Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones Badly Wants Mayweather vs. Pacquiao At Cowboys Stadium

With apparent back channel negotiations already happening and working on the probable Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao super fight in 2015, one sports bigwig is also petitioning to have the said huge bout in his arena.

Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys in the National Football League (NFL) has recently declared that he wants to see the undefeated American and the eight-division Filipino champion to slug it out at the AT&T Stadium, or more popularly known as the Cowboys Stadium, in Arlington, Texas in the United States.

“Well, it’s well known that I would walk over and I guess have to get in some boat time too to get over and meet [boxing promoter Bob Arum] in China to get it done,” Jones said last via a Dallas radio station, 105.4 The Fan last Saturday a day before Pacquiao pummelled Chris Algieri in Macau, China. “I’d be that excited about the possibility. It’d be a great fight. It’s going to be contemporarily, it’ll be one of the greatest fights in the last 15 years when it does happen.”

If the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao happens at the AT&T Stadium, which is sometimes referred to as “Jerry’s World”, it will be the third time that Pacquiao will be fighting in the stadium that can seat 80,000—the largest stadium in the American Football league by seating capacity. The max capacity of the stadium, if the standing room only (SRO) capacity is considered, is 105,121.

In his first fight at the Cowboys Stadium, Pacquiao won via unanimous decision (UD) over Ghanaian Joshua Clottey, 120-108, 119-109 and 119-109 in front of 41,843 fans on March 13, 2010. The second Pacquiao bout in the Texas stadium had Pacquiao winning another UD victory, this time over Mexican Antonio Margarito, 119-109, 120-108 and 118-110 on Nov. 13, 2010 with 41,734 fans watching.

“It needs to be in our stadium and I want to be a part of, working with Bob, CBS of course is really involved in the promotion of it, and we’d love to just in any way have that fight here. It would be a real, well it’d just be an epic event for our stadium,” Jones added in the same radio show.

Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao is not a done deal by any means but like millions of boxing fans, Jerry Jones wants to see it happen and to watch it in his house.