“People are really craving entertainment,” says Regina Halmich about the hype surrounding her third fight against Raab. The servers collapsed during ticket sales.
Ex-professional boxer Regina Halmich doesn’t want her fight against entertainer Stefan Raab to be misunderstood as a serious sporting event. “It’s important to me that you see the event for exactly what it is: it’s entertainment. There’s no real boxing art required here,” the Karlsruhe native told broadcaster sport1 about the event announced for September 14th in Düsseldorf.
“People want to be entertained – and you can see that in the feedback,” says Halmich. “Of course there is always the occasional person who complains: ‘Why do we have to do this now?’ But the counter-argument is that 15,000 tickets are gone within two hours. Some of the servers have collapsed.” According to the operator, the event in a large multifunctional hall in Düsseldorf (PSD Bank Dome) is now sold out.
Halmich: People crave entertainment
According to Halmich, this shows: “People are really longing for entertainment. And I think that’s also because we live in very difficult times. Things range from bad economic conditions to wars. Life is no longer like that light.”
At the beginning of the week it became known that Raab (57) wanted to compete in an exhibition fight against Halmich (47) for the third time. “When the request came, I was blown away. I simply didn’t expect that,” said the athlete in the sport1 interview. Raab had already taken a beating in 2001 and 2007 and lost the fight. In the first fight his opponent broke his nose.
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Source: Stern
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