Mayweather vs. Pacquiao

If you haven't heard about the Mayweather/Pacquiao fight than clearly you have been living under a rock. Some are saying that this is one of the most anticipated fight since the times of the great Muhammad Ali and people are most certainly acting like it. You can tell due to the fact that every restaurant with a television is playing it and to top that they are charging you a cover fee for just coming in.

The low end estimates from business insider say this fight is going to rank in around three hundred million for a couple of reasons however there is one primary reason. Quite seemingly the largest and most unknown reason is this fight should have happened five years ago. In 2010 the fight was scheduled, the boxers ready to go, but Mayweather backed out of the fight moving the $60 (at the time) pay-per-view program off the map maybe never to be set up again. Now we are here with a program that people have been talking about for the last five years and instead of paying $60 for the view they are now paying closer to $100 a view. With increased anticipation for the fight of the past couple of decades it is clear that this is going to be one of the highest grossing events happening this year and that is without pushing in all the gambling that will be happening.