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Manny Pacquiao vs Floyd Mayweather stats

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If Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao go the distance tomorrow night (Sat., May 2, 2015), pay-per-view (PPV) buyers -- who will shell out nearly $100 to watch the "Fight of the Century" from their living rooms -- will pay about $2.50 per minute.

Meanwhile, "Money" would bank about $5 million per minute and "Pac Man" $2.8 million per minute once their estimate payouts (see the 60/40 split here) are averaged over 12 rounds.

Not a bad haul for the first-ever PPV billionaires!

But, as SportsInteraction.com points out in its nifty Infographic below (see hi-res image here), Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao, which will take place inside MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, isn't the first boxing event to benefit from huge PPV revenues.

Check it out:

It's safe to assume that Mayweather, when all is said and done, will have participated in the top three richest boxing bouts of all time, topping his record-shattering revenue made after his win over Saul "Canelo" Alvarez and perhaps even eclipsing the 2.5 million PPV buy rate he set against Oscar de la Hoya.

We won't really know for sure until the dust settles, but for the sake of future comparison, check out the Top 10 biggest PPVs ever.

  1. Floyd Mayweather vs Saul Alvarez -- $150,000,000, Sept. 2013
  2. Floyd Mayweather vs Oscar De La Hoya -- $136,000,000, May 2007
  3. Lennox Lewis vs Mike Tyson -- $112,000,000, June 2002
  4. Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield -- $100,200,000, June 1997
  5. Mike Tyson vs Peter McNeeley -- $96,000,000, Aug. 1995
  6. Floyd Mayweather vs Miguel Cotto -- $94,000,000, May 2012
  7. Evander Holyfield vs George Foreman -- $80,000,000, April 1991
  8. Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield 2 -- $77,900,000, Nov. 1996
  9. Manny Pacquiao vs Shane Moseley -- $75,000,000, May 2011
  10. Oscar De La Hoya vs Felix Trinidad -- $64,000,000, Sept. 1999

MMAmania.com will deliver LIVE round-by-round coverage of "Mayweather vs. Pacquiao" on fight night, starting with the pay-per-view (PPV) broadcast at 9 p.m. ET RIGHT HERE.

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