LAS VEGAS -- If you do not have Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fatigue yet, just wait.
Media shops round the world are converging upon this desert boxing capital in numbers unseen for a fight, tho' there's no indication what percentage truly are going to be admitted to MGM Grand Garden Arena to cover Saturday's long-awaited welterweight clash.
Owners of a Kentucky Derby horse named Itsaknockout sold a sponsorship to the fight and is wearing a Mayweather-Pacquiao blanket at churchill downs.
Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, gang units from la and oakland, and metropolis railroad Police -- the latter of which will have a short lived station inside the casino -- are among the authorities coordinating on a colossal security plan.
Just over 16,000 fans truly can witness the fight live, with price tag costs from $1,500 to $7,500 for the final public (not as well as some of $10,000 vip set-asides), and solely concerning five hundred truly made available for a public sale that lasted seconds on thursday.
Forget tickets to the actual fight, though.
Weigh-in tickets, at $10 a pop with the cash going to charity, sold out rapidly. so did the some 50,000 tickets at $150 each to watch the fight at closed-circuit venues in las vegas, given solely at MGM Resorts properties across the town, with home pay-per-view blacked out here.
For the remainder of the nation, it is a record $100 to watch at home in high-definition, and the monumental costs for the richest fight in history are projected to earn nine-figure gross windfalls for each fighters, with Mayweather getting the 60-40 favorable split on most profits once the various business interests are satisfied.
