Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao HAD to be held in Las Vegas, says （頭が）ひょいと動く Arum

  • Floyd Mayweather takes on Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas on May 2
  • Several 発生地s had been について言及するd in relation to the mega-fight
  • New York, the Philippines and Dallas were の中で those 支配するd out
  • Kell Brook defends his world 肩書を与える against Jo Jo Dan on Saturday?

By Jeff Powell for the Daily Mail

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It is 必然的な that myths will 渦巻く around an event as monumental as the richest fight of all time.

One by one the more extravagant of those fantasies are 存在 debunked.

No, not the enormity of the money.


This is a fortune which just keeps on growing and will carry on doing so all the way to the 砂漠 night of May 2 ? and beyond as the 支払う／賃金-TV returns 注ぐ in.

This is the latest picture Floyd Mayweather posted on shots.com as he trains for the Manny Pacquiao fight

This is the 最新の picture Floyd Mayweather 地位，任命するd on 発射s.com as he trains for the Manny Pacquiao fight

And Pacquiao has also updated his Instagram account with this picture from Monday

And Pacquiao has also updated his Instagram account with this picture from Monday

Las Vegas was the only realistic option for the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao mega-fight

Las Vegas was the only 現実主義の 選択 for the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao mega-fight

The $300million fight will be held at the MGM Grand which has hosted Mayweather's last 10 bouts

The $300million fight will be held at the MGM Grand which has hosted Mayweather's last 10 一区切り／（ボクシングなどの）試合s

The 最新の dose of reality comes from promoter （頭が）ひょいと動く Arum as he explains why, にもかかわらず all the 憶測 to the contrary, Floyd Mayweather Jnr vs Manny Pacquiao was never going anywhere except Las Vegas.

Not to New York, the 先行する spiritual home of ボクシング.

Not to the Philippines, where the 国家の adoration of Pacquiao could have 生成するd a second Thrilla in Manilla to follow in the immortal footsteps of Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.

Not to the space 長期冒険旅行 of a stadium which is the new home of the Dallas Cowboys, even though it would have 融通するd more than five times the number of 観客s lucky and 豊富な enough to acquire tickets at the MGM Grand Garden 円形競技場.

Arum was glibly 特記する／引用するd as the proponent of 代案／選択肢 発生地s.

Not least because he took his PacMan to the house which Cowboys owner Jerry Jones built in Dallas for two fights each of which pulled in 50,000 加える （人が）群がるs?

Pacquiao's promoter was cited?as the proponent of alternative venues including Dallas and New York

Pacquiao's promoter was 特記する／引用するd?as the proponent of 代案／選択肢 発生地s 含むing Dallas and New York

Arum hosted two of Pacquaio's fights to the Dallas Cowboy's stadium in front of 50,000 fans

Arum hosted two of Pacquaio's fights to the Dallas Cowboy's stadium in 前線 of 50,000 fans

‘Not me,’ said Arum as soon as Mayweather put pen to 契約 and he no longer had to muzzle himself for 恐れる of jeopardising what may we ll become The Half-Billion-Dollar ボクシング match.?

‘Don’t forget that I live here.

‘All the 労働者s in the entertainment and gaming 産業s, every restaurant and 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 owner and all their waiters, every hotel (n)役員／(a)執行力のある and their 従業員s, all the cab drivers and every 維持／整備 man... they’re all my 隣人s.

‘Ask yourselves. Am I going to let them 負かす／撃墜する? Am I going to disappoint or upset the folks next door?

‘That would have made life very difficult for me. But on 最高の，を越す of that, this fight truly belongs in Las Vegas.’

That is not just 感情. Arum is a man who 取引，協定s in hard 経済的な reality.

NFL star Tim Tebow visits Manny Pacquiao at training camp at the Wild Card Boxing Club in Los Angeles

NFL 星／主役にする Tim Tebow visits Manny Pacquiao at training （軍の）野営地，陣営 at the Wild Card ボクシング Club in Los Angeles

Pacquiao talks to trainer Freddie Roach as he continues his training at the Wild Card

Pacquiao 会談 to trainer Freddie Roach as he continues his training at the Wild Card

He sees the numbers outside the 円形競技場 ? where 16,00 0 seats 定価つきの from $1,500 to $7,500 will treble ボクシング’s gate 記録，記録的な／記録する in Nevada to $60 million.

He see past the 支払う／賃金-per-見解（をとる） TV returns which alone could 生成する 上向きs of $400 million.

He sees this 選び出す／独身 event 完全にするing the 回復 of the place where he lives from the 経済的な 後退，不況 which at one point 脅すd the 未来 of the gaming 同様に as the ボクシング 資本／首都 of the world.

Las Vegas has still not managed to attract a US major league sports franchise but Arum says: ‘This fight is three 最高の Bowls rolled in one.’

He knows it is not only 職業s in the short 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 which the richest fight of all time can 安全な・保証する but the medium 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 未来 of the entire city.

Every big 指名する in show 商売／仕事 has played the （土地などの）細長い一片 ? from Frank Sinatra to Elton John, from Barbra Streisand to Celine Dion.

So too the 広大な／多数の／重要な 指名するs in ボクシング ? from Muhammad Ali to マイク Tyson, from Sugar Ray Robinson to Sugar Ray Leonard,

Mayweather poses at home as he takes a break from his rigorous training regime

Mayweather 提起する／ポーズをとるs at home as he takes a break from his rigorous training 政権

Mayweather is training at his Las Vegas gym as he 企て，努力，提案s to 持続する his unbeaten 記録，記録的な／記録する

But Arum says: ‘What we have here now is the biggest event in the history of Las Vegas. There will be a hundred thousand or more 訪問者s. Some with tickets for the fight. Another 30,000 watching on の近くにd 回路・連盟 審査するs. Others just for the experience and so they can say they were here that night.

‘Hotel rooms are a thousand bucks a night. With all the high rollers you are looking at a casino 減少（する） at the （米）棚上げする／（英）提議するs of hundreds and hundreds of millions.’

Arum has also scotched the rumour of a re-match 条項 存在 内密に 挿入するd into the 契約,.

But if Mayweather-Pacquaio lives up to all the hype, 非，不，無 of those high rollers from all over the world will bet against all 関心d しっかり掴むing the chance to make another half-a-billion.

And where might Mayweather-Pacquiao II take place?

What happens in Las Vegas, stays in Las Vegas.

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Kell Brook, who thought he was going to die the night he was stabbed in Tenerife, makes what he knows to be nothing short of a miraculous （犯罪の）一味 復帰 in Sheffield on Saturday night.

‘There was 血 everywhere and my whole life passed before my 注目する，もくろむs,’ he 解任するs.

These six months after having two muscles and several arteries and tendons 厳しいd by a machete, the 28-year-old Brook returns to defending not his very 存在 but his world welterweight 選手権.

Kell Brook returns to action for the first time since he was stabbed when he takes on Jo Jo Dan on Saturday

Kell Brook returns to 活動／戦闘 for the first time since he was stabbed when he takes on Jo Jo Dan on Saturday

Brook 会合，会うs the challenge of Jo Jo Dan for the IBF 肩書を与える he ひったくるd from Shawn Porter with an 優れた away victory on American 国／地域.

This time he has home-town advantage at the Motorpoint 円形競技場.

He should 扱う this 対抗者 with 親族 慰安, on his way to a bigger 実験（する） against either Brandon Rios or Mexican legend Juan Manuel Marquez, victory in which should 始める，決める up the 未来 支払う／賃金-per-見解（をとる） 戦う／戦い of Britain with Amir 旅宿泊所 for which he has been agitating.

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Brook vs Dan will be live on Sky Sports 1 from 7.30 pm on Saturday night.

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