Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao is anticipated to draw
over $400 million in total revenue.
The megafight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao can
break every kind of boxing records; however the most recent numbers square
measure even larger than several had originally projected. Price tag sales
square measure expected to get near $74 million, which might set a live gate
record and dwarfing something the game has ever seen.
Top Rank chairman Bob Arum has told ESPN.com that the
revenue are generated from the sale of a bit over fifteen Thousand tickets.
Roughly one, 100 seats are sold-out for $10,000 each, and another a pair of,
500 tickets square measure going for $7,500 each. The most affordable tickets
are sold-out for $1,500 each, with 2,500 a lot of going for $2,500. The worth
of the smallest amount dearly-won tickets was raised from $1,000 every once the
demand for seats hyperbolic.
The demand for tickets has created the event not like the
other in sports. Solely some of tickets are created on the market for purchase
by the final public, and Arum says they’ll precede sale next week. It’ll be a
star-studded event with a number of Hollywood’s most known celebrities
attending. Whereas high-profile celebrities square measure sometimes given free
front row seats, that won’t be the case on might a pair of.
Mayweather can break his own gate record, that he assault
Sept. 14, 2003. His fight against Canelo Alvarez generated simply over $20
million, breaking the record of $18.4 million that he set in 2007 against honor
First State La vine. The gate revenue of the might a pair of fight can exceed
that of the combined gates for the highest four fights within the history of
Nevada boxing. Lennox Lewis vs. Evander Holyfield II presently ranks third with
$16.86 million, whereas the primary Mayweather vs. Marcos Maidana bout is
fourth at simply over $15 million.
None of Pacquiao’s fights in city have ever broken $15
million at the gate, setting a private high with a $14.38 million gate against
First State La vine on Dec. 6, 2008. His most up-to-date city bout ranks twenty
seventh all time, as he and Timothy Bradley actor $7.86 million in price tag
sales.
Mayweather vs. Pacquiao won’t simply set a boxing record,
however it'll blow any UFC fight out of the water. In keeping with ESPN’s Dan
Rafael, the highest fifteen UFC gates in Nevada have solely grossed $72
million, compared to the $74 million that the mega-fight is anticipated to
draw.
The fight’s combined total revenue may surpass $400 million
and will even approach nearly a billion greenbacks. Mayweather vs. Alvarez set
a record with $150 million in revenue.
