My first post (re: Calzaghe)

Hi guys, long time lurker thought i woukd make my first post today. I noticed on here a couple of days ago talking about the relative merits of Calzaghe v Hopkins in America or at Wembley/Millenium stadium, one of the American guys said it doesnt make any difference to the purse because British fights only cost £5 to get in to, so 75,000 people in the UK would generate the same revenue as 10,000 in the USA.

Well i bought a ticket for the Calzaghe Kessler bout in November, and the seats range from £40-500, bearing in mind its an 80,000 arena and for the cheap tickets your probably sitting 2 miles back and 10,000 feet in the air.

http://www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=259179&filler1=see&filler2=home

Anyway, not the most important issue i know, just one i thought I would comment on

 

so any estimate then on what the live gate $$$ will be if they sell out?

It's got to be some kind of record-setter, considering that £40 = $80

 

its hard to predict at this stage but I think gate receipts could reach £15m

 

i think you could get 100,000 people at wembley for a huge calzaghe or hatton fight

 

Calzaghe is a LOT more desperate for this fight than Hopkins would be. Joe would happily give up home advantage and it's a no-lose fight for him. If he loses, it's against a modern day great. If he wins, he gets great credit. BHop will never come to the UK for this, he really doesn't have to.

 

yeah whoever said £5 for a ticket is some dumb ****

they are predicting the biggest ever indoor crowd for boxing for calzaghe - kessler

70,000 tickets on sale at an average of say £100 (conservative) = £700,000 = $1.4 million

add in all the other **** and you've gone one ****ing massive grossing fight

 

Come on doofus.... 70000 x 100 = 7000000 - That's £7 million ($14m)

 

I'm going to give him 20 quid and tell him to me 4.