This fight has set a new attendance record for a boxing event with 70,000 tickets sold!
By Gareth A Davies 11:43PM GMT 09 Nov 2010
Pacquiao, elected to Congress in The Philippines earlier this year, faces Antonio Margarito at light-middleweight at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium on Saturday night.
Seventy thousand tickets have been sold. Tens of millions will watch his fight around the world. Pacquiao enjoys a level of idolatry bordering obsession at home, yet in the US, he represents the first Asian sports star to cross into the mainstream in the United States.