Tickets for Joshua fight sell out in 90 seconds

[ashedward]

The real boxing fan will never get to see a big event again at ticket face value price. Not while stub hub is around.

I got tickets for this and Frampton-Quigg at face value and not a fight pass member just lucky I guess.

[the_doctor]

It does make you wonder who tbe touts are and how they get easy access to buying them up at 9am and 1 second. When the ordinary man rings up at 9am the phone is engaged. You get one chance to call them and thats it when the tickets go in 90 seconds. Someone must be on tbe inside selling tickets before they actually go on sale. There are many tickets on stub hub that are in groups. The general fan does not call wanting multipul amounts in tbe scale that you can buy at over 5 times the face value. These tickets must be sold prior to general sale.

Matchroom are in cahoots with stub hub, they advertise on corner posts and on the ring apron.
It's a disgraceful situation and you have to wonder how many of the tickets are put on general sale.

Hearn even thanked StubHub in the press conference yesterday. Thanks for what exactly?

They are Matchroom sponsors.

I know everyone loves a conspiracy but any big event has this problem - the difference is that a music gig will have a load of dates/venues but if you want to see Joshua vs Martin it's one night only. Supply and demand.

The issue is allowing the resale of tickets above face value. I say make it illegal - if you have a ticket and can't go then by all means sell it on, but only for face value.

[louisfvv]

Also Eddie let Stub Hub sell some "face-value" add massive booking and shipping fees. Managed to get one ticket though so i'm fairly happy! All my mates jealous, despite them having only seen May-Pac and describing that as boring for no KO's

[freddydoesdallas]

Matchroom are in cahoots with stub hub, they advertise on corner posts and on the ring apron.
It's a disgraceful situation and you have to wonder how many of the tickets are put on general sale.

Hearn even thanked StubHub in the press conference yesterday. Thanks for what exactly?

They are Matchroom sponsors.

I know everyone loves a conspiracy but any big event has this problem - the difference is that a music gig will have a load of dates/venues but if you want to see Joshua vs Martin it's one night only. Supply and demand.

The issue is allowing the resale of tickets above face value. I say make it illegal - if you have a ticket and can't go then by all means sell it on, but only for face value.

It is the issue but the conspiracy theories that you mention apply to all the events.

We do need to know if matchroom are bypassing people who will actually attend the event and selling the majority of tickets to stubhub. If they are then we have a right to know. This isn't supply and demand issues, it's profiteering. If the demand calls for a higher ticket price then that's fine but to trick customers into thinking an event is sold out is not on.

[Cyclops]

I had a go at both 02 priority and general sale. It honestly felt like getting a Glastonbury ticket. Impossible. To console me and my mates, we all now have (to my shame) David Haye vs TBA tickets. We're already talking about how we'll spend most of the day in that nice little boozer behind all the car parks and only be in the 02 about 20mins because the undercard will be shite and the opponent will get smashed in two or three. Still... We wanted to see some boxing goddamit!!!

[samwbr]

Matchroom are in cahoots with stub hub, they advertise on corner posts and on the ring apron.
It's a disgraceful situation and you have to wonder how many of the tickets are put on general sale.

Hearn even thanked StubHub in the press conference yesterday. Thanks for what exactly?

They are Matchroom sponsors.

I know everyone loves a conspiracy but any big event has this problem - the difference is that a music gig will have a load of dates/venues but if you want to see Joshua vs Martin it's one night only. Supply and demand.

The issue is allowing the resale of tickets above face value. I say make it illegal - if you have a ticket and can't go then by all means sell it on, but only for face value.

It's legalised touting.

[Mimmy]

Almost everyone I know streams, it's got to be ruining Sky's business.

And deservedly. If sky offered a more value for money package, customers would buy that rather than risk a poor stream. But Sky are obsessed by quick YOY money and not looking at the longer game.

And imagine the cost if you're a pub/venue buying sky sports. With premium property prices, high tax on booze and pubs closing down its going to be a struggle to get business contracts.

I imagine (and I know very little about big corporation commerce to be clear) that the whole thing will collapse when Murdoch dies....

Some people offer very good HD streams for less than £7 a month. Over 100 sports channels from around the world. I dont know any of them, infact what is streaming?

[SteveDow]

Don't want to say I told you so but I started a thread on this quite a while back. Matchroom are an awful virus on boxing in my view. Their Sky monopoly has allowed them to engage in some utterly ridiculous practices which simply screw the fans over. Before these arseholes came into boxing when had any boxing fan ever had trouble getting a ticket for a big fight at face value? Never. The sport simply isn't popular enough in Britain for events like this to sell out to genuine fans within a minute of going on sale.

It's the same story for their other sports. Darts: try getting tickets to the premier league r wrd championships on a front table. Impossible because those tickets don't go on general sale. They are sold on stubhub for 5 times the price. Snooker: try getting a world championship final ticket. Can't be done but on stubhub they are available. It's an utter bloody scandal.

This is without even mentioning some of the shite they serve up on PPV.

I'm sure Hearn would disagree given that if what he and his company do were properly exposed, he'd be ruined. The guy is pushing the boundaries of legitimacy and what he does just can't be allowed to continue.


Some like Hearn would strongly disagree with your point.

He'll say that he's given these sports a bigger platform. The financial reward/prize is much bigger than it has ever been before. You remember what a darts player used to get for winning the world championships? In 1997 it was £45,000, similar to the BDO world champs. This year it was £300,000.

Unfortunately the argument is two fold. How it affects the purest fans. And how it raises the profile of the sport. You cannot have one without the other, simple as. The players would argue it's better than it ever has, and the purest will say it's the worst it ever has been.

We've all seen it. The darts becomes a stag do capital of the country, and anyone going to watch the darts for the darts will hate it. Just like when purest fans go watch the boxing and there's a plethora of plonkers in the crowd refusing to sit down and enjoy the boxing in it's purest form as opposed to the spectacle.

To offer some perspective. The BDO world championships is still very similar to it's original platform. Around about 10% the prize fund of the PDC, and still playing its world championships in clubs with a seated capacity of 500 people. Do we want to go back there?

I know I'm playing devil's advocate, but I can understand how we've ended where we are. I don't see it getting better any time soon.

[mfc_se15]

I had a go at both 02 priority and general sale. It honestly felt like getting a Glastonbury ticket. Impossible. To console me and my mates, we all now have (to my shame) David Haye vs TBA tickets. We're already talking about how we'll spend most of the day in that nice little boozer behind all the car parks and only be in the 02 about 20mins because the undercard will be shite and the opponent will get smashed in two or three. Still... We wanted to see some boxing goddamit!!!

I was missing live boxing too but I decided the Hennessy show at Wembley albeit on the wrong side of London for me was better than the Joshua fight which I had no chance of getting tickets for or the Haye v unknown fight with presumably again no undercard/limit undercard fights. Hope they get Hughie a good opponent and then I will be a happy boy!

[Rob3_142]

Don't want to say I told you so but I started a thread on this quite a while back. Matchroom are an awful virus on boxing in my view. Their Sky monopoly has allowed them to engage in some utterly ridiculous practices which simply screw the fans over. Before these arseholes came into boxing when had any boxing fan ever had trouble getting a ticket for a big fight at face value? Never. The sport simply isn't popular enough in Britain for events like this to sell out to genuine fans within a minute of going on sale.

It's the same story for their other sports. Darts: try getting tickets to the premier league r wrd championships on a front table. Impossible because those tickets don't go on general sale. They are sold on stubhub for 5 times the price. Snooker: try getting a world championship final ticket. Can't be done but on stubhub they are available. It's an utter bloody scandal.

This is without even mentioning some of the shite they serve up on PPV.

I'm sure Hearn would disagree given that if what he and his company do were properly exposed, he'd be ruined. The guy is pushing the boundaries of legitimacy and what he does just can't be allowed to continue.


Some like Hearn would strongly disagree with your point.

He'll say that he's given these sports a bigger platform. The financial reward/prize is much bigger than it has ever been before. You remember what a darts player used to get for winning the world championships? In 1997 it was £45,000, similar to the BDO world champs. This year it was £300,000.

Unfortunately the argument is two fold. How it affects the purest fans. And how it raises the profile of the sport. You cannot have one without the other, simple as. The players would argue it's better than it ever has, and the purest will say it's the worst it ever has been.

We've all seen it. The darts becomes a stag do capital of the country, and anyone going to watch the darts for the darts will hate it. Just like when purest fans go watch the boxing and there's a plethora of plonkers in the crowd refusing to sit down and enjoy the boxing in it's purest form as opposed to the spectacle.

To offer some perspective. The BDO world championships is still very similar to it's original platform. Around about 10% the prize fund of the PDC, and still playing its world championships in clubs with a seated capacity of 500 people. Do we want to go back there?

I know I'm playing devil's advocate, but I can understand how we've ended where we are. I don't see it getting better any time soon.

Well I'm not saying what Hearn is doing is legal or legit, because I don't know for sure, it's all speculation. But the players will still argue the sports in a good place.I think Hearn is only a very small part of the problem. The problem is the culture within the sport which is allowed to thrive without any consequence or central governance.