There was a day when boxing, baseball and horse racing ruled this country’s sporting world, and for one night, boxing’s luster returned at T-Mobile Arena Saturday. The boxing purists celebrated the Canelo Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin fight — less than a month after the combat fight industry went Hollywood with Mayweather-McGregor. LVSportsBiz.com goes by the numbers.
5,000,000
The amount in dollars received by Alvarez for his purse.
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3,000,000
Amount in dollars for Gennady Golovkin’s purse
22,358
Attendance for Alvarez-Golovkin bout
16,219
Attendance for Mayweather-Pacquaio bout in 2015
14,623
Attendance for Mayweather-McGregor fight in August
7,735
The difference in attendance from Alvarez-Golovkin over Mayweather-McGregor
118-110
Judge Adalaide Byrd’s score total of Alvarez over Golovkin
79.99
HBO pay-per-view charge
1
Number of people who publicly supported Adalaide Byrd’s judging (Bob Bennett, NSAC executive director)
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Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle.
In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com.
After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent.
Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.
