Does the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao fight proves they don’t care about hardcore fight fans?

By Boxing News - 03/12/2015 - Comments

Floyd Mayweather(Photo credit: Esther Lin/Showtime) By Gerardo Granados: A friend of mine is really excited about the upcoming May 2 mega fight and asked me if I was going to purchase the pay per view, so I looked back at him confused and a little bit irritated, telling him that I have bills to pay and other important things to do with one hundred notes than to watch live that fight.

My friend replied to me saying that he thought that I was a “hardcore fight fan” and he could not believe that I had no intention to watch it live.

The thing is that I do am a die hard fight fan but I feel somehow betrayed when the loyal boxing fans are going to be left out because they don’t have more than one thousand notes to pay for a ticket, well in reality there are reports saying that ring side tickets are going as high as one hundred thousand notes! I bet the reader does not plan to spend that much, hey with that hundred we could watch countless fights live at ringside.

The privileged that will be able to buy the tickets are probably not the same loyal fight fans that fill and follow pro boxing on a regular basis. This is not new and you can see it happen at football at the finals by the way the tickets mysteriously disappear one minute after they are put on sale. This leads me to believe that professional sports on times forget about its loyal fans in order to obtain high revenues.

Only the wealthy enough can pay those prices without even blink but the vast majority of fight fans could well spent seventy notes which is expensive but to ask for more its simply too greedy.

The reader just as me are loyal boxing fight fans but I am not a Floyd Mayweather Jr or Manny Pacquiao fan boy so to me this is an interesting fight but I am not dying to watch it live. Maybe I am wrong and have a false conception of the reality and most of boxing fans are eager to pay whatever to watch the fight and not only the casual fans will be satisfied to pay for a fight that should have taken place five years ago.

Maybe I am just bitter because I have other expenses to take care before allowing myself to spend that much. Perhaps the price is right and it should cost even more because this is the “fight of the century”. Or is it possible that this fight proves both Manny and Floyd don’t care for hardcore fight fans?



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