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any of the guys on here going to the fight ? www.ticketmaster.com

dickbelden wrote:plenty of tix for conor vs floyd still @ face value

At this point in time, there are only 375 pairs of Mayweather-McGregor tickets available on Ticketmaster, which is info. obtained from the same website you provided.

According to the following article, there were 536 pairs remaining on Ticketmaster as of last night, with $60m raised in gate receipts so far:

"Sixty-million dollars sounds pretty good to Leonard Ellerbe"

... [When] he was questioned about slow ticket sales for the upcoming fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor on Aug. 26 at T-Mobile Arena.

“I’m actually tired of hearing that question,” Ellerbe said, as the smile disappeared. “Right now, we have over 60 million dollars in the box office. What part of that remotely looks like ticket sales are slow? This isn’t a damn Rolling Stones concert. That’s the only thing that sells out in seconds. We’re talking about tickets that go from $500 to $10,000. That’s an expensive ticket.”

As of Thursday evening, a general search for two tickets on Ticketmaster’s website showed 536 pairs available, ranging anywhere between $1,682.50 to $35,010.09 per ticket.

“We’re going to blow past our own record of $72 million; this fight is massive,” Ellerbe said.

Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao’s “fight of the century” saw live gate receipts produce more than $71 million in revenue at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, easily surpassing the previous live gate record of $20 million, for Mayweather-Canelo Álvarez.

Ellerbe said his ire was raised on his way to Mayweather’s headquarters, when he apparently received a message from a reporter, inquiring why tickets were reportedly being sold at Costco.

“The fact of the matter is we have over 60 million dollars in the box office right now, which is more than double any other live gate that has ever been done. The fight that they have on the 16th, next month, we’ve got more in the box office right now — double — than what they will have,” he said, referring to Alvarez’s match against Gennady Golovkin.

How long did it take to sell out May/Pac?
I seem to remember it was two days??

KiwiRider wrote:How long did it take to sell out May/Pac?
I seem to remember it was two days??

FLOYD vs MANNY sold out in 60 seconds !---the platinum & standard tix r the tix still offered @ face value.---u r NOW allowed to buy 6 @ a time up from 2 @ a time.

dickbelden wrote:

KiwiRider wrote:How long did it take to sell out May/Pac?
I seem to remember it was two days??

FLOYD vs MANNY sold out in 60 seconds !---the platinum & standard tix r the tix still offered @ face value.---u r NOW allowed to buy 6 @ a time up from 2 @ a time.

You're making an issue where there isn't one.

If Mayweather-McGregor generates at least $72 million from the T-Mobile revenue alone, that'll be the biggest gate receipt for any combat sport in history, even if there are a few empty seats.

This circus event is well on its way to achieving that landmark, coupled with the fact that it is already the second biggest gate receipt ever (very close to the Mayweather-Pacquiao total), means that it's already considered a commercial success.

This circus could open the door to even more spectacular future record breaking epics such as Donald J Trump v Kim Yong-il. PT Barnum has nothing on FMWjr.

WW3 on the other hand, might be going too far. The action wouldn't last long and the fan fallout would be terrible.

Enlightened-One wrote:

dickbelden wrote:

KiwiRider wrote:How long did it take to sell out May/Pac?
I seem to remember it was two days??

FLOYD vs MANNY sold out in 60 seconds !---the platinum & standard tix r the tix still offered @ face value.---u r NOW allowed to buy 6 @ a time up from 2 @ a time.

You're making an issue where there isn't one.

If Mayweather-McGregor generates at least $72 million from the T-Mobile revenue alone, that'll be the biggest gate receipt for any combat sport in history, even if there are a few empty seats.

This circus event is well on its way to achieving that landmark, coupled with the fact that it is already the second biggest gate receipt ever (very close to the Mayweather-Pacquiao total), means that it's already considered a commercial success.

Ah, I remember what the 2 days was now. It was two days after tickets sold out that scalpers were on selling seats for up to $70,000 for Floyd/Pac.Connor/Floyd will break the 'official' box office record when it does sell out. But why the 2 days was niggling my mind was that scalping news article. It may happen for this fight as well but probably not for the same amounts. Making the Floyd/Pac the 'unofficial' biggest, which makes me feel better

as of right now there r over 2258 tix offered @face value on ticketmaster.com---will this fight sell out ?

Ticketmaster usually doesn't put up all their tickets for sale at once. They release a certain amount randomly right up to an event. Plus Ticketmaster never gets all the tickets for an event either, usually.

armageto wrote:Ticketmaster usually doesn't put up all their tickets for sale at once. They release a certain amount randomly right up to an event. Plus Ticketmaster never gets all the tickets for an event either, usually.

correct ! those r just the tix they r showing now & costco is also now selling tix !

still 1724 tix available @ face value on ticketmaster--- will this fight sell out ?

dickbelden wrote:still 1724 tix available @ face value on ticketmaster--- will this fight sell out ?

As I've already said, who gives a flying fûck about the event being completely "sold out", when the only thing that really matters is revenue generation.

In financial terms, the gate receipts for the Mayweather-McGregor circus event have almost certainly surpassed the Pacquiao-Mayweather super-fight.

You can't buy super-cars using cheeks-on-seats... money in the bank is all that matters!

If Mayweather could guarantee that he'd get a good beating he could easily double the sales for a future fight. He sure likes to suck the money from the punters.

Cassius Clay learned promotion from seeing Gorgeous George in 1961 but he always had at least half the fans behind him. Mayweather on the other hand is almost universally despised. There's going to be a lot of McGregor fans disappointed Saturday night.

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face value tix left !

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The official attendance for Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s technical knockout of Conor McGregor was just 14,623 at T-Mobile Arena, more than 5,000 seats short of a sellout. T-Mobile Arena can accommodate roughly 20,500 fans for boxing. There were several sections toward the upper reaches of the arena that were completely empty Saturday night.

That's closer to 6,000 empty seats. Still, the organisers got lots of money so it shouldn't hurt future boxing events which is great.