Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao: Kind-hearted Pacquiao to spend $4m on tickets for his family and friends

He may be in the main event, but he still had to shell out for tickets

Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao pose with a WBC championship belt (Getty Images)

Kind-hearted Manny Pacquiao will spend $4m (£2.6m) on tickets for his entourage for Saturday's super-fight against Floyd Mayweather, even though he is one half of the main event.

With tickets for the £300m showdown at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas at a premium and selling for hundreds of thousands in the resale market, Pacquiao has had to shell out millions of his own money for his 900-strong entourage.

Fewer than 1,000 tickets for the fight were made available for the general public and sold out within minutes of going on sale last week.

Pacquiao will be defending his WBO welterweight title, and aiming to win Mayweather's WBC and WBA welterweight titles.

Pacquiao's Bob Arum has even claimed that he paid $10,000 (£6,468) for his ringside seat and that the fighter will pay in the region of $3-4m for 900 tickets.

The contest at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas is expected to generate more than £300m for the pair, with the split going 60/40 in Mayweather's favour.

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Mayweather, 38, is an 11-time, five-weight world champion, while the Filipino Pacquiao, 36, has won versions of the world title at a record eight different weights.

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The fight will be broadcast on Sky Sports Box Office for UK viewers. The fight will cost £19.95 to purchase on Box Office, and will cost an additional £2 booking fee for those who book on the day.