Comments Thread For: Mayweather-Pacquiao: MGM Grand Has The Edge To Host

[MissDeeCole]

actually, its a bad atmosphere to hold the fight, and always has been. Best crowds always used to be in Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, etc. when fights were held at the basketball arenas

[sahongsahong]

test test test

[MindBat]

actually, its a bad atmosphere to hold the fight, and always has been. Best crowds always used to be in Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, etc. when fights were held at the basketball arenas

I think it's safe to say that most people know how Vegas got the name
"Sin City".

Vegas is the current mecca of boxing for a reason. However, it wouldn't hurt to see a big fight at another sight.

Wasn't sure if you were referring to Vegas or New Jersey.

[Access_Denied]

I think it would be amazing to have it in the Cowboys stadium but a fight with this magnitude has to be in Sin City!!

[mathed]

Except that there won't be enough seats in the MGM and from the nose bleeds, the fighters will look like ants but other than that....yay!!!!!

[josenoway]

wooooo, go vegas.

[WarriorSoul]

To not have the biggest fight in this decade in the city of Sin would be a sin in itself. Who gives a **** about the Cowboys stadium and the ******ed huge screen. I understand it could seat more people, but really would it be worth it to be watching it at the nosebleed seats? You ain't gonna be seeing **** unless you have a pair of binos. Yeah you could watch the fight on the big screen, but isn't that the same as watching it at home on PPV????? Would it be really worth it? Maybe, for some people.

Another thing that's already been mentioned, THERE AINT **** IN DALLAS. Compared to the Vegas strip there ain't **** there. I don't know about you, but the biggest selling point of watching it in Vegas is being around the atmosphere. The atmosphere is definitely different from just a normal day in Vegas than when there's a big venue going on. It's the whole experience leading up to the evening of the fight that makes it great. Tell me what you'd be doing in Dallas leading up to the evening? Ain't not a damn thing compared to what you could be doing in Vegas.

[NYU Alum.]

Leave it to boxing to suck any profit off the biggest event in the sport in maybe over 25 years. Instead of packing a huge stadium they will settle for the 18,000 seat stadium that a casual fan would have no shot getting into. Instead of putting it on a network that would branch out to everyone they will keep it on PPV and charge a high amount for it. Instead of giving us showcase fights on the undercards they will give us bull **** fighters that have no future of being good in the sport. The sport of boxing will continue to hurt itself by having the greediest people running it.

There, I corrected it for ya.

This goes back to what Dana White said awhile back. That, the boxing promoters don't care about the sport, they just care about the quick $$$ scheme and not really care about the future of boxing.

[BoxingScribe]

This fight WILL be in Vegas

No way any place besides Vegas gets this fight. Top Rank and GBP are just using Dallas' interest in the fight to squeeze more benefits outta Vegas. You know how many Casino owners in Vegas have contacted Arum and GBP about side cash to bring those people into town? The money that would be spent in Vegas outside and away from the fight with those people coming in would tower over the money spent in Dallas. Trust me the casino's are gonna pony up money to get that fight to Vegas. I just wished they would do the fight in May when it is warmer.....and I would have the money for ringside seats...lol

[Kevin Malone]

I think the odds of this going to Cowboys Stadium are slim but it would be great for boxing if it landed there. The hardcore and casual fans who weren't rich could attend it. The atmosphere in the stadium with over 100k people would be electric. Even if you only sat in the nosebleeds you would have an amazing experience and easily be able to see the fight on the big screens (way different atmosphere than watching the PPV). The size of the crowd alone would more attention to the the even than if it was in a 30k seat arena in Vegas.

I really don't have any chance of actually attending it either way but I still hope it lands in Dallas.