Wilder-Fury 2nd highest grossing EVENT ever @ Staples

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  1. Davo

    Davo Boxing Addict Full Member

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    According to fish eyes. I can fully believe it based on the insane ticket prices and the amount they've sold.

    Even the night before, any non-nose bleed Wilder-Fury ticket is still north of $300. There are upper deck nose-bleed seats going for $129.40. Even from the new batch they released, very few are the $70 tickets people are banging on about.

    Just to put it in perspective, a good seat for Chisora-Whyte (section 102 @ The o2) was £167.50. The same seat for Wilder-Fury (Section 101 @ Staples) is $1,552.50.

    Even if they only do half the arena, they will easily crack $5m. That's based on an average ticket price of circa $500, which may even be too low! So I think we can conservatively say that half the Staples Centre tomorrow night will be worth at least 6 sold out UK Arena shows!

    Fact is, Fury-Wilder could still obliterate the gate of the much hyped Matchroom stadium shows with a fraction of the running costs.
     
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  2. Puroresu_Fan

    Puroresu_Fan Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Yet they are giving tickets away and still need to fill the floor seats which will look empty on tv.

    Making a comparison between Whyte v Chisora and 'The biggest fight of the year'. 'HW fight of the decade' is nonsensical.

    Shouldn't you be comparing this to say AJ vs Parker which did £8 mil at the gate?

    Can you name a Matchroom Stadium show which did less than $5 mil in gate receipts?
     
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  3. 305th

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    Oh look another Matchroom fortune teller.
     
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  4. Puroresu_Fan

    Puroresu_Fan Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    just check the seating plan right now. One doesn't need to be a fortune teller.
     
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  5. Davo

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    As I said, $5mn is a conservative figure for if they do less than HALF the arena tomorrow night. Even at half the arena, they might well do $8mn. I genuinely have no idea how to gauge it when tickets are up to 10 times the price of a Matchroom UK show.

    Even as a total hater, you must admit that the gate has already massively exceeded your revenue expectations. If I told you when it was announced that Wilder-Fury would be the 2nd highest grossing event of any kind ever held at Staples, what would you have said?
     
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    Suck on that Oj
     
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    Make The Heavyweight Championship Great Again. Highly Glorious news
     
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  8. TonyHayers

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    'According to Frank Warren.'

    Aka, to be taken with a gargantuan quantity of salt. Was this in the same conversation when he was saying how happy we'd all be with Yarde's opponent?
     
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  9. nurological

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    The ticket prices are scandoulous. Whats the point in only selling half when you could have dropped the prices in half and filled the place up? Makes no sense to me.
     
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  10. Davo

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    You're missing the point here.

    Wilder and Fury are smashing all revenue expectations here with LESS THAN HALF an arena sold. They will at least be in the same ball park as AJ filling a national stadium! That's mental.

    Now factor in the cost saving of putting on a MUCH smaller event. The cost of funnelling 90,000 people in and out of a packed stadium vs a very casual half filled arena. It's not even comparable.
     
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  11. Badbot

    Badbot You can just do things. Full Member

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    Agree with the rest, but fraction of the running costs? Nah.
     
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  12. Davo

    Davo Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Care to explain? Catering for 9,000 fans doesn't come at a fraction of the cost of 90,000 fans in your world?
     
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  13. 305th

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    More attendees = More staff. More insurance. More potential claims. All eating into your profit, particularly the staff.

    Admittedly less food and drink bought though.
     
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  14. lewis gassed

    lewis gassed The Bronze Dosser Full Member

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    I heard members of the BombSquad charged all those firefighters ridiculous ticket fees.
    Went door to door to collect the money @chico g
     
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  15. Badbot

    Badbot You can just do things. Full Member

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    I think fraction is too strong of a word.
    Of course it's a lot easier and takes less resources to handle approximately 20k in comparison to 90k.

    But I would not gloat about them only selling out half the place. They were greedy and it shows. And the PPV price is ridiculously high as well.
    Even if they sell 200k in PPV, they will easily break even and everyone gets a small bonus.
    Greed guaranteed this event being a financial success. Which is ironic.

    But this is not as big of a fight as made out to be. (Soon enough we will know the actual numers)
     
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