Joshua sells 17,000 tickets for US debut at 4x the price of Wilders.

[The Big Dunn]

man wave the white flag those seats have always been blocked off. Stiverne did 10K in attendance at barclays and I don't see this fight cracking that unless they just hand out free tickets at a crazy rate.

the problem here is there is a crowded market. You have Joshua fight also in NYC, you have GGG fight also in NYC, and you just had Crawford/Khan also in NYC. Wilder being in NYC too close to that many other big name fighters fighting near his same date in the same damn city is why Wilder are not selling. Many folks already spent money on another NYC fight or saved their money for Joshua and GGG and you add that to a lackluster opponent Wilder is facing. These numbers going to be brutal on fight night.

Doesn't each fighter have a distinct base of fans from which to draw?

AJ is bringing in a ton of British fans that GGG and Wilder will not. Since they have to fly and make hotel reservations I'm sure they booked early. GGG will be supported by a lot of ethnic European fans in the greater NYC area and the arena will be configured for less seats then the AJ fight will be. Wilder is going to draw from the urban African American market. I expect he and GGG fights will sell more tickets closer to the day of the fight.

I think the GGG/rolls fight likely does the worst because he is coming off a loss and rolls is a non entity.

[bigdunny1]

Doesn't each fighter have a distinct base of fans from which to draw?

AJ is bringing in a ton of British fans that GGG and Wilder will not. Since they have to fly and make hotel reservations I'm sure they booked early. GGG will be supported by a lot of ethnic European fans in the greater NYC area and the arena will be configured for less seats then the AJ fight will be. Wilder is going to draw from the urban African American market. I expect he and GGG fights will sell more tickets closer to the day of the fight.

I think the GGG/rolls fight likely does the worst because he is coming off a loss and rolls is a non entity.

I think they kind of suffer a bit and would of done better business if not for a hectic stretch of big name fighters fighting at same time in NY.

Crawford/Khan did only 14K in attendance and that's with it getting constant attention from it being a PPV bout and ESPN going on a full blitz talking about all week long on every program across all their platforms. I think Wilder going to do less then 10K in attendance. But GGG will do the absolute worst. Nobody wants to talk about it but his mexican fanbase is all but dead. That's a factor in his drop in popularity the way his latino fanbase all but abandoned him he lost in a fight where he refused to fight Mexican Style, then fell off the face of the earth barely does any more media engagements and gone through a complete make over the dude don't speak English no more or kiss azzz to Mexicans lol, fired his Mexican trainer, and is fighting a dude not even in the top 100 rankings at middleweight then you add all these other fights in NYC at the same time that fight isn't selling they already got dirt cheap tickets and nobody is biting. I think the shape of what's left of his Mexican Fanbase is why they put this fight in a crowded NYC instead of out in California.

Joshua fight is the big unknown because it's his first fight in the US and the brits seem to be showing up at the box office so it might be immune to all the NYC competition going on.

[chrisJS]

It doesn't matter what venue they fight in if it's Joshua he'll have the vast majority of the fans in the area. Vegas, Wilder's hometown, Brooklyn etc; the tickets will be mostly snapped up the moment they go on sale. They are the most passionate and willing to travel fan base there is and they have the money. Plus any excuse to escape gray skies and the rain and they are off.

[DaNeutral.]

If Wilder sells 68k tickets for Breazeale he could match Joshua gate.

68? LoL, he will be lucky to do 6 to 8.

[jas]

Hang on, this includes tickets people buy and then put on stubhub right?

[Yoozook9]

Who cares? None of that money is going to anyone here.

[STREET CLEANER]

Who's the A side in the US?

Told about 17,000 tickets have been sold for Anthony Joshua’s U.S. debut at MSG, with around 3,000 left. About 10,000 traveling Brits expected. Maybe Eddie Hearn knows more about U.S. market than Bob joked about last week

— Mike Coppinger (@MikeCoppinger)

Never seen somebody so excited in how much a fighter makes than actually who he is fighting. It seems you care more about his bank account than him fighting.

[Mr.365]

How many tickets has Tyson Fury sold so far?

[Phenom]

I would be surprised if they do AJ fanbase are more casual and feminine unlike Ricky Hatton or Tyson Fury

[Robbie Barrett]

Wilder-Breazeale got an attendance of 13k (thousands of tickets given away). Joshua getting gates over 5x larger than Wilder's in Wilder's home country.