From Iole's mailbag; The venue for the highly anticipated March 13 bout between unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. and pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao will likely be decided by Thursday, Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum said Tuesday. Arum said the fight, which is expected to break existing boxing revenue and pay-per-view records, will either be at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Cowboys Stadium in Dallas or the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. Arum said neither fighter has signed a contract, though both men have agreed to the major deal points. Arum said he hasnt seen the proposal from officials in Georgia, though he has spoken with Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin. He was planning to fly from Los Angeles to Cleveland on Tuesday and then drive to Youngstown, Ohio, where he is promoting a fight Saturday involving middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik. Well pick the best proposal and go from there, Arum said. The MGM Grand has to be considered the favorite to land the fight, though Arum said Cowboys owner Jerry Jones wont give up. He wants this fight there badly. And Arum said that he understands Atlanta officials are going to go hard after the fight and that their bid includes heavy support from Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue. Arum said though Pacquiao has agreed to all major points in the deal, there will be some additional points hell need to agree to before a contract is ready to be signed. He said none of them were major. The same is true of Mayweather, who is being promoted in this fight by Golden Boy Promotions.
That will continue until the two men enter the ring. Expect accusations of ducking from both sides pretty much every day.
Are they being serious? They need to put this fight in a stadium and make a proper spectacle of it. Las Vegas is one of the main reasons boxing has died in the states, all it caters to is the high rollers and the rich and they don't even care about boxing that much they are just there for the tables. Thats how you can see empty seats even at the biggest fights. Boxing needs to be taken it back to the people, take it to Cowboys Stadium and let 100,000 people see the fight, get the media interested, this fight could actually become a mega fight, not just another Las Vegas "super" fight.
Las Vagas caters to the super stars which is all the average people give a **** about. If they can do it in Vegas and put a camera on Jeter, 50 cent, Kobe Bryant, Brad Pitt etc... it will do more for boxing than having 80K regular people in a stadium.
any of the under card been announced or roumerd? what a fight this will be, stadium or no stadium, werever its held is irrelivent tbh its going to be a record number of sales PPV
I'd like to see Khan vs Someone on the undercard, Bradley would be as good as any. Its not the money wont be there!
