Mayweather vs Pacquiao tickets finally go on sale just 10 days before mega-fight

FILE - Floyd Mayweather Jr (left) and Manny Pacquiao. Photo / AP.

At last it's on. Not only the Fight of the Century but the sale of tickets for Floyd Mayweather versus Manny Pacquiao.

The desert storm in a box office which some thought might pull the plug on the richest fight of all time has blown over.

Those priceless tickets were going on sale today after weeks of wrangling and accusations between Mayweather Promotions and Pacquiao's promoter Bob Arum.

This thorny matter was settled at a meeting between Arum, Mayweather's advisor Al Haymon and CBS television mogul Les Moonves who brokered the deal for the fight itself.

The issues over the number of tickets, credentials and hotel rooms to be made available to each camp were all resolved.

Since this required a separate contract with the MGM there was speculation that the fight might be in jeopardy.

In reality May 2 in the Grand Garden Arena was always going to take place.

Even Arum, angered as he was by delays he blamed on the Mayweather side for making the tickets release far later than for any big fight ever, had said: 'There's too much at stake for the plug to be pulled.

Like half-billion dollars which it is now expected to generate, with Mayweather and Pacquiao set to bank at least $180 million and $120 million dollars respectively,

Arum adds: 'All the matters have been agreed and the contract is being drawn up.'

The vast majority of the 16,500 tickets were always destined to be parcelled up between the two promoters, the two cable networks sharing the pay-per-view broadcast and the MGM hotel group for their clients and high rollers.

Only a token 1,000 seats were going on public sale, at between $1,500 and $7,500 each.

But none for the super-ringside tickets costing $10,000. There are reports that those seats will exchanged hands on 'the alternative market' for upwards of $200,000.

-DAILY MAIL