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Floyd Mayweather explains ticket disaster and claims ‘I don’t point fingers’ after UK debut in front of empty arena
FLOYD Mayweather claimed tickets going on sale too late was to blame for the awful turnout at his UK debut.
The ring icon, 46, fought Aaron Chalmers in an eight-round exhibition bout at London’s O2 Arena.
It was the first time Mayweather has ever fought on British soil during a legendary career.
But the bout took place in front of a virtually empty 20,000-seat arena.
Then entire top tier was shut off for Saturday night’s card.
And the lower tier was no more than half full – meaning the attendance was likely under 5,000.
But Mayweather reckons the ticket-selling process was to blame for the poor turnout.
Speaking in his post-fight press conference, he said: “We did this in one month – not even four weeks.
“I think the tickets should’ve went on sale a lot faster.
“My new team is still learning. I have got to take my hat off to them, it’s not their fault.
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“It’s just when we fight in the US, as soon as we announce the fight, tickets are on sale.
“Here, we announced the fight and the tickets didn’t go on sale until a week or two weeks later.”
Mayweather added: “I don’t point fingers. We work together as a team.
“When you buy tickets over here, you don’t really want to spend money.
“In America we don’t mind spending money.”
Mayweather took on former reality TV star Chalmers in his British bow.
He stepped into the ring wearing the British flag on his shorts in a bid to appeal to his UK fans.
Speaking in the ring after the fight, he said: “I would like to thank all the fans in the UK.
“The United Kingdom is unbelievable – the UK is becoming the Mecca of boxing.
“Me and Aaron Chalmers had a chance to come together and we had fun for eight rounds.
“If the UK fans want me to come back, I’m coming back.”
If IT Workers Stay Home, What Happens to ‘the Most Empty Downtown in America’?
[T]he vacancy rate has jumped to 24 percent from 5 percent since 2019. Occupancy of the city’s offices is roughly 7 percentage points below that of those in the average major American city, according to Kastle, the building security firm.
More ominous for the city is that its downtown business district — the bedrock of its economy and tax base — revolves around a technology industry that is uniquely equipped and enthusiastic about letting workers stay home indefinitely. In the space of a few months, Jeremy Stoppelman, the chief executive of Yelp, went from running a company that was rooted in the city to vacating Yelp’s longtime headquarters and allowing its roughly 4,400 employees to work from anywhere in their country.
“I feel like I’ve seen the future,” he said.
Decisions like that, played out across thousands of remote and hybrid work arrangements, have forced office owners and the businesses that rely on them to figure out what’s next. This has made the San Francisco area something of a test case in the multibillion-dollar question of what the nation’s central business districts will look like when an increased amount of business is done at home…. The city’s chief economist, Ted Egan, has warned about a looming loss of tax revenue as vacancies pile up. Brokers have tried to counter that narrative by talking up a “flight to quality” in which companies upgrade to higher-end space. Business groups and city leaders hope to recast the urban core as a more residential neighborhood built around people as well as businesses but leave out that office rents would probably have to plunge for those plans to be viable.
Below the surface of spin is a downtown that is trying to adapt to what amounts to a three-day workweek…. On Wednesdays, offices in San Francisco are at roughly 50 percent of their prepandemic levels; on Fridays, they’re not even at 30 percent…. In a typical downturn, the turnaround is a fairly simple equation of rents falling far enough to attract new tenants and the economy improving fast enough to stimulate new demand. But now there’s a more existential question of what the point of a city’s downtown even is.
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