(Photo credit: Esther Lin/Showtime) By Dan Ambrose: If boxing fans want to purchase tickets for the September 14th fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Saul “Canelo” Alvarez they’re going to have to move on the tickets as soon as possible because Dan Rafael is reporting that there are only 64 tickets left for the fight.
He says that he checked on ticketmaster and the only tickets he could find were the $2000 tickets. You can understand why those tickets are still available. The cheaper tickets were all sold out earlier today.
There’s still no word about how much the fight will sell for on pay per view but you can guess $70 could be a good starting number. I can’t imagine it going for much more than that because this isn’t like a fight between Mayweather and a well-known fighter.
Canelo is known well among hardcore boxing fans and his Mexican fans, but the casual fan base still don’t have much of an idea who Canelo is. That’s why when you hear Oscar De La Hoya talking about the Mayweather-Canelo fight breaking PPV numbers set back in 2007 between De La Hoya and Mayweather, it just sounds like dream stuff from Oscar.
This fight isn’t breaking any records, and I’m betting it won’t top more than 1.6 million PPV buys at best. Golden Boy Promotions still hasn’t said who the co-feature bout will be and it’s going to need a good undercard for this card to hit the 1.7 million PPV mark.
I think even if Golden Boy were to put stars like Miguel Cotto, Lucas Matthysse, Danny Garcia, Amir Khan, Lamont Peterson and Lamont Peterson on the undercard, it still wouldn’t hit the 1.7 million PPV mark because the fight is still too early in Canelo’s career for the casual boxing fans in the United States to know who he is.
This fight won’t break records or even come close to it, but it’ll do a lot better than Mayweather’s last fight against Robert Guerrero, and it might do better than the 1.5 million PPV buys that Mayweather-Cotto & Canelo-Mosley did last year in May.
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