Adding global prestige to a local brawl is always a smart marketing strategy - only last weekend New Plymouth's promising 10-1 light heavyweight Sam Rapira lifted an equally vacant IBO Asia Pacific title on a card promoted by his own marketing company.
Away from the machinations of who-promotes-who, the very crux of why it took five years of arguments and lawsuits to get Mayweather and Pacquiao's names on the same contract, the general public simply want two name fighters to go at each other.
Therefore, no harm in baiting Berridge a little bit by asking him which IBO belt was better - Oceania or Asia Pacific - given geographically it's the same area.
"I'm not sure what titles are worth more," he smiled.
So, Rapira vs Berridge stays on the backburner ... for now.
For a media conference, I must admit that wearing my standard issue purple and pink business shirt with khaki pants, I stood out like a sore thumb among all the jeans and black muscle T-shirts.
In fact, beside myself and event MC Jason Granville, the former More FM jock, you were left with the impression that the Fourth Estate was the least represented entity in the room.
The grilling switched from the fighters and went right on Granville.
Why, he was asked in a voice raised to catch my earshot, does the Wanganui District Council do "nothing" to support Akira Events in its big shows like HoopNation and Rise of the Fallen?
Granville may be "finding his feet" at the council, as he said, but he's certainly picked up the art of rolling the shoulders to deflect the blows. Playing to the room, he assured them he believed in what Akira was trying to do, that's why he turned up tonight, but his voice around the WDC table still needed time to gain traction.
Promoters KJ Allen and Paul Berridge smoothly interceded to announce they had invited Mayor Annette Main to attend the show, although the boys admitted they had left it a little late for her to RSVP. The cut and thrust of gaining public favour.
On to Friday and the weigh-ins at Majestic Square, where Paul Berridge had said they were going to attract a crowd of at least 250.
Agreed - at 1pm on a Friday in downtown Wanganui you could possibly get that many people loitering around on their lunchbreak.
The corporate fighters take their turn first, but the word has gone around that the weight difference between the combatants in one of the women's matchups may be larger than the permitted 3kg for sanctioning.
Yet, despite rumours of different numbers put up that morning, the official scales have them at exactly that gap.
Eyebrows are raised but what the heck, it's white-collar boxing, not like the laundry list of demands the undefeated Mayweather made Pacquiao sign off.
Seriously, at that level, "Money's" requests go so extreme you almost half expect him to add a "no punching in the face" stipulation to the red tape.
There is a price to be paid for setting up your own promotion on the smell of an oily rag in a small town.
All this week I've heard every kind of grumble - sponsors having to pay after they're already involved, this promotional photo not getting to that office in time, surprise that extra complimentary tickets are not more forthcoming for the variously entitled.
None of this tall-poppy stuff should overshadow the fact Berridge and co have done exactly as advertised - brought the biggest boxing event to Wanganui ever. And if the fun and games in the ring can match what's been seen in the buildup, we're in for a hell of a good night.
