Cowboys Stadium won't host Mayweather-Pacquiao
by Scott Christ on Dec 9, 2009 9:53 PM EST
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In a somewhat strange story, Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer has decided to pull the plug on any possible offers from Jerry Jones and Cowboys Stadium in Texas. That's what Bob Arum told ESPN.com today.
Arum, Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer, who will co-promote the nearly finalized fight, and HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg were supposed to meet with Cowboys officials at the stadium on Wednesday for a tour of the facility and to talk with Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones about a site fee for the fight.
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"Richard called me last night and said he won't go to Texas," Arum said. "And I told him to call Ross and tell him. And then I called Ross and said, 'You don't want me to go if he's not going. If Jerry Jones offers me money for the fight what is Pacquiao going to do? Go in the ring alone?' Schaefer just said, 'I'm not going to Texas. I'm not going to do the fight in Texas. I'm not going to waste my time.' That's the explanation."
Arum said he asked why and Schaefer's response was, "'The fight is March 13 and there isn't enough time to do a fight at an outdoor stadium.' It's bizarre, but that's what he said. I reminded him [that the stadium has a retractable roof]. He said it doesn't matter. I am not going to theorize. I'm just telling you what happened."
If Schaefer is serious about no outdoor stadium, that would also take out Miami, as the Dolphins just made Land Shark Stadium a possibility by stating interest, and the 30,000-seat outdoor stadium that was potentially being built in Las Vegas.
That would leave the obvious front-runner as the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, which was probably always going to be the home of the fight anyway. New Orleans' Superdome and Atlanta's Georgia Dome are also interested.
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Bad Left Hook
"If bulls**t was poetry, Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini's name would be Shakespeare." -- Dennis Rappaport
by Scott Christ on Dec 10, 2009 1:32 AM EST up reply actions
I guess it's in Vegas... that kind of sucks.
What could have been a fantastic event for the fans will end up with very few tickets available to the general public. Granted a lot of the reasonably priced seats in Dallas would have been far from the ring, but the giant scoreboards would have helped to make up for that.
by The Boxing Bulletin on Dec 9, 2009 10:28 PM EST reply actions
I'm guessing it was a tempreature control issue
Dallas in March at 11 o’clock at night, it could be 50 degrees down there, even with the roof closed.
Bad Left Hook - The SB Nation boxing blog
"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
with 80,000 ppl, Im sure it gets quite warm. The carrier dome in Syracuse used to get unbearably hot in December, half full for a basketball game. Generally the engineers know that it will get hot and stuffy in a closed roof stadium and actually have to pump in cold fresh air.
I think the real reason is they just dont want to fight in texas.
Oh that would suck
Now you mention it I hope Bayless gets it again. He sort of seems a part of Pacquiao fights now!
"Honey i forgot to duck" - Jack Dempsey
by Drunken cutman on Dec 10, 2009 2:46 PM EST up reply actions
Don't look now but LA?
Staples has made them a 20 million dollar bid
http://www.realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/63316/20091209/staples_center_makes_$20m_bid_to_host_pacquiao_mayweather/
Don’t think that’ll be close to enough to beat out the MGM.
Bad Left Hook
"If bulls**t was poetry, Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini's name would be Shakespeare." -- Dennis Rappaport
by Scott Christ on Dec 10, 2009 1:33 AM EST up reply actions
Plus California has income tax
Bad Left Hook - The SB Nation boxing blog
"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
Eh
This fight is going to be in Vegas, but it really shouldn’t be. That town has completely shunned boxing and now its begging for it back. Personally, I want it in the biggest stadium possible, so Dallas stadium so a good front-runner for that but that now looks bad.
When in the hell did Las Vegas shun boxing? When they were hosting 90% of the major fights of the last 25 years?
Bad Left Hook
"If bulls**t was poetry, Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini's name would be Shakespeare." -- Dennis Rappaport
by Scott Christ on Dec 10, 2009 6:28 PM EST up reply actions
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