Canelo vs GGG from 2017

Canelo vs. GGG Rematch Makes Las Vegas Boxing Mecca Again This Weekend

September 10, 2018 Alan Snel Canelo Alvarez, Gennady Golovkin, Sportsnista

By ALAN SNEL
LVSportsBiz.com

The big-time sports events just keep on coming in Las Vegas, which hosts the Canelo Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin boxing rematch at T-Mobile Arena Saturday.

A year ago, the duo fought in the same venue and a judge’s bizarre scorecard favoring Alvarez led the way to a controversial draw.

But nobody could dispute the gate receipts, which totaled more than $27 million thanks to more than 17,300 tickets sold (plus more than 900 comps). The Canelo-GGG gate was more than the Canelo-Mayweather gate, but less than than Mayweather-Pacquaio and Mayweather-McGregor in Nevada.

Monday, LVSportsBiz.com met Las Vegas’ Sportsnista — Cassandra Cousineau of Las Vegas — to discuss the economic impacts and marketing issues facing Canelo-GGG II. We covered a lot of ground, from the subdued marketing of the fight to the visitors’ impact to the role of Las Vegas as America’s boxing mecca. Here’s the LVSportsBiz.com-Sportsnista interview outside T-Mobile Arena today.

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Alan Snel

Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. 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.

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To contact LVSportsBiz.com Publisher Alan Snel or buy his book, Bicycle Man: Life of Journeys, email him at asnel@LVSportsBiz.com

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