On May 2, 2015, many people tuned in for “The Fight of the Century” involving Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao.
The match generated 5.8 million event related tweets, which included a wide range of tweets from our favorite artists.
Some were just excited about the fight
While everybody is tweeting about boxing, I will tweet something too…GO MANNY
— Arty (@arty_music) May 3, 2015
Fight Night! — Eric Prydz (@ericprydz) May 2, 2015
Dope! “let’s get fucked up” and my “COCO remix” were both played at Mayweather & Pacquiao fight! @LilJon @otgenasis
— MAKJ (@MAKJ) May 3, 2015
I know absolutely nothing about boxing and I’m not watching but for whatever reason I’m still rooting for Pacquiao ???? — Zedd (@Zedd) May 3, 2015
my money is on Floyd, but Mayweather might beat him still #FloydVsMayweather
— Flux Pavilion (@Fluxpavilion) May 2, 2015
Turns out Knife Party was actually in Pacquiao’s motherland
being in the Philippines right now is epic — Gareth Knife Party (@Garethmcgrillen) May 3, 2015
they have an actual cock fight on another channel here in the Philippines to watch while waiting for this to start LOL
— Gareth Knife Party (@Garethmcgrillen) May 3, 2015
Steve Angello and Gareth Emery thought about bootleg options
Anywhere they stream the fight? — Steve Angello (@SteveAngello) May 3, 2015
That’s not the issue.. I’m in a car in my way to a show in Brazil. Impossible to get my HBO account going https://t.co/bjQAc4PDdA
— Steve Angello (@SteveAngello) May 3, 2015
I totally shouldn’t ask this but fuck it. Does anyone have a working no registration stream for the fight? — Gareth Emery (@garethemery) May 3, 2015
BTW I happy would pay for PPV but it ain’t available in my Vegas hotel room.
— Gareth Emery (@garethemery) May 3, 2015
A few were severely disappointed
There’s no heart when it’s about the money. — Laidback Luke (@LaidbackLuke) May 3, 2015
Glad I didn’t pay to watch that fight
— The Chainsmokers (@TheChainsmokers) May 3, 2015
You have just witnessed the death of boxing — Dillon Francis (@DillonFrancis) May 3, 2015
What a joke. Boxing is a mess.
— Markus Schulz (@MarkusSchulz) May 3, 2015
Everyone else was just straight clownin’
pic.twitter.com/Twkhg4dGb0 — floyd baeweather (@diplo) May 3, 2015
Pacquiao definitely needs someone to lean on.
— DJ SNAKE (@djsnake) May 3, 2015
Girls be like “I need a boyfriend like Mayweather. Just hugs me when we fight.” — Kennedy Jones (@KennedyJonesTHO) May 3, 2015
Seen better fights on worldstar.
— Booty Monsta (@Borgore) May 3, 2015
Multiple other EDM artists such as Calvin Harris, Afrojack, and Dash Berlin attended the fight. However, the overall sentiment was that the Vegas club afterparties were much more exciting than the match itself.
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