Why Are You Brits So Concerned With How Many Tickets Saturdays Fights Sells?

I'm reading that the U.S. is a disgrace and that we should be ashamed of not selling more tickets. What is your point?

This is a cultural difference, there are very few sporting events that sell as many tickets as you sell for events in European countries. This doesn't signify that we aren't good fans or don't care about boxing. It just means that we don't equate sporting events with places we have to be live in person. Most would rather save their money, and watch the event at home with family and friends.

There is a lot of nationalistic bull**** coming into this fight from your side (from some posters, like Rusty Craver) that lacks class. It smacks of arrogance, and to be honest its the same type of arrogance that you criticize the U.S. for.

Lets grow up and enjoy the fight. When I watch this Saturday the last thing I will be thinking of is your country or mine.

 

Who cares who he fights in front of? I can't remember a single fighters victory being enhanced because of who he fought in front of, or how many tickets sold. At the end of the day its the two men in the ring that matter, and nothing else.

 

Kirk, you know this is more complicated than that.

He is an old man, fighting an unknown man who hasn't fought here enough in his career to draw fans himself.

This isn't about the US. Its a simple equation:

43 year old man fighter with increasingly uneventful style and who has pissed of the boxing establishment a million ways
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relatively unknown entity who hasnt fought enough outside of his home country to have a fan base here
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Few tickets sold

 

I absolutely agree with you Kirk that boxing's status isn't where I want it to be. My problem is with those who act as if we are a disgrace based upon these numbers alone.

 

The fight means more to Brits than it does to Americans, and more to Joe's fans than to Bernard's. Bernard has had more legacy making events to speak of. His fans aren't pinning their memory of him on a fight with Joe at this age.

Joe on the other hand, is coming to the US for the first time, and its seen as a more monumental event (right or wrong) for his career and shutting up the doubters.

 

I'm intrigued by the fight. I rewatched the Lacy fight last night and my admiration of Joe was reaffirmed. At the same time, Bernard is a tricky ******* and I can't wait to see whats up his sleeve. But only as a boxing PURIST would you know these things.

But if you aren't hard core boxing fan, you don't understand this fight on any level... because you don't know that ring smarts and guile can make up for age (you only understand KO's and hype) and you don't know who Joe is (some pasty white guy from another country).

Its low numbers seem natural to me, not an indication of us fans in the US. There are plenty of other indications that we as fans aren't the greatest, lets just not get stuck on this.