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Old 11-26-2007, 10:17 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Gygax View Post
Calzaghe has had offers to fight in Vegas a few times. He talked about it during an ESPN Friday Night Fights interview. He said he would love to, but the offers for the Wales fights always blow away the Vegas offers.

The problem comes with the promoters. Even Don King has said he likes promoting over there in the Millenium Stadium because with 45,000 plus in attendance, the live gate is huge, and the broadcast, be it PPV or live on HBO/Showtime, comes off fine. Now if they could sell out a stadium over in the States, you would find the promoters being more forceful in getting him over here.
Thanks for the info, Gygax. "The problem comes with the promoters." Yup, that just about sums it up.

They can't sell out yet they changed the time of his last fight to broadcast prime-time in the U.S. I'm glad they did change it - that was a good fight to watch live.
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