Bernstein on Mayweather-Pacquiao: 'Vegas Will Be at a Standstill'
Roughly two weeks out from Mayweather-Pacquiao, some boxing insiders are expecting north of 3 million pay-per-view buys. At $99 a pop the boxing world would also be shocked if it wasn't the most lucrative fight ever.
It's a fight fueled by so much hype, Al Bernstein expects 'Las Vegas will be at a standstill.'
"You can tell when that feeling is there," the Showtime boxing analyst said on WQAM's Marc Hochman Show with Zach Krantz. "when it's clearly an event that transcends the sport, transcends to the casual sports fan and this one certainly has done that. I don't think it's hyperbole to say that."
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It certainly doesn't seem like hyperbole when fans wishing to attend the weigh-in are required to purchase a ticket for the first time in Vegas history. Does Bernstein think this will be the "craziest" he's ever seen Las Vegas?
"Yeah I do for this reason," he said. "Craziest, in terms of gridlocked. The time before those fights in the 80s was magical. It really was. Sometimes when you reminiscence, people think sometimes you're exaggerating but those times were amazing. The activity, the buzz, the amount of things going on. The people here. This will be like that, but it will eclipse it in this sense. Because there's more hotels, because there's more space, because it's more mechanized, everything is going to be tripled from what happened back then.
"I think it's going to be extraordinary."
As for the latest line, the professionally undefeated Mayweather is currently a stout favorite at -210 (risk $1 to win $0.48) and Pacquiao is +170 (risk $1 to win $1.70), according to Bovada.
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