Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Manny Pacquiao: All details about the "fight of the century" on May 2 in Las Vegas

Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao will meet on May 2, in "MGM Grand Garden Arena" - Las Vegas, in what was called "Fight of the century".

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Age: 38 years
Born on February 24, 1977
Height: 1.73 m
Weight: 67 kg
Lengthening 183 cm
Career matches: 47
Wins: 47
Wins by KO: 26
Matches lost: 0
Draws: 0
Nickname: "Money"
Career Innings Played: 363
Money earned from box: $ 420 million

Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao

Age: 36 years
Born on December 17, 1978
Height: 1.69 m
Weight: 67 kg
Lengthening: 170 cm
Career matches: 64
Wins: 57
Wins by KO: 38
Matches lost: 5
Draws: 2
Nickname: "Pac-Man"
Career Innings Played: 407
Money earned from box: 340 million dollars

Approximately 400 million dollars will generate "Fight of the century" Mayweather and Pacquiao from Las Vegas.
WBC and WBA belts Mayweather holds at welterweight, while Pacquiao is the WBO belt.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. - champion in five divisions, where he won eight world titles. The champion in three different weight classes.
Pacquiao will wear "the most expensive sort" in sporting history - Ads from the pants will make $ 2.25 million.
Were made about 18,000 accreditation requests from journalists, given that capacity arena where the match will be played is 16,800 seats.
"MGM Grand Garden Arena" - Las Vegas. It was inaugurated on December 18, 1993. Owner - MGM Resorts International.
Just one minute after putting on sale were sold 16,500 tickets for the match - an absolute record.
Ticket sales brought 74 million dollars to the organizers, a record for a boxing match, AFP informs.
Actor Mark Wahlberg and singer P.Diddy (no alias Sean Combs) made a $ 250,000 bet on this match. Wahlberg has relied on Tagalog, while Diddy American.
Belt that the winner will receive is unique and handmade. It was made by the World Boxing Council (WBC) and the belt are etched faces of two athletes. Contains diamonds and gold worth over a million dollars.
Mayweather will receive 60% of revenues and 40% Pacquiao, regardless of the outcome of the game on May 2.
Mayweather announced that Pacquiao will be the penultimate fight of his career, the last match will take place in September. "I no longer enjoy as I did once," said the American. Athlete has announced the withdrawal time twice (in 2007 and in 2008), but each time returned to the ring. Last time, after a long break of 21 months.
Floyd Mayweather's last defeat Jr. was recorded in 1996 at the Olympic Games in Atlanta. Bulgarian Serafim Todorov was the one who defeated the US in the semifinals.

Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao tickets FINALLY go on sale !!!

Tickets for the fight in Las Vegas go on sale on Thursday night.

Around 1000 tickets will be on sale priced between $1,500 and 7,500 each .

The MGM Grand has a capacity of 16,500 but most of the tickets will be split between Mayweather and Pacquiao's camps and the TV broadcasters .

Up to 50,000 tickets for closed-circuit viewing will also be on sale .

Manny Pacquiao.

The desert storm in a box office which some thought might pull the plug on the richest fight of all time has blown over.

Those priceless tickets will be on sale at 8pm on Thursday after weeks of wrangling and accusations between Mayweather Promotions and Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum.

This thorny matter was settled at a meeting between Arum, Mayweather’s advisor Al Haymon and CBS television mogul Les Moonves who brokered the deal for the fight itself.

The issues over the number of tickets, credentials and hotel rooms to be made available to each camp were all resolved.

Since this required a separate contract with the MGM there was speculation that the fight might be in jeopardy.

In reality May 2 in the Grand Garden Arena was always going to take place.

Even Arum, angered as he was by delays he blamed on the Mayweather side for making the tickets release far later than for any big fight ever, had said: ‘There’s too much at stake for the plug to be pulled.

Like half-billion dollars which it is now expected to generate, with Mayweather and Pacquiao set to bank at least $180million and $120m respectively,

Arum adds: ‘All the matters have been agreed and the contract is being drawn up.’

The vast majority of the 16,500 tickets were always destined to be parcelled up between the two promoters, the two cable networks sharing the pay-per-view broadcast and the MGM hotel group for their clients and high rollers.

Only a token 1000 seats are going on public sale, at between $1,500 (£1,000) and $7,500 (£5,000) each.

But none for the super-ringside tickets costing $10,000 (£6,600). There are reports that those seats will exchanged hands on ‘the alternative market’ for upwards of $200,000 (£133,000)

As many as 50,000 tickets will be available to watch the fight at various MGM properties via closed-circuit television. Priced at $150 (£100), they will be on sale at 11pm on Thursday.

Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao Full Streaming Live Fight 2015

The biggest fight in boxing history has sold out within a minute of going on sale with tickets for Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on May 2 being snapped up on Thursday evening.

Just minutes after 8pm UK time (12 noon in Las Vegas), tickets for the richest bout in history began appearing on the secondary market with one ticket going for a cool $128,705 (£85,508) on StubHub.

After weeks of wrangling and accusations between Mayweather Promotions and Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum, a batch of between 500 and 1,000 tickets were made available to boxing fans for the mega-fight in May.  

Between 500 and 1000 tickets were released priced between $1,500 (£996) and $7,500 (£4,982) each

The MGM Grand has a capacity of 16,500 but most of the tickets will be split between Mayweather and Pacquiao's camps and the TV broadcasters

Up to 50,000 tickets for closed-circuit viewing were also sold on Thursday

One ticket was being sold on StubHub for $128,705 (£85,508)

Floyd Mayweather Vs Manny Pacquiao official fight

Almost six years after the first negotiations, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao have reached an agreement for "Space Jam". The two signed the contract  this morning and hoping match will be held on May 2 at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas.
 
Several sites in the US this days announced an agreement between the two parties, but just this morning came the official confirmations. Mayweather has published on its official account on the website only shots.com last page of the signed contract .

"What planet expect arrived. Mayweather vs. Pacquiao fight will take place on 2 May 2015, the agreement was initialed. I promised my fans I'll do that and it was so. We will make history on May 2. Do not miss it! "Was the American message . Pacquiao and he later posted a message on Facebook: "The wait is over. Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao live fight is here! Fighting around the world expect that the live fight will be played on May 2 at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas. "

Great game from the super class will seat up for grabs WBA, WBC and The Ring, Floyd Mayweather owned and Manny Pacquiao's WBO belt.

They are the best in the world

The top "pound for pound" by The Ring, which classifies all boxers, regardless of category, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquaio ranked 1 or 3. Between them lies instead Wladimir Klitschko, Ukrainian heavyweight holding belts IBF, WBO and WBA.

$ 3,000 could be the average price of a ticket to "Space Jam"

Negotiations ended.

The first negotiations between the two fell in 2010 due to a clause urged the US. They ought to be subject to doping tests, but refused to accept Filipino conditions. In 2012, the American was directly called by Pac-Man to propose the game, but gave up the idea after Filipino refused to accept a lower percentage of grant.

Talks resumed late last year and boxers met face to face for the first time during a match NBA Miami Heat - Milwaukee Bucks on January 27. Mayweather and Pacquiao then discussed at the hotel and after several rounds of negotiations, initialed documents this morning.