article_snippet.sent: Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao will be the biggest fight of all time financially and the most significant THE CENTURY.
article_snippet.sent: Evaluating the greatest ever fights is a complex variable of several factors including not only the quality and excitement of the action but the political, social and cultural undertones, the scale of expectation and outside influences.
article_snippet.sent: Where Money Man vs PacMan comes to rank among the most important fights in ring history will depend upon what happens that coming night in the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
article_snippet.sent: In this, the third in a series of 12 fights that shaped boxing history, I look back on one of the most anticipated events of the 20th century which divided a nation.
article_snippet.sent: THE SECOND FIGHT OF THE CENTURY .
article_snippet.sent: but it was the reason for that decision which added cultural significance to what was to be a magnificent fight.
article_snippet.sent: There was a foretaste of the current scramble for Mayweather-Pacquaio tickets.
article_snippet.sent: Author Norman Mailer reported on the fight.
article_snippet.sent: This was one fight in which the action fully lived up to the hype and the action place in history.
highlights_snippet.sent: Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao's fight will be the richest ever .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Sportsmail's Jeff Powell is counting down the ring's most significant fights .
  