Pac - May facts!

• 3 fight PPV telecast

• 2 fights will be shown on CBS free to lead up to the PPV tele cast

• PPV telecast will be - the main event, 1 Top Rank fight and 1 Mayweather promotions fight. All fights on and off the PPV yet to be finalised however some will be title fights. Apparently Top Rank is pushing Lomanchenko on the undercard

• joint commentary team between HBO and showtime.

• Jimmy Lennon jr will announce Floyd into the ring and buffer will announce Pac into the ring, each will read out a scorecard if it goes to the card, if the fight ends in KO the networks fight announcer will declare the winner

• No 24/7 or All Access this time around however each network will air a Documentaries on each of their fighters leading up to the fight

• Floyd will enter the ring last, Pac will enter first

• PPV in HD will possibly be 110USD in the USA

• A Bidding war has broken out for overseas viewership which includes ITV, boxnation and Sky and likely it will be PPV over here

• MGM sold all 5005 rooms within 15 minutes of the fight been official! Rooms across Vegas have gone up 5/6 times in price

• If Floyd wins the repeat of the fight will be shown on Showtime the week after, if Manny wins then the re-run will be on HBO

• WBC to create a special one off belt for the fight and will be presented to the winner

• Early odds have Mayweather a 2/5 Favourite while Pac is 3/1

• Ringside tickets will be potentially up to 20K and to be eligible to apply for ringside tickets you need to have at least 250,000K line of credit already with the MGM casino and even they are not guaranteed tickets, there will be no comps for celebrities. Tickets on the black market are already been scouted at 60k!

• Only at most a couple of hundred tickets will be made available to the public via normal channels

• the Gate of the fight alone is to make upwards of 40 million, double the last previous record

• Floyd to make upwards of 150million

• PPV is projected to make at least 3.2mil buys a million over the last record, but could go as high as 4!

• Gross Money made for the fight between Advertising, Gate and PPV could break 1 Billion USD

• Fight will have no immediate Rematch clause regardless of the result

• Full Random blood and urine testing agreed upon throughout the camp

• Will be a 1 city Press conference tour In LA on the 11th March the reason it wont be so large is because both fighters have started camp already. Also it will not be open to the public and even the Media have to apply for access. It will however be streamed online

• both will wear the normal 8oz gloves and either fighter can pick their own. Grant Gloves for Floyd and Reyes for Pac.

• Pacs whole camp will be in the Wildcard Gym in Los Angeles while Mayweathers will be in his normal Mayweather Gym in Las Vegas. Both Camps are already underway

• Floyd to get 60% of the revenue and Pac to get 40%

• 3 Welterweight belts on the line

• 147 Weight Welterweight limit, no rehydration clauses

• Name of the event to be simply called “Mayweather – Pacquiao”

• Sports already scheduled for May 2nd in the USA- Kentucky Derby, NFL Draft, Yankees play the Red Sox, NBA Playoffs and the NHL playoffs. May 2nd 2015 will potentially be the biggest sports day of all time In the USA

Fight build up timeline

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...f-the-floyd-mayweather-jr-manny-pacquiao-saga

 

No probs!!

I thought they were pretty interesting alright. Pretty wild numbers!