I was expecting it to be higher myself tbh, the build up (right up to the refs words) will probably be better than the fight
Great bit of boxing on this weekend alright. Terence Crawford also fights. Great bill as well on boxnation from liverpool with Derry mathews and liam smith on the card.
Provo Matt should be a absolute war, can't wait for that. Crawford looked unreal last year, he looks the real deal
In the grand scheme of things, isn't it ridiculous that Mayweather-Pacman is being held in a tiny venue that only seats 16,500. It's still going to pull in $72M in ticket sales, which is insane, but if it was really for the fans it would be in a stadium somewhere with 80,000 seats and an incredible atmosphere.
Heard it was a brilliant fight. Vegas though. Fight capital of the world. Wasn't GGG/Murray in Monte Carlo a couple of months in a venue that only held 800/900?
I know but surely with all the cash generated from fights and everything else associated with Vegas, you'd think they'd have a stadium there... even for concerts, a superbowl, UFC or whatever.. it seems bizarre they hold marquee events like that in a hotel which such small numbers...
Ye, I'd agree with you. It is strange. I'd love to go to Vegas for a big fight. Experience fight week and the lot.
I was in Vegas in September 2008 the week leading up to a Mayweather fight, unfortunately we flew out on the Friday evening but the Weds and Thursday were brilliant. Some buzz about the place. Next week will be crazy over there, biggest fight in years. Tickets will all be taken by the hotels for their high rollers.
I heard or read somewhere this week that the tickets still have not gone on sale yet which for a Vegas fight is unheard of and it is less than two weeks away. The reason is obviously money and who gets the tickets an for what prices, even celebs are told that they will have to pay top money for their tickets and no one at all gets any freebies. Touts dont even have them yet and a few people have said that they would pay up to 25k for a ticket.
According to reports they wont be going on general sale. The promoter couldn't even give a answer to why thats the case
I was in Vegas for the Manny vs Cotto fight and you wouldn't even know it was on. But I'm sure Mayweather in Vegas is a different ball game
There so much hype around this fight. The hype won't live up to the hype 12 rounds of defense from Mayweather will win the fight. There's going to be some angry rants on FB and twitter come 6am 3rd May. That's my prediction.
Not sure, there's a couple Showtime have one called 'inside' and HBO put out a long one called At Last. HBO are brilliant at them. Fun fact of the day, Liev Schreiber from Ray Donovan does the voice over for HBOs boxing docs
Yeah it's the same one Shay.Freddie roach is really slowing up,horrible to see. The tickets still haven't gone on sale.
They're both on back to back tonight SS1 from 10:20 Yeah, horrible disease. Amazing how long he has it