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21st Feb 2015

Pic: Finally! Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao take to social media to confirm their fight

We've been waiting a long time for this...

Eoghan Doherty

This is huge.

Admit it, this fight is even bigger than the time you went head-to-head handbags with Dermot Murphy behind the school bus stop in 1998.

We’re still smarting.

It’s finally been confirmed; Floyd Mayweather Jr. is taking on Manny Pacquiao on May 2, 2015, in a welterweight bout at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas.

It’s a fight the public has been calling for since 2009 and pits two of the finest boxers of their generation against each other in what will undoubtedly be a gargantuan cash cow event historic event.

The two men took to social media to confirm the fisticuffs.

It’s now or never…

Mayweather 2

Ding ding.