The difficulty of being a pro boxer and selling tickets.

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  1. high tower

    high tower Active Member Full Member

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    How the **** do you sell 100-150 min tickets for min 4 fights every year???

    Especially as it will be against a no mark turning up to lose.

    I don’t know 150 people, let along have 150 who will fork out £40 regularly.

    Hats off to anyone who can do it. I listened to a podcast recently with pro jj hughes who has had to cancel fights and hand back money recently as he can’t shift the 150.

    Also was it always like this??? Or in the past was there more risk on the promoter to get good guys out and maybe take the hit ?
     
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    It is really difficult in the beginning but as your success grows hopefully the ticket sales become easier,helps if your a half decent person
     
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  3. NasalSpray

    NasalSpray Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Are tickets really 40 pound for those events? I'm going to see Josh Taylor and Inoue in Glasgow for 32 pound. Makes you wonder why anyone would pay 40 pound for a small hall show
     
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    cam2010 Member Full Member

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    I think the show in Glasgow is an exception to the rule £32 is cheap ,hope you enjoy the evening I enjoy going to the Hydro
     
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  5. Sphillips

    Sphillips Active Member Full Member

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    35 or 40 minimum normally.
     
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  6. billy nelson

    billy nelson the fighting scots gym Full Member

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    Take a pair of binoculars with you
     
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  7. NasalSpray

    NasalSpray Well-Known Member Full Member

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    That's crazy, id consider myself a boxing fan but no way would pay 40 quid to watch a small hall show
     
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    NasalSpray Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Nah my eyes are fine Billy some of us don't have diabetes
     
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  9. high tower

    high tower Active Member Full Member

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    40 sheets in London. Even for a no frills mickey helliet show at York hall with 20 x ticket seller v TBA
     
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  10. high tower

    high tower Active Member Full Member

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    I prefer amateur boxing. Tenner average and often some elite lever boxers on
     
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    high tower Active Member Full Member

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    What was the setup in the 80/90s. Purely ticket sales to get on the bill like today ?
     
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  12. high tower

    high tower Active Member Full Member

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    Bring your WKD spectacles too
     
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  13. EJC83

    EJC83 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Social Media.

    If you update your Insta everyday with at least one pic or video, comment on related posts etc you can very quickly gain followers, many of which will become fans, if you play you cards right. Then it's down to you, train hard, keep striving to do better and document all of this online, people love that s**t. Look at Dave Allen, he has no amateur background, he's unprofessional, talks a lot of nonsense and he's not even that good a boxer but he sells himself on social media so well. More people know who Dave Allen is than Joe Joyce, Daniel Dubois, Nathan Gorman etc.
     
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  14. high tower

    high tower Active Member Full Member

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    Yeah social media must help a bit. Though being a heavy would have helped him a lot.

    Being in a footie team or other team sport must help. It just seems like a lot of effort to even break even.
     
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  15. cam2010

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    Maybe billy these young ones don’t need artificial viewing aids
     
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