Speaking to a tout mate outside wembley on Saturday he said hardly anything was happening buying or selling on Saturday . So if that's the case what happened to the 20k tickets the touts snapped up in march? Bull****? It did look pretty dead to me but I was in the stadium for the Joshua fight so it may of got busier?
It was never going to look rammed as the stadium holds 90k and they were only allowed to sell 80k, add in the extra few thousand seating on the pitch and there was always going to be 15k empty seats or so. During the main event it looked pretty full to me
Thats what i dont get...what happened with the 2,000 less attending than tickets sold...do people just not bother going?? Why not give your ticket away?? Or am i missing something.
Empty seats could be seen everywhere in the stadium including for the main event. The scum touts must have suffered :happy
All right i get it now...they've got too many that they cant/dont shift...leaving them with the extra 2,000 tickets. Pricks!!!
+ people that just don't turn up. When you're talking 80,000 people, life is going to get in the way for some.
My question is, if Mayweather does come to the UK, which is doubtful, can we sell the full 100K as there was lots of space on the pitch and top tier. Would TFL allow it? Apart from a few bellends post-fight there was hardly any trouble or health and safety issues.....
To those who where there, could you actually see anything? 80,000 is a hell of a lot of people and Wembley stadium looks an awfully big place. If Mayweather comes I might make the trip over, but I wouldn't bother if all I'm going to see is two dots moving about in the distance.
TFL would not allow for a fight to take place at the usual US PPV time (4am BST) so it's a bit of non starter. To be fair to Matchroom the actual logistics of the stadium etc worked incredibly well.
Touts got far too greedy for this fight. Something must be done (eg name on ticket and photo ID on day) as the professional ticket agencies and touts are using software to block most of the the general public from buying direct from the website selling the tickets. Most of the tickets for popular events are now only available to the general public through secondary ticketing websites seatwave, stubhub etc. It is a national scandal and about time the government brought in regulation.
Why? We live in a free market economy, and boxing is probably the most ruthless free market sport. If you bring in regulation, then where does it stop? Are you saying I will not be allowed to surprise someone with a ticket because it needs a photo? Are you saying I am not allowed to buy tickets in a package? If I have the money why should I not be allowed to buy as many tickets as I want?