Bizarre: Still no tickets out for Pacquiao-Mayweather fight
Worldwide event
“This is not acceptable,” said Arum, who promotes Pacquiao. “This is a worldwide event that the city of Las Vegas is involved in. It’s one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen.”
Gregoire said the fight is one of Seatgeek’s most searched events, but that only a few dozen tickets had been sold through the website. Those tickets are what the ticket industry calls “spec tickets” because the sellers don’t actually have them in hand, but expect to get them before the fight.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. (left) and Manny Pacquiao. AP FILE PHOTO
The cheapest seat on the site on Friday was $4,800, and Gregoire said the average sale so far is in the $8,000 range.
“People are hesitant to buy in the secondary market before there’s been an original sale,” he said. “And you’ve also got the incredible prices being asked for tickets now. That means a lot of people are not buying tickets at this point.”
At Stubhub there are no tickets for sale, spokesperson Alison Salcedo said, because the ticket reseller is waiting for actual prices to be set and tickets to be printed.
“There’s still so much up in the air for this fight that we’re not allowing spec sales,” Salcedo said. “We’re not willing to take that risk now.”
Tickets have also not gone on sale for the closed circuit telecast of the fight at the various MGM properties in Las Vegas. Thousands of those tickets are expected to be sold to fans that can’t get into the arena itself, but no price has been set for them.
No freebies
Koncz said he talked to Pacquiao on Thursday about making sure he had enough tickets to take care of people in his camp. He said there had been requests from around the world for fight tickets, but that they had been forced to put them off because of the uncertainty over how many tickets are available and their pricing.
One thing that is certain, he said, is no one—including the celebrities who generally populate the ringside seats—is getting in for free, even Bob Arum. AP
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