You must have seen more than one dangerous fight in your life. If we talk about boxing, then the fun that is enjoyed in watching the fight of players like Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson is nowhere else. But do you know that once the world’s most expensive fight was fought in this boxing game. In this fight, the winner got Rs 1800 crore and the loser got Rs 1000 crore.
Even cricketers do not get this much money after winning the World Cup, while cricket is most popular in India. Although, boxing may not be so popular in India, but the number of its fans is in crores all over the world. So let us tell you when it was fought and between whom the world’s most expensive fight was fought.
Between whom was the world’s most expensive fight
Above we told you that if you are fond of watching boxing then after watching boxers like Mike Tyson and Mohammad Ali you get filled with thrill. However, the world’s most expensive fight was fought not between them but between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao in the year 2015. The fight was a topic of discussion among the people of the whole world because the organizers had spent billions of rupees for this fight. At the same time, bookies had also invested a lot of money on it.
Tickets were sold out as soon as they were released
You can guess how much the craze was about this fight from the fact that the tickets for all the seats in the stadium where this match was to be held were sold out within just 1 minute. People had spent thousands of dollars to see this fight. The most important thing is that this thrilling fight took place in the MGM Grand Stadium with a capacity of 16800 spectators. However, only 500 tickets were issued by the organizers for the general audience, whose price ranged from $1500 to $7500.
who won
After several matches, the final round of this historic match was played on 2 May 2015. Mayweather and Pacquiao broke down on each other as soon as they entered the ring. There was a fierce fight between the two. The audience watching this fight would have gaped open after every punch. Many times it happened that the fight reached the point where the whole stadium was silent. At the end of the 12-round fight, the panel of judges decided that Floyd Mayweather would be declared the winner of the match. The biggest thing is that in this fight of just 1 hour, along with the winner, the loser also became a billionaire.
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