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Ready to rumble some great pics from CNN

Ready to Rumble: Mayweather & Pacquiao up the ante - CNN.com


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Manny fights back at Mayweathers Jabs



“Reckless fighter? That’s how people like me and love me, because they like an exciting fight,” Pacquiao said. “We call this boxing, (and) boxing is more punching. We talk about punching.”
Pacquiao (57-5-2, 38 KOs) has rarely skimped on excitement during his remarkable career as an eight-division champion, but the Filipino congressman realizes he is facing the greatest defensive fighter of their era. Mayweather (47-0, 26 KOs) has been nearly unhittable for most of his opponents during his perfect career.
But Pacquiao hopes Money realizes that the best way to get paid is to put on a fight worth seeing. After all, they’re counting on fans to pay a record $99.95 for the pay-per-view, a figure described by no less than Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum as “ostentatious consumerism” if a fan bought it to watch all by himself.
And if Pacquiao is trying a bit of psychological trickery, it isn’t subtle: He didn’t even try to hide the fact that a brawl would be his best chance to win.
“If he (does) that, that’s good for me,” Pacquiao said. “I like that. We’ll see. That’s what I want, and that’s definitely what the fans want — action.”
Unlike Mayweather, Pacquiao knows what it’s like to be knocked out and to get back up. Pacquiao lost both of his bouts in 2012 and ended his fourth fight with Juan Manuel Marquez face-down on the canvas in the sixth round.



Pacquiao fights back at Mayweather's jabs | Amarillo Globe-News

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Floyd ever his usual in eloquent self hits out at the haters and ends up looking more douchey than his target

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Still not tickets on sale ? really?

Don't expect to snag a $1,500 nosebleed ticket - or any other ticket - at the box office for the fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao.
Just two weeks before the bout, tickets for the most anticipated fight in recent times have yet to go on public sale, with the two camps and the MGM Grand locked in a standoff over allotments. When they are finally put on sale, only a few will be sold at the listed price.
The impasse has left fans in the dark, and ticket brokers perplexed.
"It's bizarre, normally there's a public sale 10 weeks before the fight," said Connor Gregoire, an analyst for Seatgeek.com. "To our knowledge no one has a printed ticket in their hands right now."
Mayweather's promoter, Leonard Ellerbe, said Tuesday (Wednesday NZ time) that tickets would go on sale this week for the May 2 fight, but MGM officials have been tight-lipped about their availability.
The hotel issued a statement Friday saying there would be a "limited number of tickets available for sale" and that it is working with promoters to finalize a date for their release.
The fight was always going to be a tough ticket, with announced prices of $1,500 to $7,500 ($1,950 to $9,750 NZD) in the 16,500-seat Grand Garden arena.
But those prices have already tripled in the resale market even before tickets are available, and the two camps and the MGM have been dickering over how many seats - and at what price level - each party gets.
Pacquiao's manager, Michael Koncz, blamed the Mayweather camp for holding up the ticket sales, saying they have refused to sign a term sheet negotiated months earlier that specified the allotments.
"It's a real mess right now," Koncz said. "I can only surmise the motivation is greed and an attempt to manipulate the tickets, otherwise why the holdup? I'm more than a little upset they're not for sale to the public."
Millions of dollars are at stake in the dispute, because after the MGM takes its share each camp gets a certain percentage of tickets and is able to resell them with ticket brokers for higher prices.
The estimated gate for the tickets if they are sold at retail prices is already a staggering $72 million (NZD$93 million), far surpassing the previous gate record of $20 million for Mayweather's 2013 fight with Canelo Alvarez.
Promoter Bob Arum said he has heard of people cancelling their reservations to Las Vegas because they're afraid they can't get tickets.
"This is not acceptable," said Arum, who promotes Pacquiao. "This is a worldwide event that the city of Las Vegas is involved in. It's one of the craziest things I've ever seen."


High-priced Floyd Mayweather Jr, Manny Pacquiao fight tickets still not on sale | Stuff.co.nz

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Essentially the same story with some pictures

"Don't expect to snag a £1,000 nosebleed ticket - or any other ticket - at the box office for the fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao.
Just two weeks before the bout, tickets for the most anticipated fight in recent times have yet to go on public sale, with the two camps and the MGM Grand locked in a stand-off over allotments.
When they are finally put on sale, only a few will be sold at the listed price. The impasse has left fans in the dark, and ticket brokers perplexed."


Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao go head-to-head in two weeks, but fans are still in the dark when it comes to ticket details | Daily Mail Online

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