America has states larger than England and the rest of thoes countries are 3rd world. Very flawed logic. But i can appreciate the point your trying to make.
11,000 Englishmen purchased tickets in England for Hattons fight against Castello. That was crazy! I never seen somthing like that. It was like a soccer match in Europe. Walkin in a Hatton wonderland! classic!
What about Frank Shamrock and Cung Le? How many did they sell at the last strikeforce/elitexc show?
Hatton could sell out the biggest stadium in Manchester. I don't know about Wembly. In the US, if you put Cotto - Mayweather in New York it could sell out Yankee Stadium or come pretty damn close. There are a lot of Puerto Ricans in the Bronx.
Do you think that if the UFC put together a seriously stacked card that was heavily marketed that they could sell out a stadium? Im talking something with all the big names and some serious hype behind it...Maybe even pay a big name boxer to step in there
The biggest stadium in Manchester is Old Trafford which holds 76,000 people for football, it's probably be 80,000+ for boxing. He wouldn't sell that out, no way. He's not THAT big a draw yet, he's not even a household name.
The biggest attendance at a fight in Britain is 47,000 in '93 for the fight between Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank. That was a HUGE fight. Both were household names who had been in huge fights on terrestrial TV for the previous 4 or 5 years.
You're talking about the IBO champion selling twice that?? Not a chance
This thread makes no sense--how many seats they sell depends entirely on the cost of tickets. Make every ticket $5, and Hatton easily sells out Old Trafford, and Rampage/Chuck 3 easily sells out nearly any football stadium in America.
Pride sold out Saitama Super Arena last September for the OWGP final. I believe it seats about 40 to 45 000 fans. Their last few shows came no where close though. Gomi's last fight in Japan was only in front of about 9 000 fans in Yokohama.