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mickey1975 wrote:London may be a fight city,but they dont seem to follow their own.Despite the drop-outs,Mitchell,Chisora and Degale should be able to fill a Wembley half-arena.Also,Nicky Cook fighting at the O2 for the world title was less than half full,and most of them were there to see Khan.Haye flopped in the capital just over a year ago,and how many times is the York Hall actually sold out?And it holds about 1200.Haye-Macca was the only well attended show i can think of recently

Haye would sell O2 out now. The prizefighter heavyweights did 5000. The Wembley bill coming up been a disaster from word go so many pull outs.

leforge wrote:

mickey1975 wrote:London may be a fight city,but they dont seem to follow their own.Despite the drop-outs,Mitchell,Chisora and Degale should be able to fill a Wembley half-arena.Also,Nicky Cook fighting at the O2 for the world title was less than half full,and most of them were there to see Khan.Haye flopped in the capital just over a year ago,and how many times is the York Hall actually sold out?And it holds about 1200.Haye-Macca was the only well attended show i can think of recently

Haye would sell O2 out now. The prizefighter heavyweights did 5000. The Wembley bill coming up been a disaster from word go so many pull outs.

But so he should.Also,with the names in the Prizefighter heavyweights,and the huge publicity it got,maybe it should have had more than 5000.I just dont think London does as well as it should,considering its size.

I want to book for me and the missus, does anyone have an idea which side of the arena the fighters enter from? Would prefer to have Haye come past us, she would love that!!!

A few £30 tickets just been released on Ticketmaster.....

gobbles wrote: there was also one Warren show where they shut the upstairs and everyone with a ticket there had it reallocated to downstairs.

That has happened a lot- Khan V Prescott, and Khan V Kotelnik they both closed the upstairs.

It was badly organised at the Kotelnik fight, the upshot being people just sat anywhere, rather than in the seat they had been swapped to.

I must have been a real bugger for people with good £100 seats to find that they had lost their place to a person who had been upgraded from a £40 upper tier ticket.

tobyh5 wrote:I want to book for me and the missus, does anyone have an idea which side of the arena the fighters enter from? Would prefer to have Haye come past us, she would love that!!!

the topside

mickey1975 wrote:A few £30 tickets just been released on Ticketmaster.....

just 1 £30 seat left now!

btw can anyone give their opinion if they find the M.E.N a friendly boxing environemnt especially if your taking the wife/gf. I can handle myself just fine but who needs the hassle of it.

Does anyone know for 100% if the whole arena being used?

exittored wrote:

mickey1975 wrote:A few £30 tickets just been released on Ticketmaster.....

just 1 £30 seat left now!

btw can anyone give their opinion if they find the M.E.N a friendly boxing environemnt especially if your taking the wife/gf. I can handle myself just fine but who needs the hassle of it.

the security is no the best, last time i went the m.e.n for boxing there was about 7 crowd fights

exittored wrote:

mickey1975 wrote:A few £30 tickets just been released on Ticketmaster.....

just 1 £30 seat left now!

btw can anyone give their opinion if they find the M.E.N a friendly boxing environemnt especially if your taking the wife/gf. I can handle myself just fine but who needs the hassle of it.

Whicker can!
Seriously,though,i imagine it will be a lot better than when Khan boxes there to be honest.A lot of that last time was down to Hall fans as well

mickey1975 wrote:

exittored wrote:

mickey1975 wrote:A few £30 tickets just been released on Ticketmaster.....

just 1 £30 seat left now!

btw can anyone give their opinion if they find the M.E.N a friendly boxing environemnt especially if your taking the wife/gf. I can handle myself just fine but who needs the hassle of it.

Whicker can!
Seriously,though,i imagine it will be a lot better than when Khan boxes there to be honest.A lot of that last time was down to Hall fans as well

Yeah i guess a David Haye fight will bring a less volitile atmosphere and lets face it, John Ruiz will be lucky if he has 10 supporters there.

exittored wrote:

mickey1975 wrote:A few £30 tickets just been released on Ticketmaster.....

just 1 £30 seat left now!

btw can anyone give their opinion if they find the M.E.N a friendly boxing environemnt especially if your taking the wife/gf. I can handle myself just fine but who needs the hassle of it.

I have attended khan fights there and the kotelnik one in particuler was hostile all around where i was sitting and vowed i'd never go there again,however haye might be different.

mickey1975 wrote:A few £30 tickets just been released on Ticketmaster.....

I would have posted myself, but had to bag my ten first 8)

mickey1975 wrote:

exittored wrote:

mickey1975 wrote:A few £30 tickets just been released on Ticketmaster.....

just 1 £30 seat left now!

btw can anyone give their opinion if they find the M.E.N a friendly boxing environemnt especially if your taking the wife/gf. I can handle myself just fine but who needs the hassle of it.

Whicker can!
Seriously,though,i imagine it will be a lot better than when Khan boxes there to be honest.A lot of that last time was down to Hall fans as well

Yes, I can!

At Khan's world title fight, one of Hall's fans decided to punch a guy who had cheered for Small- and the guys wife got punched too. Then he walked off (the puncher.)

Arrangments might be different for the Haye fight, but I'm never watching boxing there again.

Crowd tends to get better as you pay more money. That said, for Hatton Mayweather 2 blokes started a rumble sat next to Tom JOnes.

Poncey wrote:Crowd tends to get better as you pay more money. That said, for Hatton Mayweather 2 blokes started a rumble sat next to Tom JOnes.

This was a factor at Khan-Kotelnik.All the pissed up lads in the "cheap" seats got upgraded to £100 seats

It is common policy for any large arena to only sell tickets on the TV facing side of the arena first - if those tickets sell quickly they will inform the promoter that they are opening up other parts of the arena.

I sincerely hope the Arena sells out the 21,000 - 23,000 tickets it needs to fill the arena - however sometimes a promoter will state the show is a sell out - yeah a sell out of the tickets made available due to other parts of the arena either being closed or black curtained off.

In this particular case my orignial estimate of Haye/Ruiz doing in the end about 15,000 I think will be about right.

Buncey said the whole arena will be used expects it to sell about 18000.

mickey1975 wrote:

Poncey wrote:Crowd tends to get better as you pay more money. That said, for Hatton Mayweather 2 blokes started a rumble sat next to Tom JOnes.

This was a factor at Khan-Kotelnik.All the pissed up lads in the "cheap" seats got upgraded to £100 seats

Indeed- and just sat anywhere too. The people who had paid the £100 got the rows A, B, C D, E etc, the "upgrade" tickets were nominal the back rows, but of course people ignored the seat numbers.

exittored wrote:

mickey1975 wrote:A few £30 tickets just been released on Ticketmaster.....

just 1 £30 seat left now!

btw can anyone give their opinion if they find the M.E.N a friendly boxing environemnt especially if your taking the wife/gf. I can handle myself just fine but who needs the hassle of it.

I can't see anyone bothering one bloke and his missis, it's also highly unlikely to be a bad atmospere due to who he's fighting. everyone will be singing from the same sheet here, cheering for Haye. you'll have a great night

whicker wrote:

mickey1975 wrote:

Poncey wrote:Crowd tends to get better as you pay more money. That said, for Hatton Mayweather 2 blokes started a rumble sat next to Tom JOnes.

This was a factor at Khan-Kotelnik.All the pissed up lads in the "cheap" seats got upgraded to £100 seats

Indeed- and just sat anywhere too. The people who had paid the £100 got the rows A, B, C D, E etc, the "upgrade" tickets were nominal the back rows, but of course people ignored the seat numbers.

I got upgraded to a row b seat.I arrived at the opening of the doors with my 12 year old son and was given the better tickets by security

Spud wrote:It is common policy for any large arena to only sell tickets on the TV facing side of the arena first - if those tickets sell quickly they will inform the promoter that they are opening up other parts of the arena.

I sincerely hope the Arena sells out the 21,000 - 23,000 tickets it needs to fill the arena - however sometimes a promoter will state the show is a sell out - yeah a sell out of the tickets made available due to other parts of the arena either being closed or black curtained off.

In this particular case my orignial estimate of Haye/Ruiz doing in the end about 15,000 I think will be about right.

It only holds 19000 so I'd be impressed if they did more. Health and safety will lol forward to it!

More blocks opened up on Ticketmaster.Row A £30 seats if your quick

Looks like the whole areana will be used

leforge wrote:Looks like the whole areana will be used

You would think so with two months to go.Sky havent even started the hype yet.Expect them to make a big deal of Ruiz beating Holyfield,etc.