Fury v Chisora - Testing Positive for Negative Buzz?

It's awful considering the cost of the event (ie the fighters) and how they've hyped it. And 13k is a lie as only half a 21k arena went on sale and there's plenty of tickets left

 

As of yesterday it had sold 10,267 tickets according to Eventim.

That is with 11 days to go and many people expected to buy tickets on the door.

To contextualise that is already more tickets sold than every Froch fight up until Kessler II.

It's going to be a big crowd in the scheme of things and surely good for boxing?!?

Didn't Arreola and Stiverne fight for the World Title in front of 3,000?!

 

most of his fights were in an arena that had an 8k capacity thats why

 

Absolutely, but they were still selling tickets for Froch vs Bute on the night at the door.

This will do somewhere between 12 ,000 & 14,000 I imagine.

I don't understand the hate ... that is a huge number for a boxing match ... and these guys are 25 & 30, very young for Heavyweights - [ novice Anthony Joshua is 24 & David Price is 31].

Generally you keep increasing your fanbase if you keep winning big fights so to do these numbers has to be really good news for British Boxing and Heavyweight boxing??

 

If it's less than a sell-out it's a massive failure. Fury is getting 7 figures for this, there are a billion undercard fights too. Do you think they've budgeted for a crowd of £13k for an arena you could get 21 thousand into?

Of course not.

 

as others have said the problem is the cost of the event (ie the purses for the main event, and as we all know fw pays more than Eddie) and the ticket sales won't cover that (looks like loads of the expensive tickets are still on sale which is bad news), never mind the 16 undercard fights which would probably add probably another million to the cost base.

Had he given them a reasonable purse that the event warrants (not too deep into 6 figures) then it wouldn't be as bad, but when you hype something up as a superfight and the place is half full it's pretty embarrassing and expensive

But agree on neither of them fighting kilt - don't think he's too bothered about the wbo belt so doubt they'd be able to force him into fighting one of these two

 

The winner will fight Vlad, Fury is 4 in the WBO and Chisora is Number 1 in the rankings.

 

Complete bollocks. Wlad's had his WBO mandatory and there is no evidence it will come around again any time soon.

It's FW doing the usual and deceiving the average boxing fan.

 

The reality is Wlad will fight who he wants when he wants - mandatory or not...all we can hope for is that in his advanced age he wants to just fight the best before he leaves....stiverne,Pulev, Wilder, Fury etc are all interesting fights - lets hope we see some of them.

I'm just surprised that Warrren hasn't tried to bring david Haye's name into it to face the Winner