due to the holiday.

 

Bradley/Alexaner = Black eye to boxing, money wise...Can somebody explain this to me? 2 undefeated black fighters..................400 tickets.......shameful ****.

 

Regardless of the fighters’ personalities, and the plain fact that the fight belonged in St. Louis (where Alexander is a moderate draw in comparison to Bradley’s dismal numbers in Southern Calif.), I can’t help but think that the promoters of the card (Gary Shaw and Don King) dropped the ball on the local promotion of the show. It seems like everyone involved was more concerned with how much they’d get paid rather than with building the “event” into an attraction for Pontiac- and Detroit-area fight fans.

The promoters went with the SilverDome because they got a good site fee ($600,000) but the moment that freakin’ cavern became the location they should have done everything in their power to put local attractions on the undercard.

It’s going to take a lot more than Vernon Paris to get folks to drive from Detroit and other areas surrounding Pontiac and plunk down their very hard-earned cash for tickets.

Why isn’t newly crowned junior middleweight beltholder Cornelius Bundrage on this card? “K9” is a Detroit native and he’s promoted by King.

Ronald Hearns should be on this card. I know he’s got an alphabet middleweight title shot at Felix Sturm scheduled in Germany next month but if the promoters had their act together they would have secured the venue for the bout a long time ago. Perhaps if Shaw and King could have found a site sooner than Dec. 1 (two months after the damn fight was finalized) they would have sold more tickets (which didn’t go on sale until Dec. 20) and they might have landed the son of a Detroit legend before the Sturm-Hearns fight was agreed to (Dec. 30).

Even without the Hitman‘s son on the card, they could enlisted the services of the great Thomas Hearns to help promote the event locally. Yeah, they would have had to pay Tommy a little something, but with the site fee and the licensing fee they’re getting from HBO, I think they could’ve afforded it. And given what’s at stake, the future marketability of Bradley and Alexander, I think they should’ve afforded it.

The last time I was in the Pontiac area was for an internet broadcast of local fringe contender Rubin Williams and a not-yet-shot Antwun Echols from The Palace in Auburn Hills, Mich., in January of 2007. More than 10,000 fans were on hand to witness the main event (which ended in an entertaining 12-round draw), but it wasn’t Williams or Echols who sold those tickets. It was female fighter Mary Jo Sanders (the daughter of Detroit Lions legend Charlie Sanders) who brought the crowd in.

Sanders hasn’t fought since earning a 10-round draw against Holly Holm at The Palace in October of 2008, but if I were promoting this event I would have made her a very attractive offer to come out of retirement. I would have done pretty much anything it took to put butts into the seats because it’s not going to look good for the main event participants -- the two very talented young boxers who we all hope can be developed into “stars” -- to have to fight in an empty arena that can hold as many as 90,000 fans.

How is it going to help the future negotiating power of the winner of Bradley-Alexander when everyone involved with the sport knows they couldn’t sell more than a few thousand tickets against each other?

I don’t want to hear a lot bellyaching from Shaw or from King (or from loudmouth message board trolls) if Amir Khan (and Golden Boy Promotions) insists that an eventual showdown between the British star and the Jan. 29 winner takes place in the UK.
http://www.ringtv.com/blog/2716/dougies_monday_mailbag/

 

The fight should have been in or around St Louis.
Whether Bradley's team like it or not he cant draw a fly in California.
Alexander would have got near 15,000 in St Louis to the fight.

 

**** no..if you're gonna lose, its going to be on a neutral AND empty venue.

 

Especially in a shithole like Detroit.

 

I really can't believe this fight isn't selling.

Can some one explain to me why a fight between two potential superstars, BOTH undefeated and both regarded as top dogs in their division, both American IN America, can't sell?

The excuse is 'bad promotion'? Bad promotion should mean the difference between 20,000 and 50,000. It shouldn't even need Promoting!

I can't fathom it.