About a month ago, we let you know that you weren't going to be able to afford tickets to the Floyd Mayweather/Manny Pacquiao fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. At the time, they were selling for between $1,000 and $5,000 and most tickets weren't even being made available to the public. And believe or not (believe it!), Mayweather/Pacquiao tickets have become even harder to come by since then.
Pacquiao's promoter Bob Arum just revealed that, over the last month, ticket prices have gone up and are now selling for between $1,500 and $7,500. And while the fight was originally expected to generate somewhere around $50 million in ticket sales, the expectation is that the fight will now make about $74 million based off the sale of about 15,000 tickets.
"It's crazy," Arum told ESPN yesterday, "but it is what it is. It's amazing."
Arum also revealed that a small number of tickets will likely be going on sale to the general public sometime within the next seven days.
"We'll probably have a handful of tickets that will go on sale to the public next week," he said. "It's mania."
Mania. That sums it up.
Here's the official artwork for the fight that was released yesterday:
