No Public Weigh-In For Wlad-Chisora? What the...??

From the Klitschko Facebook page:

"Dear Klitschko fans, unfortunately, the official Weigh-in will not be for the public due to technical conditions.

We're sorry for any inconvenience this may cause! Your Team Klitschko"

I've never heard of such a thing? Technical conditions?

 

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I was hoping for a serious answer....

I don't remember a weigh-in that wasn't public for a Klitschko fight....and to announce 10-days
before the weigh-in that it due to "technical conditions" it won't be public....that seems strange to me.

 

It's just my opinion, but I think that's probably one of the reasons Chisora was selected, because he is from the UK. And as you say, if so there should be more attention to the fight, which not having a public weigh in goes against.

 

Isn't a "public weigh-in", simply allowing some of the general public AND media access. While a weigh-in that's not public, would be media only.

That doesn't seem like a huge difference to me....it doesn't even seem like lack of interest (if that was the case), would be cause to come out and say that the weigh-in wasn't going to be public. But I'm just guessing here....obviously.

 

I just went online to the SAP Arena website to see what tickets it would let me buy. It looks like interest is definitely there (as I thought it would be).

If you add up the available seats in all of the various sections, the SAP arena website is showing 1,022 seats as being available. That covers everything from the farthest seat from the ring, to ringside. The Arena holds around 15,000. So only 1,022 seats available seems like sales are good to me.