Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao will fight May 2nd

[Senator Clay Davis]

5 years too late and probably at least $100 million lost by not doing it in 2009-10, but it's happening. $40 million gate expected, $250 million in PPV revenue.

[rubecube]

Arum and Pacquiao totally blew this thing and are trying to cash out now. Both fighters are obviously on the downsides of their careers, but Floyd's regression hasn't been nearly as noticeable as Manny's.

[calgarygeologist]

Better than nothing but I agree it is a few years late. I'll still watch though and I think Manny will be the victor.

[Slava]

Like everyone else says, its too late. I will definitely be watching though. I think Floyd wins in a technical, boring unanimous decision.

[Zach]

Floyd via tech decision easy

[Sammymydog1]

2010 I would be excited. 2015 meh! I have to agree that Money wins via a lacklustre unanimous decision.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Yeah the only way I see Manny winning this is if Freddie Roach puts together a masterful gameplan to get to Floyd. But this is a terrible matchup for Manny, he leaves himself too exposed too often and Floyd, even diminished, is still a great counter puncher. Could be a lopsided fight on the scorecards without a terrific plan from Roach. Tickets expected to be $1,000-5,000 at face value, and even then most people expect few if any will actually be available to the public. Resellers are going to make a killing on this one.

[craigwd]

Unlike the pessimists, I still think this will be a good fight. Money May will take it.

[OzSome]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

Yeah the only way I see Manny winning this is if Freddie Roach puts together a masterful gameplan to get to Floyd. But this is a terrible matchup for Manny, he leaves himself too exposed too often and Floyd, even diminished, is still a great counter puncher. Could be a lopsided fight on the scorecards without a terrific plan from Roach. Tickets expected to be $1,000-5,000 at face value, and even then most people expect few if any will actually be available to the public. Resellers are going to make a killing on this one.

When Manny Pacquiao was about to fight Oscar DeLa Hoya, experts were saying it is no match and DeLa Hoya will destroy Pacquiao. They were saying Oscar was way much bigger than Manny and it was foolish of Manny's camp to agree on this fight. Everybody knows how it turned out. It was actually Manny who destroyed DeLa Hoya. What I am saying is, all the experts might be saying Mayweather will win this fight easily but there is always a power of surprise. Pacquiao might be more motivated in this fight so he'll end up winning.
In my opinion, if this fight goes the distance and noone goes down, I pretty much say the judges will give Mayweather the fight no matter what happenned during the night. I don't trust the boxing judges lately especially if you are fighting a well-known American boxer. Pacman needs to bring Mayweather a lot in order for the judges to give Pacman a decision or the best option for Pacman is just to knock Mayweather out.

[Slava]

This fight kind of illustrates what's wrong with boxing as well. Everyone knows that they ought to have fought years ago, but in boxing these guys can dodge fights forever.

I just watched the Golovkin/Murray fight and Golovkin is a pure predator. Cotto is still number one in the world though, and frankly these guys might never meet. The best middleweights just want nothing to do with Golovkin.

[Senator Clay Davis]

GGG should be the biggest star in boxing right now, and I'm sure he'll get there at some point as he is undoubtedly boxing fans favourite fighter right now. But the mainstream sports fan won't know about him until he gets a premium opponent, and that won't happen because there is little reward to fighting him for Cotto or other top fighters in that weight range. At the moment Golovkin is not a big enough PPV star, so the risk of a highly probable loss is not worth the less than huge financial return for such a fight.

GGG will become unavoidable as a fighter when he becomes the biggest PPV star in the sport, and hopefully that is soon. In terms of all combat sports, there isn't a fighter with a more appealing style than Golovkin, he fights to hurt the opponent and win by KO, doesn't care for decisions and will fight absolutely anyone between 154 and 168. I think he's got a chance to go down as a much greater fighter than Mayweather or Pacquiao, assuming guys stop ducking him.

[transplant99]

Heard this on the radio this morning... May 2 will be quite the day in sports.

Pacquiao/Mayweather

NBA playoffs

NHL playoffs

Kentucky Derby

Yankees/Red Sox

[CofR]

WGC - Cadillac Match Play is that weekend as well.

[nik-]

Five years ago this might have been a good one. Now ... I'm pretty sure Floyd is going to beat the hell out of Pacquiao

[Harry Lime]

Boxing is such a mess that I actually find it a little sad that this fight is going to make as much money as it will. The sport is so badly in need of one overwhelming governing body.

I suppose the only hope is that after this fight they can work out a unification bout with the USBFA and KOMBA champions to fight the round robin winner of the Indonesian 8 Champion hydra league, and then the winner of that could fight Steve Tuckens down at Pinko's Crab Shack, so that the winner of that could fight the winner of Manny/Floyd and we can have one unanimous Champion for a couple of weeks.

That would be cool. And probably a nice billion dollar payday.

[dammage79]

Originally Posted by nik-

Five years ago this might have been a good one. Now ... I'm pretty sure Floyd is going to beat the hell out of Pacquiao

Mayweather didn't take this fight until now for that distinct purpose. I've always found he's been a wimp in picking his fights so strategically. It's his right of course but this fight 5 years ago could've kept Boxing relevant

[Badgers Nose]

This is an automatic buy IMO.

[jschick88]

As fans probably expected, tickets to the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Manny Pacquiao showdown at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on May 2 will be incredibly expensive. That's if you can find them.

ESPN.com's Dan Rafael believes that as few as 1,000 tickets could be made available to the public. The cheapest tickets are expected to be sold for $1,000.

According to Rafael, there has not been a price set for the pay-per-view, which will be a joint effort by HBO and Showtime. However, he expects the pay-per-view to be about $89.95.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2...mming-national

@scottwins Bob Arum @ESPNLasVegas: To get ringside txs to Floyd/Manny, you must have at least a $250,000 credit line w/ MGM to even get consideration.

@scottwins H/T my bro Mark Spreitzer (35 years in the LV casino biz) says the person must be willing to play the full 250k...not just have the line.

[craigwd]

Originally Posted by transplant99

Heard this on the radio this morning... May 2 will be quite the day in sports.

Pacquiao/Mayweather

NBA playoffs

NHL playoffs

Kentucky Derby

Yankees/Red Sox

NFL draft as well.

[St. Pats]

Lot of cash for what? Mayweather's fights are meh when he was at his best. Manny in years gone by would have been a good matchup but his best days are behind him. Too late. Think it will be a snooze fest.