Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao fight (Photo : Shot.com)
Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. (Photo : Twitter)
Manny Pacquiao (L) and Floyd Mayweather Jr. (R) (Photo : Reuters)
After five long years of waiting, the super fight between the best of both worlds in boxing will finally happen in MGM Arena on May 2.
After years of circus, there were many, including legends of the sports and boxing analyst has thrown in the towel and gave up. But a couple of weeks back, finally the two boxing giants has signed the paper and agreed to face each other inside the squared circle this coming May.
Considering that many have given up on the mega fight, now the biggest question was what really transpired on the negotiations that turned it 360 degrees?
Bleacher Report was one of the first to get hold of the outcome of the negotiation and the photo of the signed contract.
They said that after years of constant negotiation fall outs, the final talk between them has happened out of pure luck. It happened when both fighters were on a Miami game last January and at halftime, Mayweather approached Pacquiao on the court shook his hand and had small talks then eventually exchanged numbers. After the game, both fighters went to Pacquiao's suite and most probably discussed the arrangements and past roadblocks of the negotiations and finally agreed to something that led into the signing of the contracts.
Mayweather also posted a photo online of the contract and was captioned, "What the world has been waiting for has arrived. Mayweather v Pacquiao on May 2, 2015, is a done deal. I promised the fans we would get this done, and we did. We will make history on May 2nd. Don't miss it! This is signed contract from both fighters."
On separate report, ESPN confirmed that the tickets of the super fight are not yet "officially" on sale, but resale websites are giving out tickets to as much as $21,000.
