When Floyd Mayweather versus Conor McGregor was announced for Las Vegas this year, the imaginations of fight fans ran wild…or completely dismissed it as a circus event.
Whether you were Team McGregor, in hope the Irish UFC sensation could pull off the ultimate sporting shock, or behind the Money Man, because how could possibly the finest boxer of his generation be toppled by a happy go lucky novice, you had an opinion.
Not one to miss out on the heat of the action, The Sportsman were quickly on hand to arrange travel to Sin City, not only for ourselves, but for two lucky fans, with free entry provided to a ‘lucky dip’ format.
Irish fans Craig Atkinson and Wayne Browne were the lucky names out of the hat, who got to travel to the gambling capital of the world, and then received the type of present that comes round once in a lifetime – tickets to the fight everyone was talking about.
Here’s what happened when The Sportsman and two fans went to Las Vegas.
