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[Official] Mayweather vs Pacquiao | May 2nd (TOMORROW)

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Tickets getting cheaper guys; we should all go!

http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/i...ng-fall-floyd-mayweather-manny-pacquiao-fight


The roughly 500 tickets released to the public sold out within minutes last week, but the resale market -- minus an initial blip after tickets were committed to the promoters, sponsors and high rollers -- has started to fall.

More than 30 tickets sold early Friday on StubHub, as of 9:45 a.m. ET, for an average price of $3,899. That's compared to 156 tickets that sold for an average of about $800 more on Thursday ($4,693). Perhaps the most troubling sign for those selling tickets is that 10 tickets sold for less than the investment in the ticket, after fees.

One broker on Friday was offering to sell a block of 13 seats, with a $5,000 ticket value, for $5,100 each.

More than 1,000 tickets are currently on the online resale market, and an untold number of seats are available on the ground in Las Vegas.
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KT
 
Maidana gave Mayweather a lot of problems in their first fight. I think Pac is faster, stronger than Maidana and comes at you from all angles. I think Pac wins.
 
Its funny how they reported the rooms were all sold out when the fight was announced. Yet every single time I checked, they had rooms available.
 
Room prices plummeted today. Encore may be that much, but most places are cheaper than a regular summer weekend right now. MGM Grand was $1,700 a few weeks ago and is around $375 now.
 
AznAnarchy99 said:
That's what I saw too. The cheaper room is 350 sq ft. That's super small but damn the prices did plummet on some of these places.
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They are back up now. I got a Room at Mirage for $229 per night and got 2 free tickets to the closed circuit viewing at the casino included. The cheapest you can buy those tickets for just to watch the fight now is $300 through Mirage. Hell of a deal. Through mlife.com Mirage was $148 per night this morning.
 
GagHalfrunt said:
Especially if the outcome is really close and controversial. Then it will generate $250 million or more for a rematch. But that's pretty unlikely. Mayweather ducked Manny long enough for Manny's fighting style to catch up with him. He's taken a lot more punishment than Mayweather and it shows. I don't think he has the intensity or hand speed to get through Floyd's defense. So it will be, as mentioned above, another "typical Lameweather boring ass 12 round decision". And that's probably for the best. If it's a one-sided snoozefest at least we'll be spared the hype of doing this again. Too bad Mayweather is such a pussy, it would have been a good fight 7 years ago.
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Manny was offered 2 different contracts in the past 5 years, both of which he turned down. The 1st was due to the Olympic style testing Mayweather insisted on. Pac had maybe the lamest excuse ever why he wouldn't agree to it. Look it up if you don't know what he said. Maybe it was an odd demand to make, sure. But the next 3 people who fought Floyd all agreed to it, one being a dude who was popped for PED's a number of years ago.

2nd time it was 70/30 split with no PPV revenue for Pac. Manny said that was totally unfair and demanded an even split of everything. Since then he's gone on to fight 5 times probably not making total what he would have made for that 1 fight had he signed the contract.

People saying Floyd ducking him is a lot of hearsay and speculation. Now about the 2 contracts? Pac absolutely turned them both down. There hasn't been a day in the pasty 6 years where if thre fight had happened Mayweather wouldn't have been favored to win on the betting lines. But he's scared? lol
 
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I hope Pacquiao knocks Mayweather the fuck out, nobody should get out of boxing with a perfect record, not even the greats could do that, this guy has been avoiding fights his whole career.

I love how Pacquiao said "Thank you" to his face at the weigh in, this guy cant wait to get to work on Mayweathers's face, a good old remodeling is in order.
 
Artorias said:
I hope Pacquiao knocks Mayweather the fuck out, nobody should get out of boxing with a perfect record, not even the greats could do that, this guy has been avoiding fights his whole career.

I love how Pacquiao said "Thank you" to his face at the weigh in, this guy cant wait to get to work on Mayweathers's face, a good old remodeling is in order.
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Who exactly has Floyd avoided? When he fought Hatton, Hatton was considered the #2 guy in the world and was suppose to be the dude to end his streak. He fought Cotto, he fought DLH, Mosley, Marquez, Castillo x2. Baldomir, Judah, Gatti and Corrales. People say he ducked DLJ & Mosley and waited until they were older and past their prime. But both refused fights with him ages before they ended up fighting him. I can't think of many dudes he ducked. The majority of his opponents were belt holders or top level contenders.

DLH
Hatton
Marquez
Mosley

in that order, probably 4 of the toughest fights he could have had. Who's the last chump he fought? I'll wait for your answer.
 
QueBert said:
Manny was offered 2 different contracts in the past 5 years, both of which he turned down. The 1st was due to the Olympic style testing Mayweather insisted on. Pac had maybe the lamest excuse ever why he wouldn't agree to it. Look it up if you don't know what he said. Maybe it was an odd demand to make, sure. But the next 3 people who fought Floyd all agreed to it, one being a dude who was popped for PED's a number of years ago.

2nd time it was 70/30 split with no PPV revenue for Pac. Manny said that was totally unfair and demanded an even split of everything. Since then he's gone on to fight 5 times probably not making total what he would have made for that 1 fight had he signed the contract.

People saying Floyd ducking him is a lot of hearsay and speculation. Now about the 2 contracts? Pac absolutely turned them both down. There hasn't been a day in the pasty 6 years where if thre fight had happened Mayweather wouldn't have been favored to win on the betting lines. But he's scared? lol
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Such a long-winded response with such a limited understanding is usually reserved for, well, ATOT. You honestly believe those contracts were honest attempts to make a fight? They were clearly attempts to offer contracts that Floyd Pussyweather knew Manny wouldn't accept and pretty much every person with an understanding of the situation knew it instantly. It fooled NOBODY!! Well, okay, it fooled you, but it fooled nobody with a clue. Every person in boxing has been laughing at Mayweather about those "contracts" from the moment they hit the table.
 
GagHalfrunt said:
Such a long-winded response with such a limited understanding is usually reserved for, well, ATOT. You honestly believe those contracts were honest attempts to make a fight? They were clearly attempts to offer contracts that Floyd Pussyweather knew Manny wouldn't accept and pretty much every person with an understanding of the situation knew it instantly. It fooled NOBODY!! Well, okay, it fooled you, but it fooled nobody with a clue. Every person in boxing has been laughing at Mayweather about those "contracts" from the moment they hit the table.
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Kind of ironic because literally a week after Manny turned down the 1st contract offered Mosley agreed to the terms, very happily I might add. As for the 2nd Manny was stupid to not accept it, again since that offer he hasn't made total what that 1 fight would have brought him. Manny was the idiot back then for believing he deserved 50/50 + equal PPV split. The next fight for both, Floyd got I think it was $40 million, Pac got I believe $9. Yet he felt he deserved equal money? lol. And seeing how 4 other top level boxers agreed to the same terms as the 1st offered to Manny, I'd say again, Manny COULD have accept it. But he chose to spout off about how Olympic style testing would make him uber weak.

That, is a perfect example of an excuse. Not saying he was ducking Mayweather, but a response like that doesn't instill confidence in believing a fighter wants a fight.

I believe both were honest attempts, simply because other boxers since signed basically the same shit. Pac played a primadonna and made his own demands. Fast forward 5 years, he's since had a brutal KO, a loss, and a few lack luster wins. And now all of a sudden he's willing to sign a 60/40 when before anything less than 50/50 was absolutely off the table. He's also agreed to the same testing which before would have rendered him weak and unable to fight. Weird? The only thing that's certain was there were contracts which one party declined, we'll never know what would have happened if Pac had signed either now would we?
 
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QueBert said:
Who exactly has Floyd avoided? When he fought Hatton, Hatton was considered the #2 guy in the world and was suppose to be the dude to end his streak. He fought Cotto, he fought DLH, Mosley, Marquez, Castillo x2. Baldomir, Judah, Gatti and Corrales. People say he ducked DLJ & Mosley and waited until they were older and past their prime. But both refused fights with him ages before they ended up fighting him. I can't think of many dudes he ducked. The majority of his opponents were belt holders or top level contenders.

DLH
Hatton
Marquez
Mosley

in that order, probably 4 of the toughest fights he could have had. Who's the last chump he fought? I'll wait for your answer.
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The various women he beat the shit out of?

KT
 
I hate how people can choose who they want to fight in boxing. It's so corrupt that I gave up on watching years ago.

Please threadcrap elsewhere. This thread is about one particular fight. If you have no interest in it, stay out of the thread.
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