With each in-ring achievement, the remarkable career of Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez continues to soar to new heights—even if his appeal at the box office appears to have long ago peaked.
For the third straight time, the Mexican icon saw a decline in ticket sales despite headlining yet another historic event. Alvarez moved up two weight divisions to challenge reigning light heavyweight titlist Sergey Kovalev, whom he knocked out in 11 rounds in the main event of their Nov. 2 clash at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The DAZN streamed event generated a live gate of $8.173 million from 10,005 tickets sold, as confirmed to BoxingScene.com by the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
Another 1,643 complimentary tickets were issued for the event, accounting for a total of 11,648 in attendance according to final receipts provided to the Nevada commission. The final figure falls nearly 3,000 short of the announced crowd of 14,490 on fight night.
The tally is roughly $500,000 less than what was generated from his previous Vegas outing, amassing nearly $8.7 million in tickets sales for his May 4 three-belt middleweight title unification win over Daniel Jacobs at T-Mobile Arena. Even that bout represented a 68% drop from his 12-round win over Gennadiy Golovkin in their Sept. 2018 rematch, also at T-Mobile Arena which grossed nearly $24.5 million in ticket sales, slightly down from the $27 million amassed in their first fight one year prior.
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