Groves must have had his confidence dented. He's more of a known quantity and he threw everything at Froch last time and he still kept coming. At some point Froch will catch him and hopefully less controversially, Groves will end up on his arse. Won't be going but I'll be watching on box office.
He threw everything at him and as a result was leading on all of the judges score cards, he doesn't need to knock Froch out, he's capable of out boxing him as he's already shown. Just needs to manage his fight a little better and he'll stand a great chance.
Groves is by no means chinny but I just don't believe he can get close enough to score and stay away from Froch, for the full distance. Should be a cracker either way and I genuinely have no preference for a winner.
I backed Froch heavily last time around, but I thought he got lucky in the end with the fight being stopped. I think although Froch had the ascendancy, Groves would have taken it on points if it had gone 12 rounds. Can't say I have a preference but I'll probably flutter somewhere around Groves in the 6th. Does anyone know if Anthony Joshua is likely for the undercard? Now that's a lad who'll go far.
Prices are very steep... Bowl Ticket prices are £30, £40, £60, £80 and £100. Pitch seating prices are £60, £80, £100, £200, £300 and £500. VIP ringside price £1,500.
I suspect the people paying £30 will complain, once they get there and find out they can't see anything.
If they sell 90,000 seats they will equal the 2 highest crowds for a boxing match in this country. Both featured the same fighter. Wonder how many know, without googling?
I know the biggest recent attendances were at Hatton fights, but I'm pretty sure they were around 50,000, so I'm assume it was a long time ago. I would expect Cooper v Ali would have been the biggest?
Cooper vs Ali only got 25k, amazingly. EDIT: The first match between Cooper and Ali, at Wembley, got 25k. They also fought at Highbury and that bout had 46k. Hatton holds the record in Britain I think, his 2008 bout with Lazcano at Eastlands got 55k. EDIT: Scratch that, apparently 70k turned up to the old Olympic Stadium in London in the 30s for a boxing match. EDIT 2: Len Harvey got 90k apparently.
Len Harvey at White City is right but it was in the 1930s. First time he was defending his heavweight title second time fighting for, and winning, the light heavyweight title. Reputedly 90,000 at both fights. Wasn't because of local support as he was from Cornwall. Must admit I wouldn't have guessed that before reading it the other day in a newspaper article.
Just edited that into my post before I saw yours. People are acting as if this Groves-Froch will be a record, it's nowhere near it at the moment. Though it does look like it will be a pretty big attendance.
I was planning on going, but outside of the really expensive seats, you're so far away you'll basically be watching it on the big screens and the Club Wembley seats are on the second tier, so aren't up to much either. It was the £500, £300 and £200 seats that sold out first.
