Mayweather-Pacquiao: Venues Battle For Hosting Rights

[Horus]

The fight negotiations for Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs Manny Pacquiao have just started and every major venue is putting in a bid to host the event. One city making a major play to host the event is New Orleans. Bill Clinton's former consigliere James Carville has spoken to Top Rank's Bob Arum and HBO Sports President Ross Greenburg about bringing the fight to the New Orleans Superdome which could seat around 70,000 for the fight. [details]

Damn this fight is going to be treated like a Super Bowl...
This is in my opinion the highest magnitude fight of my lifetime.
Born in 1985. I never have seen a fight receive soo much hype...

This might even reach the level of Ali vs. Joe Frazier.

It makes me real happy to see that my favorite fighter will be apart of this historic match up.

This is going to be great for boxing.

[razor.thin]

Damn this fight is going to be treated like a Super Bowl...
This is in my opinion the highest magnitude fight of my lifetime.
Born in 1985. I never have seen a fight receive soo much hype...

This might even reach the level of Ali vs. Joe Frazier.

It makes me real happy to see that my favorite fighter will be apart of this historic match up.

This is going to be great for boxing.

it will be good to see him in a legit fight before he retires, even if it is vs a blown up lightweight atg.

[Horus]

it will be good to see him in a legit fight before he retires, even if it is vs a blown up lightweight atg.

floyd is a blown up lightweight atg....
80% of his career is at 130
His fought in the oly. at 125.
he fought in the am. at
(106lbs), 1994 (114lbs) and 1996 (125lbs).

[project xxx1]

it will be good to see him in a legit fight before he retires, even if it is vs a blown up lightweight atg.

typical pbf hater

[Jiddu Dali]

this fight will generate too much money to not have the high rollers dropping cash in vegas

[Jiddu Dali]

it will be good to see him in a legit fight before he retires, even if it is vs a blown up lightweight atg.

Pac is a blown up lightweight now?

[sceneboxing]

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.

Your comment is pretty ******...

The fight being in Vegas is not guaranteed. A fight like this deserves the biggest stage, and each considered venue should be looked at.

[GG Marquez]

damn if that fight came
to my city (new orleans)
that would be a dream come true

New Orleans is a good city. They have the hotel capacity. They have casinos and legalized ********. The economy needs the boost.

...and I can go to Mother's for some chicken.

[Horus]

floyd is a blown up lightweight atg....
80% of his career is at 130
His fought in the oly. at 125.
he fought in the am. at
(106lbs), 1994 (114lbs) and 1996 (125lbs).

Too Add to this:
80% of Floyd's fights has been at 130
He fought in the 1996 Olympics at 125
He fought in the fought as a amateur at 125,114, and 106.

So at best Floyd is a Blown up Junior Welterweight. AT BEST.
Just by looking at his career

[prsi]

The expectation and income of this fight seem to me that will have no precedents, so ther should be no excuse, for any of the fighters to accept a 50/50 split because it will provide them, by far the biggest purse of their careers. It will ****** of anyone of these of these fighters, turn down this fight just because one of them will consider themselve a bigger draw or star than the other.

JUST GET THE CONTRACT SIGNED AND LETS GET IT ON WITH!!!

Having said that, I currently live 1-1/2 hour away from New Orleans and this area has a lot of Asian (including lots of Phillipinnes) community and so those the African American community and it's also half way from the east and west side coast.

The Superdome might be a great idea!!!!