For many sports fans and other viewers, the much-touted, much-advertised and much-hyped boxing bout between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao on May 3 in Las Vegas can be summed up with one word: BORING.
Tickets for the fight cost fans thousands of dollars, while showing the fight at restaurants and bars came with exorbitant fees.
Mayweather won, of course, after 12 of the dullest rounds in boxing history. The lacklustre night left many feeling shortchanged, a lesson that seems to have carried over into the realm of Myanmar’s bootleg DVD market, where copies of the fight aren’t flying off the shelves despite the fact that they cost $0.40.
“We had the DVDs the next day [May 4] but I’ve only sold six,” one street vendor told the Myanmar Times this week. “Myanmar people are not interested in watching Mayweather run around, they’re more interested in fighting.”
The vendor said locals prefer lethwei, Myanmar traditional boxing, where headbutts are allowed and victory means knocking your opponent out.
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