What time does the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight start?
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Saturday’s fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao is a mega-event, many years in the making, worth hundreds of millions of dollars for both boxers. It’s a brawl that will define their careers: The sport will see Mayweather and Pacquiao differently when the fight is over.

But first the fight has to start. And no one has any idea when that’s going to happen.

To figure out what time Saturday’s main event might start we looked at Mayweather and Pacquiao’s last 10 fights. Here’s what we learned: The fight will almost certainly begin after 12 a.m. ET. How much after, however, is a question that’s impossible to answer.

Mayweather and Pacquiao’s previous bouts have begun as early as approximately 11:09 p.m. ET. But their most hyped fights were also the most delayed. The opening bell in Mayweather’s bout against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez in 2013 was rung around 12:36 a.m. The start times of boxing’s biggest nights also hint at how incredibly strange this sport can be. On the night of Pacquiao’s first fight against Timothy Bradley in 2012, for example, the undercard was over when there was a slight logistical problem: Pacquiao was busy watching the end of a Boston Celtics playoff game and nobody wanted to bother him.




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