mickey1975 wrote: ↑06 Apr 2022, 02:10
KiwiRider wrote: ↑05 Apr 2022, 18:28
dookus wrote: ↑05 Apr 2022, 18:03
94,000 casuals, travellers and roadmen in one place all night, disinterested in the undercard, with allegedly in charge of paying the security.
Oh gawd, when you put it like that, they are going to be mighty testie by whenever the main event comes on, and from recent form it will be plenty beers in..
Fwank only pays for inner ringside security. The rest are supplied by the venue. There'll be hardly any Rodmen there and the casuals will be strictly team Fury.
Apologies in advance for the long post:
To the people referencing Fury-Chisora 2, like this is going to be some repeat of that with 94,000 people, the main problems with that event shouldn't be a factor here.
Security: it's Wembley Stadium. They're used to the football crowds who are just as a big a bunch of knobs as boxing fans and hate each other. The Excel had a team of stewards basically.
Booze: they wouldn't let people take their beers to their seats at the Excel, which was a silly thing to do, as people want to get drunk but also watch the fights, so people buy in volume and drink it much faster. I remember way back watching Haye-Mac at the 02 and they did the same thing, and there was trouble on the landings and in the bar queues. They must've learned something from that as it's normal to be able to have a beer at your seat now.
Tetchy crowd: Fury-Chis was basically a double header, with Eubank jnr against BJS probably being the more anticipated than the main event. Trouble is, you couldn't really see anything. There was no big screen to my memory, and it went 12 and was just boring. The main event was f*cking awful too, and the whole night dragged on
forever. That isn't going to be a problem here: the undercard is crap, so everyone will on the piss in London all day (hopefully the biggest muppets will get themselves arrested before even stepping foot in Wembley). Maybe even the Northern fans will make a weekend of it and will burn themselves out a bit the night before? Basically, I forsee a big crowd queuing to get in from about 8ish, watch Tyson, Dillian gets KO'd, back out on the town.
Warren events always overrun: they ALWAYS do! I've never been to one where he didn't put far too many fights on and f*ck up the timing so that people had to leave before the end! There's the 11pm curfew which is something at least, so that shouldn't happen here.
Crowd trouble: casuals are often more amusing than anything, and we were all one once weren't we? I can imagine they might wind their necks in a little more here as there will be loads of travellers in attendance. Can't see many 'roadmen' attending. Dillian isn't really that big a name to those lads, not even in Brixton. I think his fanbase is Matchroom FC. Joshua definitely, Dillian I can't see it. There'll be fights, because there always is, but in my experience fights usually happen during crap boxing matches where everyone is bored. There's a shocking boring undercard for this, but nobody will be there. They'll be in the pub.
Piss: people pissed everywhere because nobody knew where the toilets were. Wembley has numerous and easily accessible toilet facilities.
Seat nicking: shouldn't be a problem for us. We're up in the Gods with all the plebs. Any naughty seat swapping should hopefully be in the domain of the money'd tossers below. We'll actually torture ourselves with the undercard, so we'll be nicely in our seats before the hordes arrive, I assume?
Summary: As Mick pointed out, the crowd will be almost exclusively pro-Fury, seeing as Dillian had no input in it selling out I doubt there will be many people there to see him. I forsee it being generally quite good natured. I just don't think that many people will be in there until later, and everyone will want to see the main event. That's the only reason they're there. So most people will be smart enough to know not to get thrown out before or during it. MOST. If I thought it was going be Dante's nine circles of hell, like people are making it out to be, I wouldn't go.
*Edited to put in the right name of the Fury-Del rematch venue. Got a bit confused.
sounds like a bargain bucket VHS from back in the day
