A UTV report for Good Evening Ulster on the scramble for
tickets for Barry McGuigan's next world title fight when they went on sale in
December 1985. This was the second defence of the title for McGuigan, the boxer
from Clones in Co Monaghan who was based in Northern Ireland. Having made his
first defence of the WBA Featherweight title in Belfast, he was now preparing
to fight Fernando Sosa of Argentina in Dublin.
6,000
tickets were available, and 3,000 of those were sold in Northern Ireland,
resulting in large queues for northern fight fans to guarantee a place by the
ring. One vendor is interviewed detailing how they were trying to combat
tickets being bought for the lucrative black market. In the event, Sosa
withdrew with a broken finger and Danilo Cabrero of the Dominican Republic was
selected as the new opponent, with McGuigan victorious.