Froch-Groves 2: Extra tickets going on sale for 5/31 fight at Wembley Stadium

By Boxing News - 04/16/2014 - Comments

froch75By Scott Gilfoid: Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn will have an additional 20,000 tickets on sale for the May 31st rematch between IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch (32-2, 23 KO’s) and George Groves (19-1, 5 KO’s) at the Wembley Stadium in London, UK. 60,000 tickets have already been sold for the fight, but the stadium fits 80,000 at max capacity. As such, the other 20,000 tickets will so go on sale in order to fill of the remainder of the stadium.

Hearn wants to maximize revenue for the fighters, and the only way of doing that is to sell every ticket and hope that there are enough fans out there to greedily scoop them up.

It’s weird how fate stepped in and gave Froch and Groves a second chance at a payday. They should be on their knees thanking referee Howard John Foster for prematurely stopping their previous fight in the 9th round last November, because if he had simply let the fight play out, we would have had a definitive winner and there wouldn’t be any controversy and zero need for a rematch.

So basically Foster’s stoppage gave these guys a second chance, because Froch’s win is tainted in the minds of many boxing fans, and it’s really like he got a no contest rather than a victory last November over Groves. Fans in many cases have mentally invalidated the results of that fight, and it’s left Froch with a win that few fans see as actual victory.

“It’s fantastic that we have managed to ensure even more fans will be in Wembly for this monumental occasion,” Hearn said. We have worked hard with the council, Wembley and Transport for London and I am delighted that we have come to an agreement to get as many fans as possible into the stadium to create an incredible atmosphere.”

If Groves whips Froch on May 31, it’s pretty much a given that we’ll be seeing a third fight between the two fighters later on this year, if the IBF and WBA lets them. I have a feeling they’ll force Groves to fight a mandatory before he faces Froch in a third fight.

When you think about it, a victory for Groves would actually be a good thing for Froch, because it would mean a third fight with Groves, and another big payday for Froch. He’s not going to make that kind of green fighting anyone else right, as Mikkel Kessler doesn’t seem to be interested in fighting Froch again, and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and Gennady Golovkin aren’t showing a lot of interest in fighting him either. Froch obviously won’t fight Sergey Kovalev and Adonis Stevenson, as they fight in a division above him as he doesn’t want to fight out of his own division. In other words, Groves is Froch’s best option for big paydays right now.



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