Floyd Mayweather may have the advantage over Filipino boxer, Manny 'Pacman' Pacquiao in terms of height, weight, wins and reach, but the latter took the lead in terms of securing sponsorships worth $10.25 million.
Pacquiao took $2.25 million worth of corporate sponsorships, whose logos he would proudly wear on his boxing trunks on May 2. He also signed off $8 million worth of promotional deals with Samsung, Nike, Wonderful Pistachios, Nestle and Foot Locker.
The Financial Times reported that Pacquaio would put on these six corporate logos, while Mayweather would have none on his. Mayweather would instead be wearing his gold and diamond-encrusted mouthguard that costs $25,000.
Mayweather's criminal record of two convictions for domestic violence scared off the corporate sponsors that are quite fixated on their brand image.
Nonetheless, the U.S. fighter, who has a 47-0 record, gets to corner 60 percent of the earnings for the fight, which is estimated to be worth $300 million.
The Pacquiao-Mayweather boxing match, which took five years to finalize, had smashed records in terms of ticket sales, pay-per-view deals and sponsorship takes in boxing history, Fred Sternburg, a spokesman of boxing promoter Top Rank told the Financial Times.
The ticket sales are so brisk that the Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman was not given free tickets to the match, according to Bloomberg. Goodman was offered to buy the tickets, but her spokesman said it is way too expensive.
The MGM arena could seat 16,800, and there were less than 1,000 tickets that were made available to the public, selling out in one minute.
PGA Champion Rory McIlroy told Bloomberg that he would be at the MGM Arena for the Mayweather-Pacquaio match but did not want to reveal how much he paid for his tickets.
