Pacquiao-Marquez tickets almost sold out after first day of sales
July 23rd, 2011
By Chris Williams: After only one day of sales the tickets for the November 12th bout between World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion and WBA/WBO lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez (53-5-1, 39 KO’s) are almost completely sold out. According to Kevin Iole on his twitter, there only 2000 tickets left after the first day for the fight at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Whether that’s good enough to beat Pacquiao it’s hard to say. Frankly, I think the weight will end up beating Marquez more than anything. Pacquiao and his team weren’t exactly generous when it came to giving the smaller 135 pound Marquez much of a catch weight to operate at. The fight will take place at 144, just three pounds under the upper limit of the welterweight division.
That means that Marquez is likely going to be fighting a much bigger Pacquiao, who is used to fighting at this weight. Marquez has only fought over 140 once in his career and looked slow, fat and weak in his loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr in 2009. Marquez turns 38 next month. He recently beat little known southpaw Likar Ramos by a 1st round knockout last weekend in something of a joke of a fight. Ramos went down with a weak right to the head and stayed down. If that was supposed to get boxing fans interested in seeing Pacquiao-Marquez, I think it had the opposite affect.
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In all of the boxing bouts that pacman had fought, it is the
pacquiao-marquez that is most entertaining.
its the match-up that sells not the boxer
If Marquez were so popular, why did any of his other fights not sell?
It is more correct to say: “Marquez is attacking the crowd because they want to see him get beat up bad.”
You have the balls to cut off the sentence after the word “crowd”.
How would you feel if I had cut off the above sentence after the word “off”?
@aloha
Don’t waste your breath man, williams knew the facts prior to writing this trash..
He’s fat too obsessed with the pacman not to know. He is just messing with our heads..
This is the type of articles that you get when you don’t have any ideas about the man behind the words!
Have a good day and enjoy the hawaiin punch!!
Thats the same amount of tickets were left after the 1st day of the Mayweather/Ortiz fight…
This author is truly obsessed with Pacquiao. How could be Marquez be more popular than Pacquiao? When Marquez fought at MGM he got only a ticket sale of more or less 6,000 sold. On Pacquiao/Mosley fight they almost sold out in just 3 hours. With Mayweather/Ortiz fight which is much closer date than Pacquiao/Marquez doesn’t even sold any closer to half of the MGM capacity. Poor boy Chris what a loser. lol
FLOYD IS COWARD, DUCKER
Of course! It will sell.
I like how chris williams wrote that fighters been fed to pacquiao. Chris knows pac is a beast when that bell rings! But real talk…. Marquez didnt sell those tickets, pacquiao did.
This is a mismatch, and you all will see why.
Chris, how about your idol Floyd’s fight with Ortiz? How many tickets have been sold?
haha… its marquez whos solding out tickets common i know your not stupid but your trying to be one
just shutup and give marquez the leverage yourself
floyd gettin 40 mill for ortiz fight wether it sell out or not. wuts your idol bob arums puppet gettin to fight a 38 year old man?
I dont care what people said about Pacquiao. Marquez want this fight so be it.If he lose thats good for him if he win i dont care
Pacquiao is no.1 draw in boxing.
Pacquiao’s fights don’t really sell? hmmmm, lets look at his last 3.
Clottey: 50,000+ seats filled
Margarito: 40,000+ seats filled
Mosley: Maximum capacity of 16,000, nearly all sold out 3 hours in.
Just throwing that out
Mayweather vs. Ortiz will eventually sell out! After Floyd and Oscar buy out all the unsold tickets!
The same logic can be applied to Roach’s condition that Pac won’t fight anyone above 150 lbs. Why?
Because if Pac fought Martinez, for example, at 151 or 152 lbs it would be for a light middleweight belt. And we already know that Pac no longer has plans of defending a t i t l e at light middleweight.
Therefore, a 150 lb catchweight would mean that a fight with Martinez at 150 lbs would be a non-t i t l e fight since both Pac and Martinez do not hold belts at 154 lbs, making the prospects of this fight highly unlikely in the foreseeable future.
@Scott…
If Pac agreed to fight Marquez at 143 or 142 or 141, then Pac’s WW belt would NOT have been on the line. Moreover, Marquez doesn’t have a junior ww t i t l e. Therefore, it made no sense to have the fight at 140 or 142 or 143 because it would NOT have been a t i t l e fight for either fighter.
This is why Marquez had no choice but to accept the 144 lb catchweight. Anybody making a huge deal between a 1 lb difference would have to be the biggest buffoon on planet Earth to believe that 144 lbs would really give Pac an extra advantage over 143 lbs.
As with Cotto, Marquez had ZERO problem with accepting the fight at 144 instead of 143 because in Marquez’ mind, he thinks he can beat Manny at any weight.
@Scott…
When it comes to determining catchweights, a welterweight sanctioned fight cannot be held at 143 lbs because 143 lbs is closer to the 140 lb junior ww limit. Hence, it has to be done at 144, since it is closer to the 147-lb WW limit. The same thing happened when Pac fought Cotto at 145 for Cotto’s belt.
This is determined upon negotiation and is written in each fighters’ contracts per approval of the commission and sanctioning bodies.
so what’s your point?
his fights are always the most popular, that is what counts not whats he doing when man-roid fights.
Floyd watched the Lady Ga Ga concert instead of Pacquiao’s fight with Mosely. Rumor has it that Floyd will attend a Backstreet Boys/New Kids On The Block concert instead of watching the Pacquiao/Marquez fight!
A lot of people are coming to thank Marquez for his achievements in he ring and will be wishing him well on his impending retirement, courtesy of the Pacman!
I’ve been waiting for the result of the ticket sales for Floyd/Ortiz and never heard a thing. Knowing how loud mouth Floydie is, always bragging about being the cash cow but him and his camp are so quiet about it. Are they maybe still cooking up on some numbers? I wondered about that because never heard about his ticket sales.
So when Manny fought Mosley and the tickets got almost sold out for in just 2 or 3 hours then Mosley is the draw and the reason why? Really, Chris Williams? You are a pathetic Pachater, Chris Williams.
CW the father of lies and bias has spoken again, this time telling boxig fans that if Marquez losses, that’s because:
1) He is old;
2) He is the smaller fighter; and
3) Pac has all the advantages.
This fight is fair and square in all respect. The best man wins and that’s Pac.
Yeah the reason why the tickets are sold very fast is because of Marquez, not Pacman. You are really a master of sarcasm Williams.
Yeah the reason why the tickets are sold very fast is because of Marquez, not Pacman. You are really a master of sarcasm Williams, that you are a critic rather than Level C writer.
the real boxing fans know the real good match and real fight, not like those picks tune up fight, why theres no news about the sales of the tickets of Void Floyd vs Vicious Victor, British fan are here in Vegas to watch the fight of Khan vs Judah, and they are invited by Void Floyd on gym to see him working out so he can promote his coming bout, Floyd work and train so hard he needs a lot of stamina to run all over the ring for the 12rnds….Xylo King is back Manny your next! i dought it.
@ heres the thing
Info in the Uk is a bit thin on the ground, the last i heard, Marquez wanted the fight to be made at 143lbs but Pacquiao refused to drop below 145lbs, the only place i seem to be able to find info is on sites similar to this one, and lets face it, the article writers here rarely base their info on fact!!!! Where did you get your info?
Hear’s something FUNNY.
When Pacquiao fought Morales the second time…Mayweather sat ringside and was CHEERING FOR PACQUIAO!
LMFAO!!!!!!
For those so-called boxing fans who don’t have a clue as to why this fight is at 144 instead of 140.
1) This is for Pac’s WELTERWEIGHT belt. If it were at 140, it would be a junior welterweight bout.
2) 144 lbs is closer to 147 hence the catchweight at 144. If it were 143, it would be closer to jr. ww, therefore the fight is at 144 instead of 143.
I will point out AGAIN.
In their last fight in 2008, JMM weighed in at 141 fight night while Pac weighed 145 day of the fight.
This is an EVEN match. Period.
why there is no news that Floyd/Ortiz is sold out and now Marquez/Pacquiao is almost sold out,based on what you are saying it was Marquez that sold the tickets in Floyd/Marquez fight,Floyd should fight Marquez again just to ride the star power of Marquez and have easy money.
Do you not think this fight sold out so fast because of the past two fights being epic, rather than it being because Marquez alone???? The Mayweather vs Marquez fight didn’t sell out as quick now did it??? Williams, if you can’t be impartial, why bother writing at all??
I will be watching this fight because the first two outings between the pair were among the best fights i have witnessed, and hopefully the third goes along the same lines. Not happy about the weight though, 140lbs would have offered a more competative match, but i don’t doubt for a second that Marquez will be in terrific shape regardless, he has chased this fight for years now, he won’t let us down now its made.
pac fanatics are excited for marquez pac. Pacquiao is the welterweight champion and he is fighting a LIGHT WEIGHT! The same light weight you criticized Floyd Jr. for fighting remember? Remember small bloated marquez? How soon we forget!!!
williams why are you so baised against pacquaio you seem to love maywather nothing he does is ever does is wrong like when he fought marquez at the full welter weight limit and even came in a few pounds over, no problem with that at all.
Pacman is unbelievable.Pacman is an extra-ordinary boxer.Pacman is one of the greatest boxer of all time.Pacman brings back the boxing into the world.Pacman is the Bruce Lee in this era.Pacman is the idol of all the people around the world except Floydiots.Pacman is an amazing boxer ever in the boxing history.So why don’t you also buy tickets Floydiots.Bwahahahahahaha!
are you blind??? marquez can sale tickets that fast?? you better write dogsssss, not boxing, you know nothing in boxing MR Wiliam….
Here’s what MOST PEOPLE seem to have forgotten.
In their 2008 fight at super featherweight, Pac weighed 145 on fight night and Marquez weighed 141 on fight night.
For those crying about Pac having a significant weight advantage, think again and smell the mcmuffins.
Take that Williams.
Williams loves Pacquiao so much that he ONLY writes about Pacquiao. Every time there is news about Pacquiao, he busts his nut like a 12-year old finding out he’s on puberty. That’s a FACT.
“Pacquiao and his team weren’t exactly generous when it came to giving the smaller 135 pound Marquez much of a catch weight to operate at. The fight will take place at 144, just three pounds under the upper limit of the welterweight division.”
Marquez was 145 on fight night with Katsidis!!!
The fight is still too far away yet too many excuses already…
We all know Pacquiao is the DRAW.
Williams is just pullin’ your leg folks.
HA HA HA HA HA……
GUYS!!! Chris William is my personal maid MICHAEL KONCZ.
HAHAHAHA! Marquez who????
HA HA HA. Hey Mr Williams, are you really a boxing writer? That it is Marquez who generates better sale for this fight, not Manny? Did you not read how much PPV sales Pacman got from his previous fights? And did you learn the attendance number during the Marquez-Katsidis fight? It generated more or less 5,000 audience only . Chris, better look for another job, or else, everybody will say you’re CRAZY, RETARDED.
Tickets sell cause of Marquez. PAC gets no love in Vegas.
Did Floyd vs Ortiz sellout?
katsidis vs marquez titles bout only 4,900 attendance what funny.crispy,funky crissy i love it..haha
marquez and katsidis fight only tickets sold 4,900 with a titles bout….i like you crissy u r still funny ,funky,crispy job weel done crissy…
Tickets buyers paid to see Pac or Marquez, I think it is more of the former.
Marquez a star, seriously? Ha ha ha! haven’t you heard the Pacquiao-Mosley ticket sale? Almost sold out in three hours. Now I’m beginning to think that you are really a Pacfan. Your just doing this to hype every Pacquiao’s fight. If that’s the case, well good Job. If not find another Job. HAHAHA!
yep fans are idiots but let them go head and waste their money
after marquez fights, tickets sales on pacman’s future fights will be sold out in an hour..