By Edward Chaykovsky
Celebrities beware, there won't be any comps on May 2nd at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas - when Floyd Mayweather Jr. faces Manny Pacquiao in a super-fight showdown. Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum, who promotes Pacquiao, is getting flooded with requests for tickets from a who's who list of celebrities.
Arum says even the MGM Grand is keeping things very, very tight with who gets complimentary tickets. The venue is only selecting the biggest of the high rollers.
"Nobody is going to get these tickets without paying for them. The type of calls I'm getting, it's unbelievable. I could spend the rest of the day on the phone and sell out the entire place. The biggest block [of tickets] is with MGM. When I get a call from a celebrity, or I assume when Mayweather gets a call from a celebrity, we immediately send them to MGM and tell them to fill the order," Arum told ESPN 1100 Radio.
"Because of the price of the tickets, MGM, for example, will only give ringside tickets to its customers who have a $250,000 line of credit."
