{"id":16245,"date":"2011-02-01T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/las-vegas-looking-to-cash-in-on-latest-pacquiao-fight\/"},"modified":"2011-02-01T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T11:58:00","slug":"las-vegas-looking-to-cash-in-on-latest-pacquiao-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/las-vegas-looking-to-cash-in-on-latest-pacquiao-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Looking to Cash in on Latest Pacquiao Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong> <\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nAfter his previous two bouts drew thousands of boxing fans to Cowboy Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Manny Pacquiao will make his Las Vegas return on May 7 in a showdown with Shane Mosely for the WBO welterweight championship.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOver the years Pacquiao has become one of boxing&rsquo;s biggest draws, but lately Vegas has been unable to cash in on his mass appeal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSince his last fight there in 2009, Sin City has been overlooked as promoters turned to bigger venues, booking Pacquiao in Arlington twice while flirting with a match in New York City&rsquo;s Yankee Stadium.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, it looks like Las Vegas is finally primed to cash in on the Pacquiao brand once again.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThree hours after tickets for the fight went on sale Monday, nearly 16,000 had been sold.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThat means just a precious few seats remain open at the MGM Grand which will host the event.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRemaining tickets are in the $300 or higher range, with the most expensive seats selling for $1,000.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2011\/feb\/01\/tickets-sell-fast-manny-pacquiaos-may-7-fight-mgm\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Las Vegas Sun<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After his previous two bouts drew thousands of boxing fans to Cowboy Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Manny Pacquiao will make his Las Vegas return on May 7 in a showdown with Shane Mosely for the WBO welterweight championship. Over the years Pacquiao has become one of boxing&rsquo;s biggest draws, but lately Vegas has been unable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}