Mayweather-Pacquiao fight turning into a debacle

With 10 days to the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight, contracts aren’t signed, tickets aren’t on sale, and the fight that could save boxing is instead reflecting the flaws that continue to damage it.
While the two camps agreed to the fight in February, they’re yet to sign the contract.
As a result, tickets to both the fight at the MGM Grand and the closed-circuit viewings at MGM properties around Las Vegas haven’t been released for sale.
Ticket sales are expected to generate $72 million, but a week and a half before the fight, no one has a ticket. The two sides reportedly made progress on Tuesday, but the contract remains unsigned as of Wednesday morning.
Pacquiao’s promoter, Top Rank, is blaming Mayweather
Promotions, and vice versa.
Top Rank CEO, Bob Arum, said that Mayweather’s adviser, Al Haymon, is responsible and that the delay is possibly a power play so Mayweather’s camp can get more tickets to sell on the secondary market.
This theory was seconded by Pacquiao’s adviser Michael Koncz, who later told Iole: “This is Haymon and Haymon alone. He is trying to keep us from getting what we’re due in the agreement we signed.”
Mayweather Promotions didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Arum told Rovell that the contract Mayweather Promotions sent Top Rank on April 15 was different from the term sheet they signed back in February.
Top Rank wouldn’t have control over how the fight is staged under the contract that’s on the table, Arum said.
“They don’t want us to have any say,” Arum noted. “So, whether they came up with the deal between Mayweather and MGM before or after our agreement, they’ve committed fraud either way. That’s what we’re enmeshed in.”
On Tuesday, Arum said his camp finally got the ticket manifest, which seems to have cooled tension a bit.