Barclays Center Giving Away 2 Mayweather-McGregor Tix Saturday

By Keith Idec

More than 13,000 fans showed up at Barclays Center on July 13 just for a Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Conor McGregor press conference.

Any fan that comes to Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Saturday night will have a chance to attend the actual fight.

Officials from Barclays Center have announced that two tickets to the highly anticipated Mayweather-McGregor fight will be given away to a fan in attendance during the card Saturday night that’ll feature Adrien Broner and Mikey Garcia in the 12-round, 140-pound main event. The winner of the drawing will be announced during Saturday’s card, which will include 10 fights, two of which Showtime will televise.

Tickets to the Mayweather-McGregor card, which will take place August 26 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, are a coveted commodity. T-Mobile Arena can accommodate about 20,000 fans for boxing, but not nearly that many tickets have been made available to the general public.

In an attempt to prevent scalpers from scooping up all the Mayweather-McGregor tickets for re-sale on the secondary market, those interested in buying tickets needed Ticketmaster Verified Fan codes just to have a chance to purchase tickets when the first batch went on sale Monday.

According to an ESPN.com story, Ticketmaster declined to announce how many Mayweather-McGregor tickets have been made available to the general public.

Mayweather-McGregor tickets are extremely expensive. The price points are $500, $1,500, $2,500, $3,500, $5,000, $7,500 and $10,000.

Fans who didn’t preregister for when tickets went on sale Monday will have another opportunity to buy tickets when more will be made available on ticketmaster.com on Wednesday at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT.

Tickets to the Broner-Garcia card also can be purchased by visiting ticketmaster.com or barclayscenter.com, or by calling 800-745-3000. The pricing for Broner-Garcia tickets is $50, $75, $150, $250, $300, $350, $750 and $950.

The 29-year-old Garcia (36-0, 30 KOs), of Oxnard, California, has moved up from 135 pounds to 140 to face Cincinnati’s Broner (33-2, 24 KOs, 1 NC). Showtime will broadcast Broner-Garcia, as well as a WBC middleweight elimination match that’ll pit Houston’s Jermall Charlo (25-0, 19 KOs) against Argentina’s Sebastian Heiland (29-4-2, 16 KOs).

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.