Mayweather-Pacquiao: Venues Battle For Hosting Rights

[FLYBOY]

the fight needs to go to a stadium. not a freakin casino. people who want to gamble can gamble on the fight at the casino and then go to the stadium.

[big_james10]

this is stup1d.

we all know that all the big fights are now hosted in Vegas.

No way it goes somewhere else not even for this fight.

Vegas has all the ballers dropping cash.

It depends on how much money is involved. This fight could sell 70,000 seats easily and could sell as many as 100,000 seats. That is why New Orleans and Dallas stadium are being considered. Unless the casinos pay a HUGE sanctioning fee, one of those other places will likely be the venue. 30,000 seats cannot compete with 70,000 and if they wave the taxes, that would be the equivalent of a huge sanctioning fee.

[big_james10]

if they did, about 7 of them would be mayweather fans, 1 would be his father.

I knew there would be at least one ignorant person making a comment like this. Somethign to think about, dumbass. The Pac/Cotto fight DID NOT SELL OUT. It was almost sold out, but there were still some tickets left at fight time. Pac could sell out a 16,000 seat arena in the biggest fight of his career. What the hell makes you think 70,000 would show up just to see Pacquaio. Where is the pissing monkey when you need him?

[big_james10]

pac - may is the biggest thing boxing can give.. maybe 70k is possible... bring ricky hatton as an undercard for an instant 25k sold tickets

Good point. Hatton/Marquez on the undercard would bring at least 10,000 of his fans from England. Of course, that won't happen. Virtually all mega fights have a lousy undercard because all the money goes to the two stars.

[jetgeomcx]

this fyt will land in VEGAS.
they have the capacity to pay the promoters......not just seating capacity.

[big_james10]

Scene,

His comment isn't completely ******. For an event of this magnitude, not every city can compete. the casino cities have a HUUUUUUUUUGE, advantage. Yooooge.

The casinos can afford to pay an exorbitant site fee because they will get residual traffic and revenue all weekend. Why would people be in Dallas all week, and what would they spend money on? By contrast, visitors to Vegas will sit at tables and pull slot machine levers.

The non-gaming locations have a verrrrrry tough time competing with the gaming cities. The gate is not what dives revenues.

Thanks.

You are right about the site fee. However, in order to win this bid, a casino in Vegas would have to pay a site fee that is three times the highest rate they have ever paid. The site fee for Oscar/Floyd was around $7 million. The site fee for this one would have to be $20 million for a casino to compete against a venue that can seat 100,000.

[pistol whip]

its going to vegas 100%

Yup this is a Vegas fight full of high rollers paying 30 grand a pop for seats. No way are high rollers going to spend the kind of money they spend in Vegas if the fight happens in a football stadium in Dallas or New Orleans.

[GOD-FR33]

I think....

This fight should be held in a venue that's never held an event of this magnitude before. NEW ORLEANS is a GOOD idea as well. ENOUGH of LAS VEGAS, NYC, LOS ANGELES, ATLANTIC CITY, etc. These places have seen enough great fights for a while. There are REAL boxing fans all over the world so let's give back to them.

[big_james10]

I wish they would put a great card together for this fight!! Make it equivalent to the Super Bowl! Have Juanma vs Celestino, Amir Khan vs Madaina, and maybe even a Pavlik vs Williams all on one card. It would be an extravaganza of epic proportions!!! The Super Bowl of boxing...and the first one ever headlined by Pacquiao vs Mayweather!!

It would be nice, but it won't happen. The guys you mention are not people who make the really big bucks right now, so we could see an undercard similar to that. But not a great card. All mega fights have lousy undercards because the top fighter get the majority of the money. In this case, $40 million to each fighter, with Arum and Oscar taking the rest. The undercard fighters will get peanuts, about as much as the entire card in an MMA PPV

[big_james10]

Do an outside arena in Las Vegas like the old days... If the fight is in May then that would be perfect cause by then the weather isnt to hot or too cold...

Outside arena in Las Vegas.

If they held it at an outside arena in Las Vegas, it would probably be the one day out of the year that it rains in Vegas.