is greater manchester home of Brit boxing now?

The flaw in your argument is that the MEN wasn't half full either....

 

I would say so, ive been to see hatton a few times, calzaghe, harrison, and was at the khan barrera fight wich were all held at the m.e.n arena, its a cracking venue and always packed, but fans come from all over the place for these events. manchester is alot easier to get to for us scots as its only a 3 hour drive away.

 

Just out of interest, did Kotelnik have a legit tooth injury, or is the unofficial "word" that ticket sales at the O2 were shite, so FW moved it to the MEN where it could potentially do better business?

Fat lot of good that did. And robbed me out of £45 for a non-refundable hotel room in London for June 18atsch

 

Cobbler it was definately more than half full. Not by much but the top tier was closed the rest was pretty much packed.

Yes it is. Manchester has better boxers and more coverage. On Sat you had thousands there to support the likes of Hall, Khan and a lot of love for Enzo and Gavin too. There's less of an atmosphere in London and the MEN is still probably the best arena in the UK

 

Give over. It's Nottingham. Froch will pull in 10,000 for Dirrell.

Wheras Khan had less than 6000.

 

with a name like that you have no right commenting in this thread atsch

 

manchester is def homew of boxing un the uk ,good to see the proper city of England get recognisation ,also mancs are a lot friendlier than londoners .always like a trip to manchester

 

Im hoping to get to that fight, so il beable to judge for myself

 

well said the only problem with manc is there are no real top class boxing shops for training gear

 

Manchester producing good fighters is nothing new - Robin Reid, Ricky Hatton, Carl Thompson, just to name some World Champions there -

 

Matt your bang on there. I went looking for some new boots last year and proper struggled. Ended up borrowing my mates old skool adidas ones for the fight which I prefered anyway coz they were top. White go up to near the knee. Think there's a few around surrounding towns like Cheetham Hill etc etc

 

I wouldn't say there are more boxing fans in Manchester. If there was a top quality fighter from Newcastle or Sunderland you would see big attendances. It just happens that there are alot of talent from Manchester therefore people from that area are more likely to attend.

 

But there aren't so it probably is