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when do tickets go on sale for May 2nd?

Not sure. All I've heard are the "cheap seats" will allegedly be $1k.

ReggieDiggs wrote:Not sure. All I've heard are the "cheap seats" will allegedly be $1k.

Even more when you are going to have to buy from a second hand seller.
This fight will sell out in minutes.
Unless you are very wealthy you will be watching on tv.

tiny_acres wrote:

ReggieDiggs wrote:Not sure. All I've heard are the "cheap seats" will allegedly be $1k.

Even more when you are going to have to buy from a second hand seller.
This fight will sell out in minutes.
Unless you are very wealthy you will be watching on tv.

lol true. You're gonna need to hack the online ticketseller to get one of those 1k seats probably.

Supposedly the MGM sold out their rooms 30mins after the fight got announced. Other hotels on the strip have been tripling or more there prices.

i thought the talk was $1K for shite seats in the second market.

on first issue i'm sure they won't start at $1K for the rafters.

flights have just become a nightmare, we'll for direct flights at least. I managed to use air miles but it means I'm going to be there for 10 days.

The hotels are hilarious. I've just booked 1st -3rd because even shite hotels want Over 100 quid for those 2 nights. outside of the 1st thru 3rd may hotels are dirt cheap like usual.

i'll book other 8 nights over the next couple days, and hopefully do better than the flamingo.

Also MGM is not sold out of rooms, 'twas a computer glitch apparently.

MGM is on the south end of the tram. The last destination. The Monorail starts from the Hotel next to the convention center.

You could stay at Bally's, Flamingo's take the Monorail to MGM. A couple of other Hotels too on the Tram. Forgot the names

USA Today reported that the fight already sold out in just 15 minutes.

I read in the L.A. Times that ringside seats were priced at $5,000 but that seems very cheap to me.
Haven't there been plenty of big fights where ringside went for far more?

Why didn't they erect a stadium for this one? Shades of the 80s.
Didn't Arum claim last year (or was it in 2013) that he was going to build a temporary stadium for the fight, but it wouldn't be ready for months or at least until Mayweather was released from jail?

I know, 5 years ago it seemed everyone new the MGM wouldn't b big enough. This should be at a bigger venue, and not just so I can get my grubby hands on a ticket.

Boxing Scene posted a story about ringside seats being sold on secondary ticket sellers for as high as $64k. Average ticket price is $10k. Apparently Floyd & Manny fights go for an average of $1.6k with Floyd vs Saul being about double the regular average. Low price is $4k.

its just a match of pure greed prices are shameful

One hint of good news today I saw cheapest seats may only be $1K

;;-)

ReggieDiggs wrote:Boxing Scene posted a story about ringside seats being sold on secondary ticket sellers for as high as $64k. Average ticket price is $10k. Apparently Floyd & Manny fights go for an average of $1.6k with Floyd vs Saul being about double the regular average. Low price is $4k.

..was gonna bring my whole family, now the mother-in-law will have to stay at home...

Anyone know WHERE the tickets will go onsale??

95gerog wrote:Anyone know WHERE the tickets will go onsale??

you have to go up to the ticket window at the MGM and buy them in person for this one.
they will sell out very quickly so i wouldn't bother.

Supposedly MGM is reconsidering selling the ringside tickets for $5,000 and will instead raise it to $10,000. Scalpers are already offering $100,000 for the ducats so why not bump it up.
Reportedly, about 8,000 tickets are being set aside for the usual Las Vegas high-rollers, which means only 8,000 will be available for the general public. That should cause a mega-demand and shoot those prices up too.
It will limit the number of Filipino Pacquiao fanatics inside the MGM on fight night, perhaps evening out the home-court advantage.

SenorPipino wrote:Supposedly MGM is reconsidering selling the ringside tickets for $5,000 and will instead raise it to $10,000. Scalpers are already offering $100,000 for the ducats so why not bump it up.
Reportedly, about 8,000 tickets are being set aside for the usual Las Vegas high-rollers, which means only 8,000 will be available for the general public. That should cause a mega-demand and shoot those prices up too.
It will limit the number of Filipino Pacquiao fanatics inside the MGM on fight night, perhaps evening out the home-court advantage.

This is better news than I've been hearing up til now. Before I was hearing all the good tickets were gonna end up being given to the promoters & the VIPs at MGM & unless you were Mario Lopez or Rosie Perez you ain't getting tickets as a boxing fan unless its the cheap seats (which in this case ain't so cheap, but w/e).

Supposedly, even the celebrities will have to cough up the big bucks for tickets unless they're willing to take a novel approach.

If the celebs wear logo-emblazoned gear to the bout, promoting products (just like boxers do on their trunks) then the companies will pick up the cost of the tickets.
Otherwise, even the A-listers will have to reach deep to buy tickets.

Might be the trend of the future at big fights and events. Celebrities will need to become living, breathing billboards to score freebies.

I wanna see easy jet but all the ringside seats, so all the stars are sitting there looking like Lloyd Christmas in the orange tux!

This is why boxing sucks. This fight should have been in Dallas, at a stadium that can hold 100,000 people. The rich assholes who dominate the country can have their suites and "necessary" luxuries, and the regular fan would be able to attend the event.

BAD INTENTIONS wrote:This is why boxing sucks. This fight should have been in Dallas, at a stadium that can hold 100,000 people. The rich assholes who dominate the country can have their suites and "necessary" luxuries, and the regular fan would be able to attend the event.

Sounds like a wee bit of jealousy targeted at the 1%
Work hard (or harder) and maybe someday you can have all the toys you want and won't have to castigate those who are successful.

BAD INTENTIONS wrote:This is why boxing sucks. This fight should have been in Dallas, at a stadium that can hold 100,000 people. The rich assholes who dominate the country can have their suites and "necessary" luxuries, and the regular fan would be able to attend the event.

I live in Texas and have been to that museum Jerry Jones calls a stadium.
It would be no different than watching it on ppv if you were there.
The reasonably priced seats or his standing room only platform
When in those sections you can only watch it on the Jerry-Tron.

And standing room only would probably be 2-300 bucks after scalpers get their
hands on them.I would rather watch it at a bar or in my living room.

SenorPipino wrote:

BAD INTENTIONS wrote:This is why boxing sucks. This fight should have been in Dallas, at a stadium that can hold 100,000 people. The rich assholes who dominate the country can have their suites and "necessary" luxuries, and the regular fan would be able to attend the event.

Sounds like a wee bit of jealousy targeted at the 1%
Work hard (or harder) and maybe someday you can have all the toys you want and won't have to castigate those who are successful.

Wait a minute ... is this guy for real? I hope the "Senor" part of your name indicates that you are somehow new to this country. Because if you grew up in the United States of America and that is your conclusion about the rich and becoming rich you are the dumbest motherfucker I've ever interacted with.

Work harder to get rich ...?
The people in those suites are successful ...?

And jealousy? Don't define me by your lousy standards in life. I have no desire to be among the %1.

BAD INTENTIONS wrote: if you grew up in the United States of America and that is your conclusion about the rich and becoming rich you are the dumbest motherfucker I've ever interacted with.

Work harder to get rich ...?
The people in those suites are successful ...?

And jealousy? Don't define me by your lousy standards in life. I have no desire to be among the %1.

you sound like a world class loser, but no doubt you hear that daily.
there are many places you could go that are run by people like you, but their citizens are so desperate
to escape they have to shoot people in the back in an effort to convince people not to defect.
why sit there and stew your whole life, preoccupied with what others have achieved, as if loserdom
is something to be proud of? i suspect the senor assignation would imply that he actually has seen
first hand the difference between here and other places, if it meant anything at all. this is where my
giant catapult solution comes into play. so many domestic america haters want to lecture everybody
about how great and noble the world is and how evil this country is, yet they have never actually been
anywhere and don't actually know anything and have never done or accomplished anything. time
to just start flinging people across the oceans and setting them free from this horrible country.
maybe you could go join isis and fight for justice in the new caliphate?

sucracristo wrote:

BAD INTENTIONS wrote: if you grew up in the United States of America and that is your conclusion about the rich and becoming rich you are the dumbest motherfucker I've ever interacted with.

Work harder to get rich ...?
The people in those suites are successful ...?

And jealousy? Don't define me by your lousy standards in life. I have no desire to be among the %1.

you sound like a world class loser, but no doubt you hear that daily.
there are many places you could go that are run by people like you, but their citizens are so desperate
to escape they have to shoot people in the back in an effort to convince people not to defect.
why sit there and stew your whole life, preoccupied with what others have achieved, as if loserdom
is something to be proud of? i suspect the senor assignation would imply that he actually has seen
first hand the difference between here and other places, if it meant anything at all. this is where my
giant catapult solution comes into play. so many domestic america haters want to lecture everybody
about how great and noble the world is and how evil this country is, yet they have never actually been
anywhere and don't actually know anything and have never done or accomplished anything. time
to just start flinging people across the oceans and setting them free from this horrible country.
maybe you could go join isis and fight for justice in the new caliphate?

First of all, unlike you and the rest of the savages worldwide, I've realized that violence/war is foolish. So your solution of "fighting for justice" is as stupid as "fighting for freedom". It really shows how the stupid mind works when it automatically believes that any dissenting voice wants to make itself heard through violence. If there were a country "full of people like me" who detest violence, we wouldn't spend billions developing weapons of war. But we would invest millions in finding ways to protect yourself without using lethal force, so there wouldn't be any "shooting in the back".

You continue to attack me because I am uncomfortable with the level of control the wealthy have in America. Are you happy that politicians do more for corporations than the regular citizen? How are you content knowing that America fucked up almost every county that uses "senor" through overt/covert illegal operations?

You talk tough while the country you're in fucks up other people's lives. You defend the rich like they are somehow a benefit to your life.
Bottom line, you are a coward who stands behind a bully country. You somehow constructed morals out of your fornicate everyone else mentality. A true sociopath, who makes sense out of savage inequality. So there's no need to argue with me because I can't begin to rationalize the sociopathic mind.