Tickets are priced at $1,250, $1,000, $600, $300 and $150 (not including applicable service charges) and will go on sale Friday at 1 p.m. ET.
Tickets are limited to 12 per person, only two of which can be the $150 tickets. They can be purchased with a credit card by calling Ticketmaster (800-745-3000), in person at the MGM Grand Garden Arena box office or at www.mgmgrand.com or www.ticketmaster.com.
It's a slam dunk that Mayweather-Ortiz will be a hot ticket. Mayweather's past four fights -- all of which have been staged at the MGM Grand -- rank among the top 23 boxing gates in Nevada history. With Mayweather ending a 16-month layoff, there figures to be pent-up demand.
Here is how Mayweather's past four fights did on Nevada's all-time list:
• No. 1: His May 2007 fight with Oscar De La Hoya not only drew a record Nevada boxing gate (and an all-time pay-per-view sales record of almost 2.5 million units), but netted the biggest gate in boxing history -- a monstrous $18,419,200 from a paid attendance of 17,078.
• No. 10: In May 2010, Mayweather's most recent fight, he beat Shane Mosley as the bout drew a paid crowd of 14,038 for a gate of $11,032,100.
• No. 12: Mayweather's memorable knockout of Ricky Hatton in December 2007 drew 15,488 fans (mostly Brits rooting for Hatton), which translated to $10,393,950.00.
• No. 23: In September 2009, Mayweather ended a 21-month retirement by facing Juan Manuel Marquez and drew a paid crowd of 12,009 for a gate of $6,865,250.
Besides projecting a big crowd at the MGM Grand, my prediction is that Mayweather-Ortiz, at $54.95, will be the best-selling pay-per-view fight of the year. HBO's four-part "24/7 Mayweather-Ortiz" reality series, which follows the fighters through their training camps, will debut Aug. 27 (10 p.m. ET/PT).
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