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Boxing promoter Bob Abrum may want to schedule fights at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, FL.
This news comes following an amended order from the State Of Florida deeming closed set sporting events “essential business”.
In a statement to ESPN, Abrum said he would speak with the WWE about holding boxing events at their facility.
“It’s very, very interesting, and we’re going to be in touch with them. There’s a possibility to use their facility to maybe do events without a crowd,” Arum stated. “We’re very close with Vince [McMahon] and the WWE. So let’s see, but we’re still not talking before June.”
When speaking on larger fights, such as Tyson Fury vs. Deontay Wilder, Abrum wants to hold off until either spectators are able to watch, or fighter pay is adjusted, due to lost revenue.
“Those are either going to have to wait ’til you have spectators, or if the fighters get antsy, they will have to deal with an adjustment in their purses because you will have cut off an important revenue source from the event.
For example, [Tyson] Fury and [Deontay] Wilder, the gate was close to $17 million, and that’s from the public buying tickets to the fight. How do you replace that? Well, if you don’t replace it, then somebody has to eat that.”
WWE recently worked with Bob Abrum and Tyson Fury making appearances for the company, including a match at Crown Jewel last October in Saudi Arabia.