McGregor fight - Dublin Airport ?

Larkinage

Hi folks,

I wasn't sure exactly where to ask this but I imagine this forum would be my best bet.

Heading to Spain in the morning, flying at 7. I had hoped to watch the McGregor Mayweather fight but I'm not sure they will show it in either terminal bar. Would anyone happen to know for sure ? Ive certainly see matches and other sports shown in the bars at the airport but would it be a stretch to think they'll show a PPV event ?

Cheers

Cloudio9

No chance.

ted1

They've free wifi so you could watch it on a tablet

The Mig

Cloudio9 wrote: »

No chance.

https://twitter.com/DublinAirport/status/901723280440045568

Dublinflyer

I was reading that bars on the Strip in Vegas were charging €150 admission on the night.

Doltanian

Dublinflyer wrote: »

I was reading that bars on the Strip in Vegas were charging €150 admission on the night.

Apparently its a rule there.

Del2005

Dublinflyer wrote: »

I was reading that bars on the Strip in Vegas were charging €150 admission on the night.

It was $99 to get it on PPV in your home, I can't imagine how much they charge the mega casinos to get it.

Doltanian

Del2005 wrote: »

It was $99 to get it on PPV in your home, I can't imagine how much they charge the mega casinos to get it.

I guess they'd need it for the Sports book.

Negative_G

Cloudio9 wrote: »

No chance.

Dont suppose we'll see you defend your post anytime soon.

Bluffer.

indeq

Negative_G wrote: »

Dont suppose we'll see you defend your post anytime soon.

Bluffer.

He doesn't need to.

Negative_G

indeq wrote: »

He doesn't need to.

Who are you, his mother?

If people wish to give their thoughts in absolute terms as that poster did, all well and good. They most certainly can be called out on it when it transpires they are talking rubbish.

Irish Steve

OK Folks, time to move on, if we don't, the thread will be closed.

Dublinflyer

Doltanian wrote: »

Apparently its a rule there.

I was there 2 years ago and it was Superbowl Sunday and there were no cover charges for any of the bars out on the strip. The Owner of the Ri Ra bar in vegas said the UFC always do this for big fights but this was by far the biggest fee they had to charge.

No wonder they called it the money fight :eek:

coylemj

Dublinflyer wrote: »

I was there 2 years ago and it was Superbowl Sunday and there were no cover charges for any of the bars out on the strip. The Owner of the Ri Ra bar in vegas said the UFC always do this for big fights but this was by far the biggest fee they had to charge.

Superbowl is broadcast on network TV (Fox in 2017), it's not a PPV event. If a commercial premises wanted to show the McGregor fight, they had to sign up for the UFC terms and conditions.

martinsvi

in fairness I didn't believe they would show the fight either - it's an airport, wee hours of the morning, breakfast time for many.. last thing I want to see is two people fighting and dozens more shouting at the screen. Given how limited the Dublin Airport facilities are I don't think it was a pleasant experience for most.

Dublinflyer

coylemj wrote: »

Superbowl is broadcast on network TV (Fox in 2017), it's not a PPV event. If a commercial premises wanted to show the McGregor fight, they had to sign up for the UFC terms and conditions.

That's fair enough, still $150 is a bit on the steep side. I bet it was a shock for a few people but if you spend all that money just to get there whats and extra 150.

coylemj

Dublinflyer wrote: »

That's fair enough, still $150 is a bit on the steep side. I bet it was a shock for a few people but if you spend all that money just to get there whats and extra 150.

+1 that's exactly what occurred to me. Nobody is going to fly all the way to Vegas and not watch the fight somewhere. Captive audience stuck in the middle of the Nevada desert with nowhere to go = ripe for rip-off.

smurfjed

$150 was the charge in our hotel bar during his last fight, needless to say I had better ways to spend that $300....

TimHorton

$40 in New York

Tenger

Dublinflyer wrote: »

I was reading that bars on the Strip in Vegas were charging €150 admission on the night.

Nope. I read online that the MGM chain made a deal with Showtime, the 9 MGM hotels in Vegas itself were allowed to exclusively show the fight. No Purchase allowed in other bars.
Entry into those "fan areas" was approx $115-150.
Bars in Boston were charging $20-40.

Dublinflyer

Tenger wrote: »

Nope. I read online that the MGM chain made a deal with Showtime, the 9 MGM hotels in Vegas itself were allowed to exclusively show the fight. No Purchase allowed in other bars.
Entry into those "fan areas" was approx $115-150.
Bars in Boston were charging $20-40.

Papers mush have it wrong so....

http://www.independent.ie/sport/mcgregor-v-mayweather/irish-pub-forced-to-charge-customers-150-to-watch-floyd-mayweatherconor-mcgregor-fight-36071395.html

Collie D

Dublinflyer wrote: »

Papers mush have it wrong so....

http://www.independent.ie/sport/mcgregor-v-mayweather/irish-pub-forced-to-charge-customers-150-to-watch-floyd-mayweatherconor-mcgregor-fight-36071395.html

Who gets the money? The fight promotors? If it's the bar surely they can set their own price or none?

Massively confused by this!

Tenger

Collie D wrote: »

Who gets the money? The fight promotors? If it's the bar surely they can set their own price or none?

Massively confused by this!

That's a racket. Article linked explains, fight promoter 'owns' the fight so they impose a minimum charge for venues.

I hadn't read that, the article I read implied no where on the strip could screen it.

Dublinflyer

Tenger wrote: »

That's a racket. Article linked explains, fight promoter 'owns' the fight so they impose a minimum charge for venues.

I hadn't read that, the article I read implied no where on the strip could screen it.

Maybe the majority of the bars there did not bother showing it if the price was so high. A lot of the places there have big open areas that are almost on the street so I would guess that they would have had to shut down the more public areas and lose a load of capacity. It was touching 40c there last weekend so the idea of being on a packed bar may not be that attractive.

The whole thing was about making money and nothing else in my opinion. There was no belt on the line and Mayweather was always going to win. I am not a boxing fan but I thought after watching the fight Mayweather could have dropped him whenever he wanted, he never really looked under that much pressure and the other guy had run out of steam by the 4th. Ultimately the 2 guys put on a show and that's what people are paying for.

TimHorton

Tenger wrote: »

That's a racket. Article linked explains, fight promoter 'owns' the fight so they impose a minimum charge for venues.

I hadn't read that, the article I read implied no where on the strip could screen it.

Setanta ran the same Racket for GAA & 5/6 Nations Rugby in US Pubs for years , Setanta pipe the game into the Bar , Then Setanta send a rep to the bar to collect the $20/person and Setanta got the lot , The Bar got customers during a quiet part of the day. and that was it.