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In Gateshead tonight a truly shocking card!!!! Two 4 rounders and a 6!!!! On the plus side the hugely overrated and self loving Lewis Scott got turned over.

sounds a little steep for a three fight show..

That's outrageous. And people are moaning about 20 quid for the big fight

What made it even worse was Spud was mincing about the place

Did fights fall through or did you just buy blind?

That's truly atrocious. The worst I've been to is a stacked 4 fight card.

Fights fell through, fighters didn't make weight.

I got offered to fight on this promoters show but it's 50 tickets before u make 1p, id only do 70 so that would be £600 (before trainer, manager and any other costs come off) add that to the fact the "opponents" I was offered where a few weight classes above I had to say no / fighting naturally much bigger lads for 1/2 the money you'd get on the road just didn't appeal at all

REEVE wrote:I got offered to fight on this promoters show but it's 50 tickets before u make 1p, id only do 70 so that would be £600 (before trainer, manager and any other costs come off) add that to the fact the "opponents" I was offered where a few weight classes above I had to say no / fighting naturally much bigger lads for 1/2 the money you'd get on the road just didn't appeal at all

Interesting insight. What kind of a cut do you they give you per ticket sold?

Dixonian wrote:

REEVE wrote:I got offered to fight on this promoters show but it's 50 tickets before u make 1p, id only do 70 so that would be £600 (before trainer, manager and any other costs come off) add that to the fact the "opponents" I was offered where a few weight classes above I had to say no / fighting naturally much bigger lads for 1/2 the money you'd get on the road just didn't appeal at all

Interesting insight. What kind of a cut do you they give you per ticket sold?

U sell 50 tickets @ £35 each that covers your opponent and promoters wage, any tickets u sell after that u get to keep - it's been known for lads to box for nothing a fair few times, I understand about ticket deals but I think it's criminal that fighters have to do this, imagine footballers covering there own wage in ticket sales!

REEVE wrote:

Dixonian wrote:

REEVE wrote:I got offered to fight on this promoters show but it's 50 tickets before u make 1p, id only do 70 so that would be £600 (before trainer, manager and any other costs come off) add that to the fact the "opponents" I was offered where a few weight classes above I had to say no / fighting naturally much bigger lads for 1/2 the money you'd get on the road just didn't appeal at all

Interesting insight. What kind of a cut do you they give you per ticket sold?

U sell 50 tickets @ £35 each that covers your opponent and promoters wage, any tickets u sell after that u get to keep - it's been known for lads to box for nothing a fair few times, I understand about ticket deals but I think it's criminal that fighters have to do this, imagine footballers covering there own wage in ticket sales!

Yeah it'll be nice if the promoter could sell a few. I'm a big boxing fan and sometimes I don't even know when there's a boxing show down my way. One pro boxer told me that he was walking up and down the main nightlife hotspots trying to sell tickets to drunkards the night before a fight. He was working full time, training like crazy and working as his own promoter.

Hagler2002 wrote:In Gateshead tonight a truly shocking card!!!! Two 4 rounders and a 6!!!! On the plus side the hugely overrated and self loving Lewis Scott got turned over.

What's the story with this kid? I heard him getting hyped by a lot of people around here for quite a while so was expecting some decent things, but suddenly he's lost his last two including this latest one to a journeyman. Never seen him box before so I can't comment.

Very nearly went to this show, hadn't realised the bill had collapsed to 3 fights. Lucky escape.