12 centrespread centrespread 13 MAY 03-09, 2015 MAY 03-09, 2015 Biggest PPV* Bouts Floyd Mayweather Jr, THE OF 36 FIGHT Manny Pacquiao, Fans’ Title: Pacman Birthplace: Bukidnon, the Philippines Fans’ Title: 38 Money, Pretty Boy Height: 5 ft 6-1/2 ins Birthplace: Michigan, USA Reach: 67 ins Height: THE CENTURY De La Hoya vs 5 ft 8 ins Record: 57 wins; 5 defeats; Mayweather, Jr (2007): Reach: 72 ins After years of haggling, world champions Floyd 2 draws; 38 knockouts 2.48 million Record: 47 wins; 0 defeats; Mayweather, Jr and Manny Pacquiao agreed to Rounds boxed: 407 Days after Mayweather defeated Carlos 26 knockouts Baldomir in 2006, he agreed to face Hoya, World Title Fights: 19 Rounds boxed: face off for the fi rst time in the richest moving up to junior-middleweight (154 363 pounds) for the bout. Hoya got a guaranteed World Title Fights: match-up in boxing history. $23.3 million and Mayweather, the winner, 24 ET Magazine gives you a World Titles: was paid a minimum $10 million. The fi ght ringside view of the 12-round WBC Flyweight Title; generated a total of $136 million IBF Junior Featherweight Title; World Titles: slugfest that got going WBC Super Featherweight Title; WBC Lightweight Title; WBC Super Featherweight Title (1998-2002); this morning WBO Welterweight Title (2); WBC Lightweight Title (2002-2004); WBC Super Welterweight Title WBC Super Lightweight Title (2005-2006); IBF Welterweight Title (2006); WBC Welterweight Title (2006-2008, 2011-present); Awards and Recognition: ESPN Fighter of the Year (2006, 2008 & 2009) Mayweather vs Saul Alvarez (2013): WBC Super Welterweight Title (2007, 2013-present); 2.25 million WBA Super Welterweight Super World Title (2012-present); Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year (2006, 2008 & 2009) Billed as “The One”, it set a record for largest WBA Welterweight Unifi ed World Title (2014-present) Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the gate for a boxing match at $20 million with Year (2006, 2008 & 2009) the MGM Grand Arena selling out in a day. It was the largest closed circuit viewing World Boxing Hall of Fame Fighter of the Year (2007) audience with over 26,000 tickets sold at $100 a pop and over 500 movie theatres Voted 2000-2009 "Fighter of the Decade" by Boxing Awards and Recognition: showing it. The fi ght, won by Mayweather, Writers Association of America exceeded $200 million in revenues Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year (2007, 2013) THE WEIGH-IN Career Earnings: The Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year (1998, 2007) Mayweather and Pacquiao were $340 mn inside the welterweight limit of Did You Know? 147 pounds; Pacquiao came in Career Earnings: $420 mn Boxing runs in at 145 pounds, and Mayweather Mayweather’s Round I Did You Know? blood. His father a pound heavier Pacquiao is also Lennox Lewis vs Mike Tyson (2002): was a welterweight Round I The lord my a movie star, 1.98 million contender, and two a television A crowd of 11,500 watched It was a hit even before the match started. of his uncles are a I am a realist. god will deliver show host, At a press conference held to publicise former IBO super the weigh-in at the MGM movie producer, This fi ght is not him into my the bout, the two boxers got involved in a featherweight Grand on Friday night businessman, a brawl. Tyson later admitted to biting Lewis' champion and a hands. I love political candidate leg and had to pay him $335,000. The fi ght, former World Boxing good versus evil. It and a founder of won by Lewis, generated $106.9 million Council super- is one fi ghter who Tickets for the weigh-in were being the People's Champ from 1.95 million buys in the US alone lightweight champion sold for $10 but touts reportedly Movement is at the top and sold tickets for $600 each underdog” Mayweather another” SUNEESH K In the Philippines appeared on general elections the fi fth season of 2010, Pacquiao of Dancing with won in his second the Stars bid for the House of Representatives Evander Holyfield vs He received a 90- Mike Tyson II (1997): day jail sentence Pacquiao is the 1.98 million in 2011 after richest member It was a rematch between the two titans. pleading guilty to of the House of Mike Tyson was to get $30 million for misdemeanour Representatives the match, where he also bit a part of domestic assault with a net worth of Holyfi eld’s ear and was disqualifi ed. It had and harassment 1.4 billion pesos viewers on the tenterhooks. Holyfi eld got $33 million for the fi ght charges MGM Grand Garden Arena (`199 crore) Venue of the megafi ght in Las Vegas (as of December 2013)

Pay-per-view Costs in Each Country/Region (fi g in $) $72 million $33,000 $300 million 16,800 $1,500 to $7,500 The price for an exclusive fl oor $100 million The amount Mayweather ($180 mn) and Pacquiao Seating capacity Amount expected to be Amount expected to be wagered 99 79 59.5 48 38.5 31 30 22 13 Free Offi cial price range of tickets seat in the secondary market, ($120 mn) will split amongst themselves on of the Arena raised from ticket sales in Nevada on the outcome US Canada Scandinavia Australia New Zealand UK Singapore Germany Spain Mexico according to Forbes projected record pay-per-view buys *pay-per-view; Source: Boxrec.com, mp8.ph, IMDB, news reports