Michael Buffer spills the beans about the Wilder v Fury ticket sales

What do you mean there's no number to work with? The Wilder-Fury rematch will be over before Joshua and Miller get in the ring. That's the fight Joshua-Miller will be compared with. Not fights that happened last year.

Fury-Wilder II will take place in NY and they'll step in the ring about 11 p.m. eastern time.

Joshua-Miller will take place in NY and they'll step in the ring about 11 p.m. eastern time.

Same state. Same time. A couple weeks apart. The top two UK heavyweights vs the top two US heavyweights. Both matchups for the heavyweight title.

We'll see who sells the most tickets in NY. Joshua is supposedly the biggest star in the world. Miller is from NY. (Wilder is from Alabama.) Joshua-Miller should have the advantage.

But I think Wilder-Fury II will be the bigger and more profitable fight.

Something tells me Wilder-Fury II sells more. (In the US and the UK)

We'll see who the A-sides are.

 

You know I'm never happy when I see this kind of stuff regardless of how much I like or not like the fighters, I mean it was a really good fight and probably the most high profile for 2018 (or at least one of). If it has poor sales, it's not a good look for boxing as a whole.

 

Did this guy drink the blood of virgins or something? Seriously what's his secret. This guy looks better than most guys and he's an old man.

 

Plastic surgery?Laser surgery?

 

It’s a tough one as yes that is what it would be compared to but wilder-fury has the added sales advantage of the controversial first fight. That fight means it’s a bigger fight than Joshua-Miller. If wilder had knocked fury out in a round then Joshua- miller would do bigger numbers than a rematch or if there was no wilder-fury 1. And the first fight was in UK then Joshua-Miller does bigger numbers. So in many ways the Joshua fight is hamstrung in the way you are comparing the fights. However categorically wilder-fury is the bigger fight. But Joshua is and will continue to be the A side unless wilder does a million buys. As Dazn and sky PPV will back Joshua financially in the eventual wilder-joshua fight. He brings both markets to the table without having to do the work in America.

 

I don't understand you most of the time.

Top two US heavyweights. Deontay Wilder and Jarrell Miller are the top two U.S. heavyweights.

(While Joshua and Fury are the top two UK heavyweights.)

The top two UK heavyweights (Joshua and Fury) are fighting the top two US heavyweights (Wilder and Miller).

Got it?

Joshua is the #1 UK heavyweight vs the #2 US Heavyweight Miller. Wilder is the #1 US heavyweight vs the #2 UK Heavyweight Fury.

Understand?

It's not freaking brain surgery.

 

If if if if if.

The top two UK heavyweights are fighting the top two US heavyweights in the same state at the same time a couple weeks apart.

This is the best comparison yet to see who people will fork down their money to see.

Apples to Apples.

 

I have an old boxing match I recorded in the late 1980s where Buffer is announcing and his hair is grey and he's wearing glasses.

Two months later, he didn't have glasses and his hair was black.

I think we can narrow the moment when he sold his soul to around 1989.

 

Nobody is talking about most decades.

Right now. The top two from the U.K. are fighting the top two from the U.S.

That's all I'm saying. It's a good benchmark for where they will all fall in the pecking order after these two fights.

 

These fugures really do make Warren and Wilder after their comments look rather foolish.