- Floyd Mayweather will go toe-to-toe with rival Manny Pacquaio on May 2
- The winner will be presented with either a diamond or platinum belt
- Mayweather has put his WBC world welterweight title on the line
- Pacquaio will lose his WBO championship if he loses against Mayweather
The winner
of the richest fight of all time will walk away with the most expensive
belt in ring history on the night of May 2 in Las Vegas.
Floyd Mayweather Jnr or Manny Pacquiao will be presented with a belt either studded with diamonds or made of platinum.
WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman is commissioning a million dollar version of his organisation’s fabled green strap.
He says: ‘This is a fight of the greatest magnitude and we must commemorate the occasion with something special.
‘A final decision between diamonds and platinum will be made shortly.’
Mayweather
and Pacquiao are already guaranteed the highest purses ever paid to
prize-fighters, minimum totals of $150million (£97m) to the Money Man
and $100m (£65m) to the Pacman.
Two normal belts will be at stake, with Mayweather’s WBC world welterweight title and Pacquiao’s WBO championship on the line.
Ringside
tickets at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, face value almost $6,000
(£3,890) are now trading on the black market – or secondary market as it
is known in America – for upwards of $100,000 (£65,000).
Mayweather is already at work at his gym in his home city of Vegas.
Pacquiao,
has started light training in his native Philippines – including one of
his entertaining appearances as there as the world’s shortest
basketball professional – and is expected to leave for trainer Freddie
Roach’s Wild Car gym in Los Angeles this weekend.
Roach,
newly elected as Trainer of the Year in the US for a record seventh
time, will follow next weekend after working the corner in Macau for the
first world flyweight title bid by China’s Beijing gold medal idol Zou
Shiming.
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