Boxing Venue for Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Manny Pacquiao - You might want to Save your Money!
By Johnny Benz (Dec 21, 2009) Doghouse Boxing (Photo © icheehuahua)  
Here is the latest on the proposed March 13th HBO Pay-Per-View TV event, Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs Manny Pacquiao, in regards to a venue. It appears that MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada may have defeated the 1.2 billion dollar state of the art facility, the Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas to host the mega event.

Two different media publications, AOL Fanhouse and the Grand Rapids Press, each are reporting that their own "unnamed" source that is close to the negotiations confirmed on Saturday that the MGM Grand has won the rights to host the event.
As of now, there still is no official word to back the claims by both publications, and personally, I hope they are wrong (even though I doubt they are).

If the MGM Grand truly is the hosting site, then fans will once again lose out. High ticket prices and very limited amounts of tickets that true fans will be allowed to purchase... I'll say this, if you were planing on watching this epic event live and the MGM Grand is hosting it.... forget about it! Save your money and time! What the Casinos in Las Vegas eat up for their "high rollers" in boxing tickets, will only leave a crumb or two for the real fans... and those small insignificant crappy seats that fans will be offered will be outrageous in price.

The MGM Grand holds just shy of over 17,000 seats. The seating capacity of the Dallas Cowboys Stadium on the other hand holds over a whopping 110,000! (Folks, do we really need to do the math here?) And every seat in the Cowboys Stadium has a great view of the action, especially with its gigantic center hung high-definition (HDTV 1080p) television screen. Folks, this massive huge screen TV is he largest in the world, popularly known as the "JerryTron" (after Cowboys owner Jerry Jones). The TV is a whopping 160-by-72-foot (49 by 22 m), 11,520-square-foot (1,070 m2).

Honestly, I hope the reports are wrong...but it looks increasingly like the MGM Grand will be the hosting site. In closing, I repeat... Do yourself a favor, if the MGM Grand in Las Vegas is the hosting site... purchase the fight on Pay-Per-View and refrain from being wiped out by the high price of Las Vegas. Save your money.

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