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

Canelo vs GGG from 2017

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.

Last year’s fight.

 

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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