The fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao will be the most expensive boxing match in UK pay-per-view history.<\/p>\n
Sky Sports Box Office has been awarded the rights to show live coverage of the fight from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Saturday, 2 May.<\/p>\n
The channel will charge customers up to \u00a324.95 to watch the bout depending on how it is booked.<\/p>\n
Customers were charged \u00a314.95 to watch Ricky Hatton fight Mayweather in 2007.<\/p>\n
That fight holds the UK pay-per-view audience record with 1.2m viewers.<\/p>\n
Sky say the bout is the highest priced boxing fight they have ever put on.<\/p>\n
In America, cable networks Showtime and HBO are preparing to charge a record $99.95 (\u00a365) to show the fight on pay-per-view.<\/p>\n
The Mayweather-Pacquiao fight, staged after six years of negotiations, is expected to generate as much as \u00a3162m ($250m).<\/p>\n
American Mayweather, 38, and Filipino Pacquiao, 36, are considered to be the best two fighters of their generation.<\/p>\n
Mayweather’s WBC and WBA welterweight titles and Pacquiao’s WBO belt will be on the line at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
Mayweather is unbeaten in 47 professional fights; Pacquiao has 57 wins and five losses from 64 contests.<\/p>\n
To date, the most lucrative fight is thought to have been Mayweather’s bout against Saul Alvarez in 2013, which made an estimated \u00a397m.<\/p>\n
Mayweather-Pacquiao will almost certainly beat that record, as well as the mark for worldwide pay-per-view purchases, which is currently 2.5m for Mayweather-Oscar De la Hoya in 2007.<\/p>\n
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