Today marks 57 days — eight weeks starting Saturday — until the highly-anticipated megafight between
Canelo Alvarez and
Terence Crawford for the Ring and undisputed super middleweight world titles at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada.
After an exclusive pre-sale went live for 24 hours Thursday, the tickets officially went live earlier Friday and
can be purchased by visiting ticketmaster.com.
Prices are fluctuating upwards of $250 in the 300 level to above $600, plus taxes and fees, in the 100-level ticket area but deals are already selling fast and the seat allocation is rapidly filling out, with a maximum of eight per person. Massive ringside packages cost in excess of $9,000.
Canelo, who turned 35 Thursday, has long ruled over the 168-pound division and is 10-0 in the weight class with countless world championship defences since 2011, where he beat Matthew Hatton to clinch his first world title at junior middleweight — the same weight Crawford most recently won a belt at, against then-unbeaten
Israil Madrimov in August.
Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) seeks to enhance his legacy further by becoming a four-weight world champion, little more than two years removed from the 37-year-old's last appearance at welterweight, where he unified the 147-pound division with a dominant ninth-round stoppage win over divisional rival Errol Spence Jr.
It's still two months away from the year's biggest card. No undercard bouts have been announced yet.
That will likely begin happening during August, though marquee names such as unified world bantamweight champion
Junto Nakatani and The Ring's No. 1-rated super middleweight contender
Christian Mbilli have been floated
as options to potentially feature as part of a bumper week in the sport.
His Excellency Turki Alalshikh has this week said there are potentially 20 fights across a three-day span as part of a lucrative supporting cast.
If you can't attend the card in person, it will be
screened live and exclusively on Netflix with more details that will follow closer to the date.