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

This is exactly why I suggest to everyone that they get out and see the world. My trip to Australia for school a couple years back opened my eyes quite a bit. Americans don't have enough fun imo and worry about too much ****

 

It depends where you are. There are money cities everywhere, but you go to smaller southern cities and life will slow down a fair bit. This probably applies to smaller cities everywhere, but hustle is emphasised much more in the north

 

i don't think boxing is dying etc. what i do think is that we have far more things to do with our time as consumers compared to our grandparents.

more choice plus advances in technology have changed the way we do many things and boxing is affected like anything else.

for example, boxing arenas used to be packed to the rafters in the olden days. one good reason for that is that it beats listening to the fight on the radio! also with high quality broadcast, why would a family or a bunch of friends want to navigate hours in traffic, bad weather, then contend with drunken hooligans in the the rows in front and behind them etc etc etc. when they can simply watch it in the comfort of their home? and it's cheaper to boot! not to mention replays, closeups, no big head or flags blocking your view etc.

as for the european thing, i'm sure it has more to do with population density combined with tiny countries in comparison to america or australia where you gotta drive for friggin hours/day/months to get anywhere. also espeically in northen europe, the weather is pretty shithouse most of the time, so people tend to do indoor things like boxing/gymnastics etc. in countries like america or australia where there is a diverse range of climates, people have more choice in what they wanna do. beaches, outdoor activities etc.

also saturation of the marketplace is lessening interests in many sports. for example take rugby league and cricket. i dont watch them anymore because there's way too much of it. rugby starts earlier and earlier each year and eventually might become a summer sport! cricket is insane now. instead of being a summer sport it is now a 24/7 all year round tour for all teams. our aussie team gets like 1-2 weeks off between tours. it's just rediculous. before i could look forward to winter for rugby, and summer for crcket. now i see it on the tv 24/7 i've lost interest. to me boxing is more quality because i can look forward to roughly 10 big fights per year, plus many lesser fights. that is enough for me. i dont need to see 1 particular fighter fighting every 2 weeks.

all that combined with more disposable income, means people can switch between various things such as boxing one week, then poker comps the next. tv/tech has allowed for lot of weird and obscure sports/activities to thrive in the limelight.

back in the grandfolks day, there were way less sports, saturation, and recreational things to do.

boxing is doing fine. but of course it could be boosted a litte bit if the promoters stopped ****ing around and gave us regular and consistant fights and obviously no more one sided beatings, which makes the fighters look like thugs sometimes.

 

Bottom line is people can't afford to pay the ticket prices, especially in todays environment. Plus, it's on HBO.

 

Explains why everyone else from ****ing New Jersey is living in North Carolina goddamn there are a lot of y'all...

 

EXACTLY. Most people think that you have to spend loads of money to have fun or go to the best night clubs and drop hundreds of dollars and act like the king **** ultimate badass atsch . Plus women in the states **** me off to no end......like you said in another post most of the good looking chicks you run into at the clubs and bars think they are the greatest thing since sliced bread and won't give the regular Joe who's not flashing money around the time of day. The night life in "most" of the states does not even come close to as fun as Australias imo. I have never been to any other places overseas but I seriously cannot wait to check it out :yep

 

Is this true?

Not trying to start no ****, and i ain't going to come back with some bull**** slagging off the U.S fans, but that can't be right, surely?

 

on the contrary it does make a difference at how the fightis looked at after the fact.

lets see B-hop the 43 year old legend walks into the lions den the heart of joe Calzaghe , 50,000 plus Fans screaming in Wales pulls off the upsets and beats JOE at home overcomes the hostle enviorment.

now you see how nice thats sounds

now flip it the other way JOE goes to vegas beats B-hop infront of 6,000 plus mostly uk fans in vegas.

or b-hop beats koe in vegas in front of samll crowd doesn't sound to thrilling.

or JOE smashes Hopkins in front of sold out crowd in at the millenium stadium. dazzles home town with win over legend:thumbsup

sorry but it makes a world of a difference

 

It does matter. Boxing is a business, like any other sport, and the fact that the casino is going to take a five million dollar hit and that the promoters had to return two million says that this was a poor business decision. Calzaghe has proven to be a draw in Wales, Hopkins isn't a proven draw anywhere, this fight should have taken place in the UK where it would have made the most money.