Canelo-Saunders fight at AT&T Stadium sets boxing attendance record with more than 73,000 fans

Lots of people packed into AT&T Stadium in Texas to watch the bout between Canelo Alvarez and Billy Joe Saunders.

So many individuals, the truth is, that the struggle set a U.S. indoor boxing attendance document — despite the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic remains to be happening.

Greater than 73,000 followers attended the struggle on the Dallas Cowboys’ stadium in Arlington, Texas, breaking the earlier document set at a Muhammad Ali struggle in 1978 by almost 10,000 individuals.

This isn’t the primary occasion in latest weeks to speak in confidence to followers like regular. UFC 261 on April 24 sold out the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida, virtually immediately. The 15,000 followers who bought tickets, nevertheless, have been met with a really stark warning that attending could lead to “death” or other “permanent damage” from the coronavirus.

America averaged greater than 42,000 new instances on Saturday, according to The New York Times, and about 45% of People have obtained a minimum of one shot of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Whereas case numbers are considerably down from there they have been at their worst again in January, the pandemic is clearly not over and never even half of the nation is vaccinated but. And based mostly off of movies and images from the struggle, social distancing protocols and masks sporting have been non-existent. 

Alvarez beat Saunders after an uppercut within the eighth spherical hit Saunders proper within the eye — one thing that ended the struggle and despatched Saunders to an area hospital as a precaution.

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Tens of hundreds of followers packed into AT&T Stadium on Saturday evening and set a brand new U.S. boxing document regardless of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Omar Vega/Getty Pictures)

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