Calzaghe-Hopkins in Yankee Stadium?

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  1. BG91

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    PhilBoxing.com Wed, 02 Jan 2008

    The historic Yankee Stadium in Bronx, New York, has been chosen as the venue for the titanic showdown between Bernard "The Executioner" Hopkins and England's Joe Calzaghe set for April 13, 2008.

    The Yankee Stadium has been home to some thirty memorable boxing championships, including the famous 1938 Joe Louis victory over Germany’s Max Schmeling. It also hosted Pope Paul VI when he celebrated mass before an 80,000+ crowd in 1965.

    http://philboxing.com/news/story-14385.html
     
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  2. dan-b

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    Has this fight even been confirmed yet?
     
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  3. ThePlugInBabies

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    :lol:

    is there another joe calzaghe that we don't know about?
     
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  4. sean

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    they announce the venue before they announce the fight.

    i dont think so
     
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  5. BigBone

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    The bigger the arena/stadium the louder the Calzaghe fans will be. Las Vegas is the site Joe wants but at a stadium on the East Coast, like the Yankee, makes more sense. He would get a larger fan support, his fans could make a trip a lot cheaper and Hopkins could get a few thousand of his own supporters.

    I'm not from the US, so help me out. Isn't the Yankee an open stadium? Placing the fight in NY in april wouldn't be a risk because of the time of the year?
     
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  6. ThePlugInBabies

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    i'm extremely skeptical about how many fans will follow him over there tbh. this isn't going to be a ricky hatton esque invasion.
     
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  7. UKFightFan

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    You mad?
     
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  8. dan-b

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    Agreed. A lot of the Hattons fans that went out there were just that, Hatton fans. They are not boxing fans but mainly football fans that jumped on the bandwagon & took their moronic football mentality to the fight hence the disgraceful booing of the American national anthem.
     
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  9. robpalmer135

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    He will get at least 10,000 coming over.
     
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  10. ThePlugInBabies

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    joe doesn't have that sort of hardcore fanbase.
     
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  11. BigBone

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    Maybe, but 50.000 of his 'not that sort of hardcore fans' has broken every record in the UK for boxing. If it just a flight to the other side of the ocean, I see a louder fan support than Hatton's in the Mayweather fight. Of course 3 times the fans who could buy a ticket to the fight had to watch somewhere else in Vegas. Now think that they would ALL have a seat in the stadium. If it is the half of Hatton's support it still would be the double in the stadium.
     
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  12. ThePlugInBabies

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    LOLZ!!!1111ONEONE```11111

    hopkins has an american passport so he wins by default

    LMAO!!!111111ONEONE

    PWNAGE!!!
     
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  13. ThePlugInBabies

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    me no bet money, ever.

    will quite happily give you a time off bet though.
     
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  14. TFFP

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    Joe will take maybe a few thousand over there, and they will be a great deal more civilised than Hatton's lot

    I will of course be booking my tickets forthwith
     
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  15. rusticraver

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    I reckon he'll take 10k...

    Problem is most people like me would be more excited about Calzaghe vs. Dawson / pavlik etc than an old Hopkins.

    Cos imo Hopkins can't win unless he KO's Calzaghe and with his chin no chance
     
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