Las Vegas: Floyd Mayweather Jr. insists this is it, though he may be one of only a few who really seem to believe it. Nineteen years and 48 fights haven't taken a big toll on Mayweather, but he's not taking any chances. He has seen what taking too many punches did to his uncle, Roger, and is determined to leave boxing with his brain fully intact.
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Start time September 12 is 8 p.m. ET and tickets will be roughly $30, less than half of the cost of the PPV price. Tickets for the select theater showing of Mayweather vs. Berto can be purchased.
The seats are only going for between $125 and $1,500, which is way less than the tickets prices were for the Floyd Mayweather/Manny Pacquaio fight. And yet, it doesn't seem like there's a whole lot of interest in the fight, which has reportedly led to the MGM Grand offering larger packages that include tickets and hotel rooms as opposed to just. 108 votes, 63 comments. Mayweather vs Berto Ticket prices: $1,500 $1,000 $750 $500 $300 $150 Cotto vs Alvarez $2,000 $1,750 $1,250 $650 $350 $150. Tickets are limited to eight (8) per household for all ticket prices except the $150 ticket category, which is limited to four (4) per household. Cant wait for Mayweather and Berto, its like. Ticket prices have been dropped significantly from around $10,000 to just $1,500, although the so-called ‘cheap seats’ in the upper-tier of the MGM Grand Arena are close to selling out given they.
Rich beyond belief, Mayweather doesn't need to fight anymore. And he says he's comfortable walking away from the sport he began learning before he could even walk. 'Not going to miss it at all. I feel like I've been dealt a royal flush,' Mayweather said.
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Those not on the inside in the Mayweather camp scoff at the thought he will retire after facing Andre Berto on Saturday. They wonder how he can resist trying to break the late heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano's perfect mark of 49-0 and – perhaps more importantly - resist the huge money another fight would bring.
Those who know him best say he means what he says, even though an earlier retirement ended after 21 months. 'Why can't a man go out when he's had an illustrious career, accomplished everything that he needs to accomplish and be done? And he's done it his way,' Mayweather confidante Leonard Ellerbe said.
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Of that, there is little debate. Mayweather managed, in a career that dates to his pro debut in 1996, to reinvent himself several times and make more money than any fighter before him despite a defensive style that borders on boring in the ring.
He earned some $220 million in his last fight alone, a staggering figure that dwarfs all his other paydays. It happened because the desire to see him fight Manny Pacquiao was so frenzied that people paid up to $39,000 for ringside tickets and 4.6 million households bought the pay-per-view at the princely price of $99.95.
The frenzy has long passed, replaced by a sour taste most got from watching Mayweather methodically dispose of Pacquiao. There's so little demand to see him fight Berto that tickets were both available and plentiful direct from the MGM Grand in almost every section of the hotel's arena in the days leading up to the bout.
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Part of that is the hangover from Pacquiao, though part of the blame has to go to Mayweather's choice of an opponent. Berto may be a former champion, but he has lost three of his last six fights - two of them to fighters Mayweather beat easily – and is a lopsided 20-1 underdog in man-to-man betting.
To try and sell the fight to those at home for a suggested price of $74.95, Mayweather has played up Berto's aggressive style and vowed to seek a knockout.
'Berto is not a pushover. No matter who I chose the media was going to have something to say; the critics were going to have something to say,' Mayweather insisted.
Mayweather weighed in Friday at 146 pounds, a pound beneath the limit, for the welterweight title fight. Berto was a pound lighter at 145.
The promotion for Berto has been so low key it almost seems as if the fight is an afterthought to Mayweather. He bristles when it is suggested that it takes a name opponent for him to sell a fight, especially when his last five fights on Showtime have closed in on 10 million pay-per-view buys with total revenue of nearly $750 million.
'Nobody's forced to watch. Watch if you want to watch. If you don't want to watch, don't watch,' Mayweather said.
Berto says people should tune in, especially if they want to see Mayweather get beat. Though a huge underdog, he has never been afraid to trade punches, something opponents don't normally do against Mayweather.
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'I've been counted out from Day 1. I'm coming for my respect and for everything I deserve. He's sharp but I have certain tools that will make things difficult for him,' said Berto, who represented Haiti in the 2004 Olympics.
If so, Berto will do something Pacquiao couldn't do. Mayweather was at the top of his game when he beat his long-time rival in the richest fight ever, and if he does retire as planned it will be with a 49-0 record that matches Marciano.
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And Mayweather made it clear he is serious about calling it a career. 'My health is more important. If you stick around anything too long, anything can happen. I'm not really worried about losing, but I want to have a sharp mind. You can make a lot of money, but you still want to be able to talk, walk, and have a sharp mind,' he said.
...Floyd Mayweather received a problematic text from his daughter.Source:AP
FLOYD Mayweather Jr. found himself with a problem as he headed to work today to try and sell sceptical fans on what he insists will be his last fight.
It wasn’t with Andre Berto, his hand-picked opponent for the 49th fight of his long career on Sunday (AEST). It’s hard to find anyone — much less Mayweather — who thinks Berto is going to give Mayweather many problems in his final fight.
The issue Mayweather was dealing with came in a text from one of his daughters. She was in Los Angeles wondering if she had to fly commercial to come see her father or if he would send his private jet.
“I said I’d send the jet,” Mayweather said.
Just another day in the life of the highest paid athlete in the world, who pulled down more than $200 million for his fight in May with Manny Pacquiao.
No need to get too hyped up for Berto, not that Mayweather gets too worked up about any of his opponents, including Pacquiao.
“This is normal for me,” Mayweather told a small group of reporters after his official arrival for fight week at the MGM Grand hotel.
“I’ve been here before, met with all you guys before. And the results will be the same as before.”
No one is giving Andre Berto a chance against Floyd Mayweather.Source:AFP
There are some things, though, that are quite different than the last time Mayweather went into the ring.
The opponent is Berto, not Pacquiao. There is little hype, and little chance Berto will rise to the occasion and become the first boxer to ever beat Mayweather as a pro.
Instead of $200 million, Mayweather will settle for a reported $32 million. And instead of seats going for thousands of dollars, there were still a lot of tickets for sale for just a few hundred dollars for a fight that is getting little buzz.
Not that Mayweather seemed terribly concerned about it.
“I just try to stay positive and keep my fingers crossed and hope for the best,” he said about the slow ticket sales.
The welterweight fight will be televised on pay-per-view for a suggested price of $74.95. Mayweather said again Tuesday that this will be his last fight, and he will not be tempted to break Rocky Marciano’s mark of 49-0 or to open the new arena on the Las Vegas Strip with a big bout next spring.
“I’m not breaking that 50-0,” Mayweather said. “Don’t worry about that.”
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Mayweather defended his choice of Berto as an opponent, even though Berto has lost three of his past six fights, two of them to fighters Mayweather easily beat.
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“He’s a former world champion so it’s obvious he did something right,” Mayweather said.
Mayweather said he was secure in his place in boxing history and wants to step back and promote other fighters.
“I’m really ready to see another fighter at the top,” he said. “I’ve done it all. I’ve broken so many records I don’t even know all the records I’ve broken.”