{"id":46485,"date":"2015-04-08T18:39:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T10:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=46485"},"modified":"2015-04-08T18:39:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T10:39:14","slug":"demand-for-pacquiao-mayweather-fight-tickets-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/04\/08\/demand-for-pacquiao-mayweather-fight-tickets-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"Demand for Pacquiao-Mayweather fight tickets increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_44753\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44753\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/pacquiao-presser-CHRIS-FARINA-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-44753 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/pacquiao-presser-CHRIS-FARINA-2-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"pacquiao presser CHRIS FARINA 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/pacquiao-presser-CHRIS-FARINA-2-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/pacquiao-presser-CHRIS-FARINA-2-900x524.jpg 900w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/pacquiao-presser-CHRIS-FARINA-2.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Even the boxing champ, Manny Pacman Pacquiao might have to adjust with the increasing demand and scarcity of tickets for his fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Early last month, Top Rank CEO Bob Arum already pegged the ticket prizes for the fight at $7,500, $5,000, $3,000 and $1,500.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe decided to boost it up because it\u2019s better off to generate that money and put it in the gate than have the scalpers make the difference,\u201d Arum told ESPN. \u201cThe demand was so heavy this was a no-brainer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rates are higher than the initial estimate of $5,000, $3,000, $2,000 and $1,00 last February which may still increase as the fight draws near and the demand for tickets grows higher.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me tell you, this whole thing is mind-boggling,\u201d Arum told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>He also noted how prices of other goods and services including hotel rooms in Las Vegas have been going up as the fight draws near.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t get a room for under $1,000 a night. We have a show [on May 1] at the Cosmopolitan and we don\u2019t know where we\u2019re going to put the fighters,&#8221; he added in the same interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Even the boxing champ, Manny Pacman Pacquiao might have to adjust with the increasing demand and scarcity of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":44753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}