Mayweather-Pacquiao tickets expected to sell for more than £60,000
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Updated 23/04/2015 at 12:52 GMT
Tickets for the welterweight fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao could fetch more than £60,000 ($100,000), according to a report from the BBC.
It could cost $100,000 to see Mayweather take on Pacquiao
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Although the MGM Grand hotel can hold 16,500 for the fight, only 500-1,000 tickets are being made available to the public, with the actual figure still a subject of conjecture.
As things stand, with nine days to go until the fight, these tickets have still not been put up for sale, although they are expected to be released at 20:00 BST on Thursday.
With intense interest on the fight, which experts believe will be "the richest in boxing history", sales start at £1,000 ($1,500) and go as high as £5,000 ($7,500)
The remaining 15,500-16,000 tickets will go to the fighters, the casino, sponsors and promoters.
However, with thousands of these being released to ticket brokers, bidding on the resale market is likely to send the costs spiralling towards $100,000.
These figures are paltry compared to the earnings the boxers will make in the night, however, with a gross income of around $400 million being split between the two fighters, 60:40 in Mayweather's favour.
With the WBC, WBO and WBA world welterweight championship belts on the line in a clash billed as 'The Fight of the Century', there is no doubt that, whatever the cost, it will be a sell-out.
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