Odd tickets

[steve B]

Picked these up a while ago in a lot of stuff, and I'm getting around to figuring out just what they are.

Looks like coupons for a ticket maybe at a reduced price or free?
So far I've figured out that the fight was a championship, Bantamweight Salica-Escobar.

Was Marcus Griffen anybody important? I can't find any info on him, so I'm guessing no, but can't quite figure out why he'd get a comped ticket.
I know they're not signed, except most likely by some random clerk at MSG. Unless the unreadable initials at the bottom make sense to someone.

And of course the usual "what are they worth" question.

Steve B

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[D. Bergin]

I've had quite a few of these. All the ones I have had have been New York based fight cards. MSG or St. Nicholas Arena, generally.

Like you said, they are similar to comped tickets. These would be given out to certain people, but they had to go to the ticket office and exchange them for real tickets, and pay the taxes and fees on the face value of the ticket.

They could have been given to anybody. Commision members, friends of the promotion, even people on the street if they wanted to try to fill up some seats at a less popular fight card........similar to what they do at casino events today.

Not the greatest graphics so they are not really popular with ticket collectors, even though they are not really common. I got around 60 bucks for one that had an obscure Ezzard Charles fight on the card. Most would go in the $10-15 range or so. I have yet to run across one from a really significant fight card, though they are probably out there.

Sixto Escobar has a little bit of a following among some collectors, so I would guess yours could fall anywhere in the $25-50 range.

[steve B]

Cool, thanks.

If you're interested in one just let me know. I'd sell or swap for pretty much anything that's more my sort of stuff(a very wide range :) ) The batch of stuff had a couple things I wanted and a couple Orioles things my wife wanted and the rest is sort of in limbo. It's cool, but not really stuff I collect.

Steve B