Slightly cheaper tickets for fight
Published 12:00 am Thursday, August 6, 2015
Didn’t buy a ticket to the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao bout in May? You can use that cash for Mayweather’s Sept. 12 bout and have enough left over to treat nine of your friends.
Mayweather, seeking to tie Rocky Marciano’s 49-0 boxing record set nearly 60 years ago, on Wednesday announced plans to defend his WBC and WBA welterweight world titles against Andre Berto at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
The least expensive resale tickets for the fight are listed for $493, according to secondary market ticket aggregator SeatGeek. That’s less than a tenth the $5,321 price asked for the cheapest tickets a month before Mayweather beat Pacquiao at the same venue.
The median list price is $2,154, compared with the $9,037 average that was sought a month out from the Mayweather-Pacquiao bout. Face-value ticket pricing and sale information will be disclosed later this week.
— From wire reports