Tickets for the hotly anticipated boxing showdown between undefeated junior welterweight champions Tim Bradley and Devon Alexander are moving like coldcakes--no, make that frozen cakes--at the Pontiac Silverdome, site of the bout which is being televised by HBO.
An inflamed source told me at noon Thursday that a not-so-grand total of 339 tickets have been sold for the match between the world champ from St. Louis, Alexander, and the one from California (Bradley).
Tickets range from a $25 bottom to a $400 ringside top and have been on sale since Dec. 10.
The 80,000-seat arena, which recently sold for the price of a modest house and is the former home of the NFL Detroit Lions, will be cordoned off for a cozy, 7,000-seat setup.
"The first four rows at ringside are being given away, those seats go to Don King and Gary Shaw (co-promoters) and to HBO and its guests. You can only buy tickets from the fifth row back," my source said Thursday afternoon.
Chances are we will never get the honest count on paid attendance in both dollars and rear ends in the seats who did not get in free as Michigan keeps such information private by law.
Maybe WikiLeaks can come up with it. It's beyond me.
There was some insanity to selecting this neutral venue, but Shaw and King got some glad tidings Wednesday as their promised $600,000 site fee came through, albeit a few days late.
Had the bout been held in St. Louis, a 12,000-seat venue figured to sell out in a short time.
Perhaps, this being near the Motor City of Detroit, they expect a huge "drive up" at the last minute.
Here's a peek at available tickets on the Silverdome web site:
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they should just fight outside the U.S. or just fight in the undercard of Pac vs Mosley!
the winner in this if ever get a chance to fight Pac should not OVER PRICE themself..
this 2 should just take on Ted Williams(bumb w/ a golden voice) vacants spot!!!
To early to talk, but this is not say that they are not the best cleanest and blameless fighters at this weight. Either fighter, is not accused of drug use, or somebody wanting their money back.
This should give folks an eye opener not to support other fighters that are not investing their money here, or do not have documentation and are using vitriol vs are American boxers
Just as if they were promoting a Fight in PI. This is why Pilipino boxers are coming to Mexico or USA, coz in the Pacific they get pay with a sack of rice. They should promote some fights and take some responsibility, before they criticize the boxing ORG...instead then just wanting to take the money home without risking- the easiest way ever.
They should create a gimmick or something........
perhaps wear a ballerina costume during the fight
These areTwo Black folk fighting each other, find two FELIPINO fighters two fight each other and see how much attendance they will gather, before U open your mouth as usual.
See IF Arum RISK his money with these two Pinoy clowns.
Perhaps he will be talking spanish for them.
Challenge anybody that is a fool to risk, on any two Felipino fighting each other, any WHERE in the WORLD, not PI.
These areTwo Black folk fighting each other.
We challenge any promoter (especially if is Felipino,doubt very much) to find two FELIPINO fighters two fight each other and see how much attendance they will gather, before Pinoy fan huggers open their smelly postizo mouth as usual.
See IF Arum or any other Mexican, American, England, Japanese RISK their money with these two Pinoy clowns. Perhaps he will be talking spanish for them.
We bet is no real rethoric, but lies and trash talk.
We put our money where our mouth is. Challenge anybody that is a fool to risk.
Mucho hot soon or later, better soon or sooner
UFC fighter in trouble for criticizing President Obama.
Look at the shaky legs now, doing the chicken Pinoy dance
don't worry Marley, after you publish this article "tickets sold would become 933"
These two black fighters should make their venue out of US and we will see cockroaches and flies filling the benches. What they should do instead is to turn their match into a hair pulling contest which could perhaps gain interest from viewers ha ha ha....
great, all this big talk between the two about how great they are as fighters esp alexander and his team talk about how big they are and wanting only the big fights shows the drawing power of the two comedians.
Why is Packroids always hanging by the Latinos, attending Hispanic gatherings or fighting in LA or Tejas. Using his nasty cut spanish if his Failipinos are so great.
Latino folks should take a look at this clown, that after he goes to his Island to show to our account and talk garbage
Pacquiao was being paid to attend Latinos parties. They want Pacquiao to stop executing mexican boxers, they wanted him to become their amigo.
Why are people not buying tickets to see this fight? Because both of them are Afro-American slick fighters like like what Bernard Hopkins was saying. In other words they're both boring fighters just like Floyd Mayweather Jr.!!!
coldcakes...Mr. Marley made a funny.
Papa knows best. hehehe
If the promoters only knew in advance, they could have just sold pancakes and probably make more money.
MR KEVIN LOLE, THIS IS YOUR TIME TO CONVINCE BOXING FANS TO BUY TICKETS, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.
Maybe they'll listen to Arum next time.
He knows if a fighter can draw or not.
Berto, hmp! *scoffs*
Challenge anybody that is a fool to risk, on any two Felipino fighting each other, any WHERE in the WORLD, not PI.
These areTwo Black folk fighting each other.
We challenge any promoter (especially if is Felipino,doubt very much) to find two FELIPINO fighters two fight each other and see how much attendance they will gather, before Pinoy fan huggers open their smelly postizo mouth as usual.
See IF Arum or any other Mexican, American, England, Japanese RISK their money with these two Pinoy clowns. Perhaps he will be talking spanish for them.
We bet is no real rethoric, but lies and trash talk.
We put our money where our mouth is. Challenge anybody that is a fool to risk.
These two black fighters should make their venue out of US and we will see cockroaches and flies filling the benches. What they should do instead is to turn their match into a hair pulling contest which could perhaps gain interest from viewers ha ha ha....
YEAH, THESE CLOWNS ARE NOW FINDING OUT THAT THEY ARE JUST LIKE WHAT THEY ARE - CLOWNS.
OH, AND I ALMOST FORGOT, THEY ARE ALSO BIG - BIG MOUTHS, HEHEHE.
Bradley who and Alexander who? They both sound like a cold cuts. They both talk too much and they think they are better than Manny. Where' the Love?
Challenge anybody that is a fool to risk, on any two Felipino fighting each other, any WHERE in the WORLD, not PI.
These areTwo Black folk fighting each other.
We challenge any promoter (especially if is Felipino,doubt very much) to find two FELIPINO fighters two fight each other and see how much attendance they will gather, before Pinoy fan huggers open their smelly postizo mouth as usual.
See IF Arum or any other Mexican, American, England, Japanese RISK their money with these two Pinoy clowns. Perhaps he will be talking spanish for them.
We bet is no real rethoric, but lies and trash talk.
We put our money where our mouth is. Challenge anybody that is a fool to risk.
Wow that's pathetic... And both are so boostfull bout how they are big draws n can pack a stadium if they fight PAC lol.. If ever they fight PAC in MGM that holds 16000 and it's sold out... U can guarantee 15661 are PAC fans lol.
You forgot the 339 is also a shared draw.
LOL
i wonder how many of the 339 will be a no-show on fight night, and how many will ask for a refund before the fight, hah!
these two are seeking a pacquiao fight just like juanita marquez. all three suck in ticket sales. pathetic trio...
they should have hired Hopkins and have him run the PR. he could have hyped up the fight more since the two are BLACK-AMERICAN FIGHTERS, SLICK STYLE, FROM THE STREETS OF AMERICA and "BUILT FORD TOUGH" OR "MADE IN AMERICA"!!!
they should invite the pacman and floyd jr at ringside and have them sign autogaphs after the fight, that way fans would watch the fight.
Hahaha! Slick Black Fighters from inner cities! Got no excitement to show! I'm sure this is gonna be another boring fight just like my previous fight!
damn right you were,,,hahaha
Here we go again, Bradley and Alexander calling Pacquiao. These guys cannot even cover their plane and hotel rooms expenses, and want to fight the Pacman! Bradley should stay in Palm Spring where he can fill up 400 seat auditorium.
Pathetic.....339 tickets as of today?
Perhaps the writer for Yahoo sports, Kevin Iole, could help out with the ticket sales since there is no need to "boycott" this fight.
That's pronounced "A-hole" right?
hahahaha......
Someone at NowBoxing actually said that the winner of the Alexander
vs Bradley fight should be crowned as the new P4P king.
THAT'S ONE OF THE BIGGEST JOKE I HAVE EVER HEARD.
Next thing you know Marquez will be dictating that he should get a 50% share against Pacquiao. WAIT!
Schaefer actually made that offer to Arum for Marquez against Pacquiao. LMAO!
Arum said that Marquez should fight Berto first before getting a shot at Pacquiao. If that fight is made, it will sell about 339 tickets.
That would shake Marquez from his delusions and accept a $1 million dollar paycheck to fight Pacquiao again. Too bad Marquez is too scared to fight anyone at 140, except the remains of Morales.
Marquez won't fight anyone else at 140 or at 147 like Berto.
Marquez is saving him self to get an ass kicking from Pacquiao and not from anyone else.
He knows that an ass kicking from anyone else would end all possibility of getting a third fight with Pacquiao.
As long as Marquez won't fight anyone legit above 135, he should never get a shot at Pacquiao. Too many are in line that can kick Marquez's ass. They should have an elimination tournament, Berto against Marquez, the winner of Bradley/Devon will then fight the winner of Berto/Marquez.
So who would be against that? Only Marquez would be against it, he can't beat any of those three.
Yea, I don't understand Marquez's strategy trying to land a 3rd fight with Pacquiao. He is supposed to be smart guy....I guess not too smart since he turned down $750K to fight for $30K in Indonesia and lose.
Iole, you are wanted here now to help avert a potential HBO-covered boxing match!
These two guys over rate themselves in order to get in the ring with Manny. You are a failure at having people boycott watching Pacman's fights; you might succeed now in helping Bradley & Alexander and their promoters to at least recover the cost of training. HBO will surely be losing in this venture; they'll just recover their loss here in the Pacman-Mosley fight.
Iole, you are wanted here now to help avert a FLOP of the potential HBO-covered boxing match!
These two guys over rate themselves in order to get in the ring with Manny. You are a failure at having people boycott watching Pacman's fights; you might succeed now in helping Bradley & Alexander and their promoters to at least recover the cost of training. HBO will surely be losing in this venture; they'll just recover their loss here in the Pacman-Mosley fight.
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Michael..Kindly ask Kevin Lole How many seats would he like.It's coming to him for free just to fill the ringside.ASAP please..he might get those spot behind the judges.LOLE and he might as well bring his pillow with him just in case.hahaha
Challenge anybody that is a fool to risk, on any two Felipino fighting each other, any WHERE in the WORLD, not PI.
These areTwo Black folk fighting each other.
We challenge any promoter (especially if is Felipino,doubt very much) to find two FELIPINO fighters two fight each other and see how much attendance they will gather, before Pinoy fan huggers open their smelly postizo mouth as usual.
See IF Arum or any other Mexican, American, England, Japanese RISK their money with these two Pinoy clowns. Perhaps he will be talking spanish for them.
We bet is no real rethoric, but lies and trash talk.
We put our money where our mouth is. Challenge anybody that is a fool to risk.
its the r3tard guy above again..
apologies.
notice the ab-normal language
tsk tsk tsk
THAT'S THE REALITY ALEXANDER AND BRADLEY ARE NOT POPULAR BOXERS SAME AS BERTO.THEY CANNOT SELL TICKETS IN THEIR OWN BACKYARD...INSIDE USA. EVEN THEY GOOD UNDEFEATED RECORDS...but in REALITY THEY ARE NOT A CROWD PLEASER. MAY BE FLOYD WILL BUY THOUSANDS OF TICKETS AND GIVE IT FREE TO CHRIS W, DAVE L AND TO HIS BLIND(acnnot acept reality;it all leads to Manny the P4P KING) FOLLOWERS.
So, WATCH OUT MANNY vs MOSLEY.
YOU SEE.....CRITICS AND ANTI-MANNY....they SAID MANNY SHOULD FIGHT THIS.....AND THAT.....BUT THE REALITY BOXING IS BUSINESS. ARUM IS CORRECT THEY HAVE TO SALE TICKETS IN ORDER TO BE A SUCCESS IN BOXING.
YOU WATCH MOSLEY vs MANNY which is the right CHOICE against BERTO AND MARQUEZ. IF MOSLEY IS GOOD enough for FLOYD, then MANNY vs MOSLEY is BETTER.
IT ALL LEADS TO MANNY. HIS STYLE AND A WARRIOR ATTITUDE OF BXING SELLS THOUSANDS OF TICKETS.
BUT ONE DAY...MAY BE ONE DAY...FLOYD NEEDS $$$..THEN HE HAS NO CHOICE BUT TO FIGHT MANNY...TO EARN $$$$.
AT THE MOMENT HE'S SCARED TO BE KO BY MANNY-ASK FLOYD SR. SOLUTION, ERALY RETIREM NT=DAMAGED GOODS= CANNOT TAKE BODY SHOTS ANYMORE=EVADING MANNY AND MARTINEZ.
I'm sorry. But as good as these clowns are they can't fill seats with asses. They just didn't have the right promotion behind them to spark enough interest. HBO did really nothing to bring their name to recognition and finally their style is not pleasing to most of the casual fans.
And after we get a winner out of this fight he still won't be a in high ratings boxer on TV.
The winner will have to face and beat Kahn in order to demand 2-3 mil a fight.
are these fighters the one Hopkins and his racist bandwagon are saying, should fight Pacman rather than Mosley?! " slick black fighters they said? Yeah they look slick though, drench with engine oil.haha Hopkins should help buy those tickets to protect his black American street fighters or else i'm gonna be there sitting beside KEVIN LOLE drinking coffee to keep me awake throughout the fight..Free tickets!!! yeah
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