Cowboys Stadium will welcome one of the most anticipated fights of 2010 with the match up between Manny Pacquiao and Joshua Clottey, March 13.
The match will be the first boxing event hosted at Cowboys Stadium
The ring will be right over these two stars, the screen will be right over the ring, and around the world no one will be able to get over Cowboys Stadium.
About two billion international viewers around the globe could tune in to the March 13 WBO welterweight title fight between
Manny Pacquiao and Joshua Clottey at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium.
HBO Pay-Per-View has the right with the event to broadcast in the United States but will be aired free of charge across much of the world (hope so). Seating configurations inside the stadium are expected to hold 40,000 live spectators approximately. Jones said the global audience is stunning for the fight, stunning for the sport, and stunning for the Cowboys and their world-class attraction.
The Stadium's owner Jones, a fight fan who said he had been to some 20 championship bouts over the years, including Ali-Spinks and Hagler-Hearns, would like to make Cowboys Stadium one of the premier venues for boxing. Pacquiao-Clottey is the first of what Jones hopes will be many big-name matches underneath the world's largest high-definition screen had come in the spotlight. It is something like a major concert event that will pull a lot of audiences live and of those watching on their Screen Monitor.
Pacquiao is a hero icon in the Philippines. Ranked as the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the sport by ESPN.com and The Ring Magazine, he has a record of 50-3-2 in his career, with 38 wins coming by TKO. The former welterweight champion Clottey, born in Ghana, is 35-3 as a professional, with 21 knockouts.
The two brawlers said they are excited for the opportunity to perform inside the world's finest sports venue clinging for a great title. Tuesday's announcement ended with the two donning Cowboys jerseys, and Pacquiao trying on one of Jones' Super Bowl rings.
Jones, who has originally attempted and tried to bring a proposed fight between Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. to Cowboys Stadium, which is totally dead for now, was more than pleased to still bring in boxing's top draw, Pacquiao.
A lot of the fans certainly would want to be a part of the first professional boxing match at the stadium. It will surely make some history to have the fight at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium and Jones will going to make the most out of it.
