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Mayweather v Pacquiao

Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 10:18 pm
by DRuM
Confirmed MGM Vegas May 2nd.

Around 1,000 tickets have been put on sale priced between $1,500 and $7,500 each

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/boxing ... z3Y4yAcRnk


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Mayweather and Pacquiao set to bank at least $180 million and $120 million dollars respectively

I know there's always been big bucks in boxing, but that is just fucking nuts. :eek:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/boxing ... Vegas.html

Re: Mayweather v Pacquiao

Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 10:34 pm
by syp0s
Don't know if this is mentioned in the article, but apparently, front row seats are going for £150,000, and row six, people are offering £15,000.

It's crazy money, but the funny thing is that it's probably one of the only boxing matches that it's worth spending the money on (comparatively). Back in the day, Tyson tickets would resell for thousands, but then he'd knock them out in the first round and people would be livid. At least with this fight it's almost certainly going to go 12 rounds.

This'll be the first boxing PPV I've bought since Prince Naseem vs Barrera, which was like 2001.

Re: Mayweather v Pacquiao

Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 10:38 pm
by DRuM
Those front row and sixth row prices are crazy.

I remember watching some Naseem fights back in the day, really entertaining!

Re: Mayweather v Pacquiao

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 12:08 am
by LawL
Mayweather will jab to a decision victory.

Re: Mayweather v Pacquiao

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 12:11 am
by PhoeniX
Don't really follow boxing but I'll likely be watching this, sounds like it's going to be a pretty interesting fight.

Though hopefully there's a KO. Dancing around and winning by points is boring.

Re: Mayweather v Pacquiao

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 12:26 am
by scared?
I would totally destroy these midgets in a fight...

Re: Mayweather v Pacquiao

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 7:23 am
by Ryoki
Should have happened years ago when it would have been far more interesting amirite?

Re: Mayweather v Pacquiao

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 9:15 am
by LawL
Yep but Floyd was too scared back then.

Re: Mayweather v Pacquiao

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 10:05 am
by Ryoki
For some inexplicable reason i actually find boxing quite an interesting sport. Not that i actually watch it or anything, but when it catches my eye in say, a pub, i do tend to keep watching.

Perhaps because boxing is such a nice analogy for human conflict in the greater sense of the word... it has offensive as well as defensive techniques and both are used in a strategic as well as a tactical sense. I often imagine a historical conflict between two powerful nation states as a boxing fight, it's quite revealing when you look at what happens over the course of the conflict and try to understand the rationale behind certain events (tiredness starts to become a factor, as does dogged determination to win) etc. For instance, when you look at the first world war i see Germany as the smaller, more technically gifted fighter who needs to get a knockout quickly if he expects to win, whereas the triple entente is maybe more like the giant slow lumbering fighter who can take a lot of punches and has time on his side.

Fascinating!

Re: Mayweather v Pacquiao

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 10:07 am
by Ryoki
LawL wrote:Yep but Floyd was too scared back then.
Yeah, understood as much. Shame really, when they were both in their prime it would have been a very interesting fight indeed. Now, not so much.

Re: Mayweather v Pacquiao

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 10:10 am
by feedback
Ryoki wrote:For some inexplicable reason i actually find boxing quite an interesting sport. Not that i actually watch it or anything, but when it catches my eye in say, a pub, i do tend to keep watching.

Perhaps because boxing is such a nice analogy for human conflict in the greater sense of the word... it has offensive as well as defensive techniques and both are used in a strategic as well as a tactical sense. I often imagine a historical conflict between two powerful nation states as a boxing fight, it's quite revealing when you look at what happens over the course of the conflict and try to understand the rationale behind certain events (tiredness starts to become a factor, as does dogged determination to win) etc. For instance, when you look at the first world war i see Germany as the smaller, more technically gifted fighter who needs to get a knockout quickly if he expects to win, whereas the triple entente is maybe more like the giant slow lumbering fighter who can take a lot of punches and has time on his side.

Fascinating!
A smaller more technical fighter needs to make the fight go as long as possible, so the heavier opponent with less technique will no longer have strength on his side and they'll be easy pickings.

Re: Mayweather v Pacquiao

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 10:15 am
by Ryoki
Hmm, that makes sense i guess. Well shit there goes my entire theory then. :(

Re: Mayweather v Pacquiao

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 10:57 am
by Eraser
What about a heavy opponent with lots of technique eh? eh? Yeah, he'd be a fuckin Super Sayan right there.

Re: Mayweather v Pacquiao

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 3:25 pm
by feedback
I'd hold onto that idea if I were you, that is gold in the right hands.

Re: Mayweather v Pacquiao

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 3:37 pm
by Κracus
I used to love watching fighting matches but I can't do it anymore. It turns out I have some weird aversion to bones being broken. Not mine either, I've broken a few bones and it didn't bother me but when I see other people break bones I break out in a cold sweat and lose consciousness.

I was watching an MMA match, I forget who was fighting but one guy broke his arm while fighting and still won. I didn't know his arm was broken until they started showing the replays after the fight was won and blacked out on the spot.

I didn't know what caused it then and months later I was watching some other mma fight and the dude that won broke his little toe AFTER the fight was finished cause of some broken matt and I nearly passed out then too but managed to fight it off.

Weird fucking shit, even when I broke my hand I went to the hospital to get the cast removed and while there some dude with a broken leg came in the waiting room and was talking about how it broke to someone and I instantly got nauseous and felt like blacking out.

Re: Mayweather v Pacquiao

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 3:54 pm
by shaft
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Re: Mayweather v Pacquiao

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 4:08 pm
by Κracus
Haha gifs load too slow i can block them before they load.

Re: Mayweather v Pacquiao

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 5:22 pm
by lars63
This is a fight I would just love to see

Re: Mayweather v Pacquiao

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 9:08 pm
by shaft
Κracus wrote:i can block them before they load.
no you cant

Re: Mayweather v Pacquiao

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 12:35 am
by Captain
Κracus wrote:I used to love watching fighting matches but I can't do it anymore. It turns out I have some weird aversion to bones being broken. Not mine either, I've broken a few bones and it didn't bother me but when I see other people break bones I break out in a cold sweat and lose consciousness.

I was watching an MMA match, I forget who was fighting but one guy broke his arm while fighting and still won. I didn't know his arm was broken until they started showing the replays after the fight was won and blacked out on the spot.

I didn't know what caused it then and months later I was watching some other mma fight and the dude that won broke his little toe AFTER the fight was finished cause of some broken matt and I nearly passed out then too but managed to fight it off.

Weird fucking shit, even when I broke my hand I went to the hospital to get the cast removed and while there some dude with a broken leg came in the waiting room and was talking about how it broke to someone and I instantly got nauseous and felt like blacking out.
edit: >:(

Re: Mayweather v Pacquiao

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 11:29 am
by Κracus
lulz. I lied. Hope you enjoyed browsing through fucked up pics of peoples shit being broken.

Re: Mayweather v Pacquiao

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 11:39 am
by Eraser
Thank god we have rules against people posting pictures of nude breasts.

Re: Mayweather v Pacquiao

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 12:12 pm
by LawL
Κracus wrote:lulz. I lied.
What else is new.

Re: Mayweather v Pacquiao

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 1:36 pm
by xer0s
Κracus wrote:lulz. I lied.
No shit. You posted...

Re: Mayweather v Pacquiao

Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2015 2:21 pm
by Scourge
Κracus wrote:lulz. I lied. Hope you enjoyed browsing through fucked up pics of peoples shit being broken.
Didn't bother me in the least. You need some Midol to get you through the thread?