The Trent FM Arena

I nearly suffocated in the toilets..... a 99% concentration of cigarette smoke can do that to you.

The arena was fine, IMO.

 

**** about, i forgot to say about that, i went in bogs an dit was like someone let a smoke grenade off, worse thing ive ever seen. When i went to pascal v froch fight at trent fm they threw people out for doing that. They were way more lax this time imo

 

Agreed.

 

I like the venue, always manage to park close by without paying or any probs.

Food and drink reasonable, a lot of lager louts anf fighting about but no more then you'd expect on a Saturday night to be honest.

The 'big' screens were poor though, at least they got the commentary sorted after the first couple rounds.

 

The views in the arena are excellent, but it can't cope with that number of people. The bogs are woefully tiny and you couldn't get anywhere near the bars unless you were prepared to stand there for ages,which I wasn't.

I enjoy a cigarette now and again, but the smoke in the bogs was terrible. It was just a thick fog. I couldn't wait to get out!!

Security seemed quite good and a few idiots were promptly slung out.

Plenty of Old Bill which is good to see

 

can't be any worse then the excel, which is truly awful, by far the worst boxing arena in the country.

 

The guys arguing over a hot dog were ****ing hilarious :rofl

We were stood near bar 3, the queue was generally pretty short, it must be said.

 

Explain the hot dog bit.

As for the Arena, I really liked it. I hated the people, the price of Chocolate buttons, and the fight itself was a sleeper. The idiots fighting, bloody idiots.

 

The Arena is fantastic venue, there was not much variation food wise, I mean if they served old fashioned chips or fries, business would be booming!! Watching Taylor Abraham on the screens was a luxury to be honest so straining necks watching it wasn't so bad IMO. As for the toilets, most of us go in the to **** or ****, so wasn't really bothered!!

 

I didn't see much fighting apart from a scuffle in the floor seats just before the main event when some bloke got slung out after a second go.

I was inside the arena most of the time. Was there trouble out the back?

 

I picked up a couple of bottles of water early on so I wouldn't have to queue for yonks later.

Interesting that beer was £3.50 a pint, wasn't it. Later on the sunday afternoon I went t watch the Ice Hockey in the arena, and it was down to £3.20. Still a lot, but another example of Boxing fans being mistreated.

 

Most of the fighting I saw seemed to be in the tiered seats actually. The Old Bill were generally prompt enough at sorting things out. Much more frequent than when I was there for Pascal-Froch.

But other than the massive amount of wankers, I rate the arena. It seems most seats have a good view and though the "big" screens weren't ideal, at least we got to see the Abraham-Taylor fight.

 

I saw three different fights. The first was up at at the tiered seats, and they were fully smacking eachother in the face. Both were dragged out promptly. The other one was a women being escored out from the floor seats, not to sure what she was doing. And who could forget the ringside altercation, getting yourself kicked out immediately before the main event. Wanker.

Nottingham is a **** hole, and the people there can't seem to handle their drink. I bet half of them didn't even know the name of Froch's opponent.

 

If I'm thinking of the same event, the woman in the floors seats came down extremely drunk, stumbling down the stairs and kicked out at the stewards. And yeah, what an event to have just before the fight. Nice seeing them out though. :hi:

And I entirely agree. It seems most casual fans there were scumbags.

To be fair, I spoke to John Rawling the day before at the weigh-in and he couldn't remember Dirrell's name either.