About a minute after tickets to next week's Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao fight went on sale Thursday, they were sold out.
Tickets to the May 2 fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena went on sale at noon on Ticketmaster, after a week of back-and-forth between the two fighters' camps. The cheapest tickets that were being sold went for about $1,500, not including service fees. Within about 60 seconds, using the “best available” search method to find tickets on the website returned a message that said, “Sorry no tickets from the venue currently."
However, ringside tickets were still available on some secondary websites, including StubHub.com. The website listed floor seats in section E for $141,575.25 each. The cheapest seats the site had listed were in the D section of the floor at $43,880.25 each.
Tickets also could be found on Ebay, the popular auction website. Early Thursday afternoon, nose-bleed tickets were being sold for at least $13,000.
Tickets to a closed-circuit-television viewing of the fight were expected to go on sale at all MGM International properties via phone or Ticketmaster at 3 p.m. Those tickets will start at $150 each.
Uncertainty about the future of the fight continued until Wednesday. That was when Yahoo Sports reported that third-parties helped hammer out a deal between the two camps.
Ticket market aggregator, TiqIQ provided some stats regarding resale data as well as the top 30 sports events they have tracked:
The current average ticket price for the Mayweather v Pacquiao fight is currently $10,859.55 (slightly higher than final avg for this years SB: $10,466.11)
The current get in price is $4,477 for Section 219 row R
The most expensive ticket currently listed is Ringside Section FLR E Row CC for $141k+
The face value tickets for this fight range from $1,500-$10,000
Below is the average price and get in for the 5 next most expensive boxing matches since 2010:
9/14/13- Mayweather v Alvarez: $3,237.70 ($1,406.60)
11/12/11- Pacquiao v Marquez: $1,677.49 ($475)
9/17/11- Mayweather v Ortiz: $1,628.66 ($451)
5/3/14- Mayweather v Maidana: $1,619.59 ($449)
9/13/14- Mayweather v Maidana: $1,591.11 ($465)
