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> there aren't enough boxing fans in the US to fill a single NFL stadium, much less 16 a week. Do you have any proof for this at all? The most anticipated boxi
by methodical 2y ago
> there aren't enough boxing fans in the US to fill a single NFL stadium, much less 16 a week.
Do you have any proof for this at all? The most anticipated boxing matches usually get over a million pay-per-view buys, not including the tickets sold for the actual arenas.
- aidenn0 2y agoAnd the Superbowl gets over 100M viewers -- a two-orders-of-magnitude difference. [edit] Yes, there are literally more than 80,250 (MetLife stadium's capacity) fans of boxing in the US. However e.g. the Kingdom Arena (location of Fury v. Ngannaou) seats about 30,000. If there were a 17 week boxing match season in the US, it clearly would be a much smaller draw than gridiron football, and that doesn't even include the college game, which has 8 stadiums that seat over 100k (and 6 more that are larger than MetLife).
- methodical 2y agoPPV Sales can't be compared to Super Bowl viewership numbers, considering there's a pretty significant difference between watching something included with your existing TV subscription versus paying another $50+ to watch a one-night event. I'm not trying to argue that boxing matches are necessarily on the same level of viewership as the Super Bowl, but you can't compare them directly like that. I'm also not arguing that boxing could sell out NFL stadiums over multi-week spans, I'm directly arguing the point that "there aren't enough boxing fans in the US to fill an entire NFL stadium", which is completely false.