Kevin Iole reporting for Yahoo! Sports says that an agreement between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather is imminent. The likely date is a surprising March 13th:
The much-anticipated bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao is all but set for March 13, a source told Yahoo! Sports.
Mayweather has agreed to terms and promoter Bob Arum is making a trip to Manila, Philippines, to finalize a deal with Pacquiao, the source said.
Payout Perspective:
Many anticipated the bout would take months to negotiate, and so May or June was expected. In fact, May 1st was rumoured last week, which would have put Pacquiao-Mayweather head-to-head with Machida-Shogun II in Montreal. Thus, the news of this card possibly being moved up to March 13th is good news for the UFC – it’s one date they probably want to avoid going up against.
Moreover, a Pacquiao-Mayweather fight would hog a great deal of the press for any MMA related news in May or June, which is a time of year that has churned out excellent PPV and media coverage for the sport in the past.
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Not so fast. Looks like Pacquiao is more interested in the political arena. June, at the earliest but “never” seems more and more likely.
This fight needs to happen sooner than later. This could break all PPV records, however, I’m betting around 1.8 million buys.
dela hoya got 1.8 million ppv with trinidad and mayweather got 350t ppv before they fought….and the result was 2.4 million dollars…
pacman got 1.25 mil with cotto and mayweather got a cool million with marquez—- (though he got 950 with hatton and 2.4 mill with delahoya)but lets strick with theyre recent fights combine them and youll get 2.2 million plus addtional curious mainstream fans whos going to be lured in with mainstream medias coverage of this fight….so it think it would reach 2.7 and up….would be a good estimate….is going to be bigger than the super bowl in the u.s.. and would rival world cup worldwide….east vs west …
3.1 million PPV buys.