Demetrius Andrade vs. Zach Parker - OFF

[mickey1975]

Signed for Pride Park. Ambitious.

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Signed for Pride Park. Ambitious.

Just seen. Tickets on sale soon.

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[maverick23]

Fair play to Frank. Hope they do well with it. I imagine they’ll get Heaney added to sell a couple of thousand.

What would be a success here ticket wise? 10,000?

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Fair play to Frank. Hope they do well with it. I imagine they’ll get Heaney added to sell a couple of thousand.

What would be a success here ticket wise? 10,000?

Don’t see why not. Will attract football fans as well as some hardcore fans.

Add to the £10 of each ticket goes towards Derby County FC as well. Should help shift more tickets.

[My T Sharp]

Do they realize every 50 tickets sold means one hour of the administrator's time paid for at Derby County?

[Dioufy]

10 quid to Derby for every ticket means lowest ticket price probably 60 quid.
This isn’t a stadium fight and Parker doesn’t have the fan base I’d imagine.

[garethhop]

10k would be outstanding imo.

[jameswilson]

They bang on about his pulling power. If they ain’t gonna do Pride Park for his World title (or interim world title shot) then when will they?

Maybe they can get Johnny Fisher and Frank Buglioni on the undercard. They’ll sell the place out twice.

[Dioufy]

Fisher is Hearn’s baby so no chance.
More likely Hearney v 6-31 but that’ll sell maybe 3/4k and I can’t imagine Zach pulling in much more.
Stadium fight and maybe only the first few rows needed.
No one casual knows Boo Boo.

[Manchester Hitman]

Clever to push the promotion of the fight though Derby County - I think the event will sell very well

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Clever to push the promotion of the fight though Derby County - I think the event will sell very well

Yh they’ll hype it during match days too.

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PARKER SET TO LIVE HIS DREAM

ZACH PARKER DESCRIBES fighting Demetrius Andrade on the hallowed turf of his hometown football club as the stuff of dreams.

The super middleweight destroyer takes on the unbeaten American for the WBO Interim world title at the Pride Park Stadium, home of Derby County FC, on May 21.

Parker has blasted out all before him since teaming up with allegedly and Queensberry, scoring brutal knockouts victories over Vaughn Alexander, Sherzod Khusanov and Marcus Morrison – three men who had not previously been stopped.

Now he goes up against the formidable Andrade, a world champion at both super welterweight and middleweight.

Parker insists it is his time now and a changing of the guard will take place in the middle of the pitch at Pride Park, suggesting Andrade has miscalculated the scale of the job in front of him.

“I am obviously over the moon and it is a dream for me,” said the 27-year-old. “Fighting for the Interim title against one of the best out there in Andrade, a two-weight world champion and awkward southpaw.

“I am ready for it and he has made a bad decision coming over to Derby in front of what will be a hostile crowd at Pride Park. He is coming up a weight as well, so nothing is in his favour.

“I just can’t wait now,” he added, before reflecting on the gesture of donating £10 from every ticket sold back to his team in a time of financial strife.

“I said with us doing it at Pride Park that we need to give something back to Derby because they are going through hard times. With £10 from each ticket going to the club what more incentive is there needed for fans to get behind me now?

“It is amazing to be able to do it and hopefully it will help out the club.”

While his local team battle against points deductions and strive to remain in the Championship against all odds, Parker believes his region is in need of another hero.

“Derby is such a big team and we need a winner to get behind. I’ll be that winner. I am undefeated in 22 fights and Derby is such a good county and on May 21 everyone will see what Derby is all about.

“We are going to light up Pride Park,” is Parker’s prediction, another being that the reign of Andrade will come to an abrupt conclusion.

“My style is all wrong for everyone. Every time I face someone I change my style to work in my favour.

“I think he is on his last legs and his promoter hasn’t got behind him, has he? Not like my promoter, that is what you are meant to do and get behind your fighter. He is 34, coming up a weight against someone who is big for the weight. You could see that in my last fight against Marcus Morrison, when a middleweight comes up I just put them to sleep.

“Trust me I will be the first to stop Andrade and I haven’t been as confident about anything in my life. I’ve been waiting for these big fights to show what I am about and on May 21 everyone will know who Zach Parker is.”

[maverick23]

Clever to push the promotion of the fight though Derby County - I think the event will sell very well

What do you think selling very well is for this? Frank’s talking about them looking to sell it out (best part of 40,000). I get being optimistic but that seems heavily OTT.

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Clever to push the promotion of the fight though Derby County - I think the event will sell very well

What do you think selling very well is for this? Frank’s talking about them looking to sell it out (best part of 40,000). I get being optimistic but that seems heavily OTT.

He'll use the corner of the stadium. He's not gonna get a sell out..

[Manchester Hitman]

Clever to push the promotion of the fight though Derby County - I think the event will sell very well

What do you think selling very well is for this? Frank’s talking about them looking to sell it out (best part of 40,000). I get being optimistic but that seems heavily OTT.

Hard to say, assuming the club/Rooney etc push it hard amongst their fan base, plugging the financial impact etc, they could get 25k odd

[mickey1975]

The problem is with football lads, they're not buying tickets beyond the £40-£80 range.
Is Parker a genuine fan? Warrington, Hatton, Heany are. Loads who try it aren't and don't get the same backing.

[maverick23]

The problem is with football lads, they're not buying tickets beyond the £40-£80 range.
Is Parker a genuine fan? Warrington, Hatton, Heany are. Loads who try it aren't and don't get the same backing.

Bellew was a genuine fan and got c.18,000 at Goodison (albeit tickets only went on sale a couple of weeks before the fight). Stadium was only about 1/3 full given the seating on the pitch.

It will certainly do more tickets than it would at a random decent sized indoor arena but I can’t see it doing 20/25,000. Hope I’m wrong though.

I’d imagine they’ll get Heaney out on the undercard to do 2,500.

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The problem is with football lads, they're not buying tickets beyond the £40-£80 range.
Is Parker a genuine fan? Warrington, Hatton, Heany are. Loads who try it aren't and don't get the same backing.

Bellew was a genuine fan and got c.18,000 at Goodison (albeit tickets only went on sale a couple of weeks before the fight). Stadium was only about 1/3 full given the seating on the pitch.

It will certainly do more tickets than it would at a random decent sized indoor arena but I can’t see it doing 20/25,000. Hope I’m wrong though.

I’d imagine they’ll get Heaney out on the undercard to do 2,500.

Was a Sunday too wasn’t it?

[mickey1975]

The problem is with football lads, they're not buying tickets beyond the £40-£80 range.
Is Parker a genuine fan? Warrington, Hatton, Heany are. Loads who try it aren't and don't get the same backing.

Bellew was a genuine fan and got c.18,000 at Goodison (albeit tickets only went on sale a couple of weeks before the fight). Stadium was only about 1/3 full given the seating on the pitch.

It will certainly do more tickets than it would at a random decent sized indoor arena but I can’t see it doing 20/25,000. Hope I’m wrong though.

I’d imagine they’ll get Heaney out on the undercard to do 2,500.

Was a Sunday too wasn’t it?

A Sunday before a bank holiday is busier with drinkers than most Saturday's.

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Bellew was a genuine fan and got c.18,000 at Goodison (albeit tickets only went on sale a couple of weeks before the fight). Stadium was only about 1/3 full given the seating on the pitch.

It will certainly do more tickets than it would at a random decent sized indoor arena but I can’t see it doing 20/25,000. Hope I’m wrong though.

I’d imagine they’ll get Heaney out on the undercard to do 2,500.

Was a Sunday too wasn’t it?

A Sunday before a bank holiday is busier with drinkers than most Saturday's.

Was is the bank holiday weekend?

[mickey1975]

I think so.

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Hearn Expects To Part Ways With Andrade After May 21 Parker Bout: 'We Tried Everything'

“I expect this to be his last fight with Matchroom, to be honest with you,” Hearn told Pro Boxing Fans. “I think that we’ve sort of worked the best we could for Demetrius Andrade without delivering him the big fights that he needed.

"We tried everything. It’s not his fault, and I don’t think it’s our fault either. I think after this fight he should look at the option out there available to him. We’ve got options for him, we’ll present them. We’ve been working real well together but without any real benefit with each other, if that makes sense.

He hasn’t been in the fights that have been delivering for us; we haven’t been delivering the big fights to him.”

“Unless we can deliver the big fights, if someone else can, he should take that route and move on,” Hearn said. “We love Demetrius but he’s at a stage in his career where he really needs the big fights.

“If we can land one, I’m sure he’ll work with us, but if someone else can land one that’s the route he should look at as well.”