07-27-2017, 10:31 PM
(07-27-2017, 07:39 AM)African Monkey Wrote:(07-27-2017, 04:51 AM)U.K. Fight Fan Wrote: http://www.eventim.co.uk/world-championship-boxing-manchester-Tickets.html?affiliate=EUK&doc=artistPages%2Ftickets&fun=artist&action=tickets&key=1962443%249872814&jumpIn=yTix&kuid=471755&from=erdetaila
Ticket sales for Parker - Fury are piss poor at the minute. Not sold out tier one yet according to the seating plan and tier 2 hasn't even opened. Can only be about 2k sold so far. Hopefully they announce a decent undercard and sales pick up. If not, I think it could be about 6-8k in a 20k arena which is ridiculous. Real possibility of the whole card getting pulled. Warren has a history of pulling poor selling cards.
Is Frank Warren involved or is it Mick Hennessy running the whole thing? I would have thought that if Frank Warren ran the show that he would involve Billy Joe Saunders and Terry Flanagan on the same card although Flanagan is carrying an injury at the moment.
Fat Mick is taking the lead on the promotion but Fury has a tv deal with boxnation, which is Frank's, and Frank is fronting all the money. Saunders is already fighting Willie Monroe on 19th Sept and Flanagan has an injury as you said. Plus if he's fit, he's likely to fight Verdejo which will probably headline another card. Tyson Fury has retired (again) so I doubt he'll be on the card. So that's basically all of Frank's top level stable unavailable. They should have done this in NZ. At least Parker has a following there. Neither have a following in the UK.