Don't know if this is mentioned in the article, but apparently, front row seats are going for £150,000, and row six, people are offering £15,000.
It's crazy money, but the funny thing is that it's probably one of the only boxing matches that it's worth spending the money on (comparatively). Back in the day, Tyson tickets would resell for thousands, but then he'd knock them out in the first round and people would be livid. At least with this fight it's almost certainly going to go 12 rounds.
This'll be the first boxing PPV I've bought since Prince Naseem vs Barrera, which was like 2001.
For some inexplicable reason i actually find boxing quite an interesting sport. Not that i actually watch it or anything, but when it catches my eye in say, a pub, i do tend to keep watching.
Perhaps because boxing is such a nice analogy for human conflict in the greater sense of the word... it has offensive as well as defensive techniques and both are used in a strategic as well as a tactical sense. I often imagine a historical conflict between two powerful nation states as a boxing fight, it's quite revealing when you look at what happens over the course of the conflict and try to understand the rationale behind certain events (tiredness starts to become a factor, as does dogged determination to win) etc. For instance, when you look at the first world war i see Germany as the smaller, more technically gifted fighter who needs to get a knockout quickly if he expects to win, whereas the triple entente is maybe more like the giant slow lumbering fighter who can take a lot of punches and has time on his side.
Ryoki wrote:For some inexplicable reason i actually find boxing quite an interesting sport. Not that i actually watch it or anything, but when it catches my eye in say, a pub, i do tend to keep watching.
Perhaps because boxing is such a nice analogy for human conflict in the greater sense of the word... it has offensive as well as defensive techniques and both are used in a strategic as well as a tactical sense. I often imagine a historical conflict between two powerful nation states as a boxing fight, it's quite revealing when you look at what happens over the course of the conflict and try to understand the rationale behind certain events (tiredness starts to become a factor, as does dogged determination to win) etc. For instance, when you look at the first world war i see Germany as the smaller, more technically gifted fighter who needs to get a knockout quickly if he expects to win, whereas the triple entente is maybe more like the giant slow lumbering fighter who can take a lot of punches and has time on his side.
Fascinating!
A smaller more technical fighter needs to make the fight go as long as possible, so the heavier opponent with less technique will no longer have strength on his side and they'll be easy pickings.
I used to love watching fighting matches but I can't do it anymore. It turns out I have some weird aversion to bones being broken. Not mine either, I've broken a few bones and it didn't bother me but when I see other people break bones I break out in a cold sweat and lose consciousness.
I was watching an MMA match, I forget who was fighting but one guy broke his arm while fighting and still won. I didn't know his arm was broken until they started showing the replays after the fight was won and blacked out on the spot.
I didn't know what caused it then and months later I was watching some other mma fight and the dude that won broke his little toe AFTER the fight was finished cause of some broken matt and I nearly passed out then too but managed to fight it off.
Weird fucking shit, even when I broke my hand I went to the hospital to get the cast removed and while there some dude with a broken leg came in the waiting room and was talking about how it broke to someone and I instantly got nauseous and felt like blacking out.
Κracus wrote:I used to love watching fighting matches but I can't do it anymore. It turns out I have some weird aversion to bones being broken. Not mine either, I've broken a few bones and it didn't bother me but when I see other people break bones I break out in a cold sweat and lose consciousness.
I was watching an MMA match, I forget who was fighting but one guy broke his arm while fighting and still won. I didn't know his arm was broken until they started showing the replays after the fight was won and blacked out on the spot.
I didn't know what caused it then and months later I was watching some other mma fight and the dude that won broke his little toe AFTER the fight was finished cause of some broken matt and I nearly passed out then too but managed to fight it off.
Weird fucking shit, even when I broke my hand I went to the hospital to get the cast removed and while there some dude with a broken leg came in the waiting room and was talking about how it broke to someone and I instantly got nauseous and felt like blacking out.
