MGM Resorts has something like 10 properties on the Las Vegas Strip, built on the event with the closed circuits across the properties, and pushed the **** out of the fight in the local area (maxing out the whales being brought in).
You honestly think that Mayweather Promotions (or even Top Rank) would give all that up to rent Thomas & Mack Center or try to sell $10m in tickets at JerryLand? lol
$70m at the gate, who knows how much from the closed circuit, hotel comps across the MGM properties, Floyd's face on the building for the full year, and all the other perks involved (Floyd basically being able to be comped anything he wants across the properties)?
Yes, you're not looking at all that bad a deal.
Because, in thinking it out, what would the opposite look like?
I'm not a promoter, but what do you think it would earnestly cost to turn Las Vegas into "the place where you'll see Floyd fight" for the full fight event, nevermind the pickup when fight week comes around.
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