After taking a bit of a break on here, welcome everyone to May and to this Special Edition of DC SocialPulse with me, DC Cueva. If you check out this site regularly, you often come here for the action, reaction and interaction of the MTV Trifecta of The Real World, The Challenge and Are You The One?, and occasionally other events too. But today, with our coverage of the latest season having wrapped up a little while ago and with a Forum debrief still to come here, we will focus in on that fourth option, and something that will be the talk of the world coming up tomorrow night.
We are now only hours away from, outside of Super Bowl Sunday, what will be the most-exciting single day in sports in a very long time. And we're a day away from its marquee event, whose countdown to it began in earnest 70 days ago today, exactly ten weeks ago as we post this on Friday, May 1st.
Friday, February 20, 2015 marked a milestone in the sport of boxing, when a post on a relatively new social media platform confirmed the news to both fans of the fight game and casual sports fans alike that they had awaited for a long time. That would be of Floyd Mayweather posting a picture on his partially-owned social network Shots of a document confirming his long-awaited fight against Manny Pacquiao, a dream matchup that has been on everyone's minds in boxing for upwards of six years. There had been numerous hurdles that stood in the way of the two biggest fighters of their generation from meeting one another, until a chance meeting at a Miami Heat game changed everything and paved the way for the fight to finally be given a go.
In every retrospect, Mayweather-Pacquiao will be the most lucrative boxing and combat sports event in history, with records expected to be broken in every which way - from pay-per-view sales and the live gate to merchandise and an enormous economic impact on Las Vegas; not to mention a prize purse that will easily number into the hundreds of millions of dollars. All parties involved - promoters, two rival premium TV networks, the MGM Grand Hotel - have put in time and effort to make it happen, and now only the main event is only one day away. And that's only part of a super sports Saturday that will also feature America's greatest horse race, baseball's fiercest rivalry, a Game 7 and much more.
Ahead here, we'll bring you the social media reaction from Twitter and beyond from executives, fellow fighters, media and of course the two combatants as they reacted to the news that became official on a Friday afternoon that set forth into motion perhaps the most-anticipated year for the sport of boxing in a generation. For those who visit this site regularly, this will be presented in the style that's made DC SocialPulse well known to MTV fans in bringing loyal blog readers all the reaction from the shows that get fans talking. And after social media's reaction, we'll offer a lengthy essay on the road that eventually brought Floyd & Manny together, what it means to a sport on the verge of a renaissance, and how the night of the fight may be the single biggest day of sports in the social media age.
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