The T-Mobile Arena attendance Saturday for the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Conor McGregor fight was 14,623, about 6,000 shy of the capacity crowd for the Canelo Alvarez-Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. bout in May. “You’re not going to always get it right,” Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonard Ellerbe told the Los Angeles Times Saturday night after the bout. One section appeared mostly empty in the building, and the massive number of Irish seen on The Strip were noticeably not represented the arena. Yet, the prices did accomplish the intended goal. Mayweather said after the bout that the money generated from the bout set a new live-gate record fro combat sports of nearly $80 million..

Source: Los Angeles Times August 27, 2017 07:18 UTC