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Tampa Bay Lightning Give City
Mayweather- Pacquiao Eclipses 4.4 Million PPV Buys, $72M Gate
FLOYD MAYWEATHER And MANNY PACQUIAO
The Floyd May- weather-Manny Pacquiao fight on May 2 officially de- stroyed all-time boxing records for pay-per-view buys, pay-per-view revenue and live gate -- just some of the numerous financial records shattered by the rich- est fight in the sport's history.
According to initial figures released Tuesday by Show- time and HBO, more than 4.4 million pay-per-view telecasts of the Mayweather-Pac- quiao fight were purchased in the United States, generat- ing more than $400 million in revenue.
Those figures nearly dou- bled the previous record for PPV buys and more than dou- bled the mark for highest PPV revenue.
Also, the Nevada State Athletic Commission an- nounced Tuesday that the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight generated $72,198,500 from the sale of 16,219 tickets at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
The blockbuster welter- weight title unification fight, more than five years in the making, may have been a dud in the ring as Mayweather outboxed Pacquiao for a unanimous decision but it was a gargantuan commercial success.
The deal between the camps called for May- weather to earn 60 percent of the revenue and for Pac- quiao's side to receive 40 percent. With such a massive pay-per-view total, they will both earn millions more than initially expected.
Mayweather could earn $250 million, with Pacquiao set to make more than $120 million.
"Floyd is going to make a lot of money," said Ellerbe, who was at a loss for any other words on the topic.
The event will easily soar past $500 million in total rev- enue, making it by far the richest fight in boxing history.
Additional fight revenue included:
• A record of approxi- mately $40 million from in- ternational television rights from 175 countries.
Golfer Could Reunite With Ex-Wife,
Something To Cheer About
Elin Nordegren After Splitting With
The Tampa Bay Lightning eliminated the Montreal Canadians in Game 6 to move on to the Eastern Conference Final.
A pair of goals from Nikita Kucherov and 18 saves from Ben Bishop helped guide them to a 4-1 victory. The win sends Tampa to their first conference final since 2011. It also extends their impressive streak of not losing three or more games in a row this entire season.
The Lightning now wait to see if they will be playing the
Lindsey Vonn, Reports Claim
Lightning win to advance to Eastern Conference Fi- nals.
New York Rangers or Wash- ington Capitals with a Stanley Cup Final berth on the line.
Tiger Woods is a single man after he reportedly broke-up with girlfriend Lindsey Vonn, but some think the golf star may soon end up with an unlikely re- bound — his former wife, Elin Nordegren.
Reports emerged this week that Woods and Vonn broke up after Tiger con- fessed his infidelity in cou- ple’s therapy. Sources said Vonn simply walked out of the session and called off the relationship with Tiger.
This is not the first time that rumors have connected Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren. Several times over the past few months, there have been rumors of a reunion, including last year when Elin built a miniature golf course as part of her new $12.2 million estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
TIGER WOODS
Tiger and Elin main- tained a good relationship for the sake of their kids, and in the past, Elin has said the re- lationship goes no further than that.
But other sources indi- cated that Lindsey Vonn was growing uncomfortable at the relationship between Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren, and was fearful that Tiger might one day leave her to return to his ex- wife. With both Tiger and Elin single, that is now a pos- sibility.
NFL Suspends Tom Brady For 4 Games
NEW YORK -- The NFL has suspended Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady without pay for the first four games of the season, fined the New England Patriots $1 million and taken away two draft picks as punishment for de- flating footballs used in the AFC title game, the league said in a statement Monday.
The NFL also indefinitely suspended the two equip- ment staffers believed to have carried out the plan, in- cluding one who called him- self "The Deflator."
Brady will miss the sea- son's showcase kickoff game Sept. 10 against Pittsburgh, Week 2 at Buffalo, a home game against Jacksonville and a game at Dallas.
He will return the week the Patriots face the Colts in Indianapolis.
The Patriots will also lose
Jameis Winston’s Legal Team
TOM BRADY
a first-round pick in 2016 and a fourth-round pick in 2017.
In a statement released Monday night, Patriots chair- man and CEO Robert Kraft criticized the investigation on which the punishment was based and said Brady had the team's "unconditional support" and that its "belief in him has not wavered."
On Tuesday morning, the Patriots changed their Twit- ter avatar to Brady's No. 12 jersey.
Account In Court Proceedings
To Use Accuser’s Twitter
After filing a countersuit against his rape accuser Erica Kinsman, it has been reported that Jameis Win- ston’s attorney intends on using tweets from her Twitter account against her to prove his case.
In the lawsuit filed by Erica Kinsman against Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston, his attor- ney will use evidence of things Kinsman said on Twitter in the months after the sexual encounter with Winston that she contends was rape. Per a source with knowledge of the situation, it will show in the pending litigation, tweets from Kinsman in which she roots for the Florida State team for which Winston served as the starting quarter- back and star player.
It’s believed that Kins- man will argue that she went to Florida State games as part of her therapy for the alleged rape. Which means that Win- ston’s lawyers will be looking for the therapist who believed it would be helpful to Kins- man to attend games featur- ing her alleged rapist, and to
ERICA KINSMAN And JAMEIS WINSTON
cheer for him.
As the litigation unfolds,
there could be more evidence like this. Which eventually could cause Kinsman’s case to crumble.
The fact that some tweets could end up being the thing that makes Kinsman’s case against Winston fall apart will hopefully put an end to this saga.
It is interesting that an al- leged rape victim could still find a way to handle rooting for a team that her alleged rapist is the star of. You would think that she wouldn’t want to see him at all or see any- thing that she could associate him with so that she wouldn’t open old wounds. But, per- haps for once and for all the truth will set both of them FREE.
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