BBC Sport - Mayweather-Pacquiao fight tickets sell out in minutes

Only 1000 tickets were made available to the public. The other 15, 500 for sponsors, promoters, celebs, money men, well connected. Prepare to see Paris Hilton, Brad Pitt, Will Smith rolled out for this one.

It should have been the other way round. 15,500 to public and 1000 to sponsors.

I heard MGM kept about 5,000 tickets for themselves. Another agency bought a block of 3,000 to resell, and employees received about 1,000 between all of them. That means there were less than 5,000 tickets available for sale, considering the arena only holds 16,000 people.

I guess that's why it sold out so quickly.