Manny Pacquiao Uses Fight Tickets to Help Purchase $12.5M Beverly Hills Mansion

Manny Pacquiao connects on the decisive blow outside the ring just about as well as he does inside of it.

Pacquiao, who will meet Floyd Mayweather Jr. in a megafight on May 2, was looking to purchase a 10,000 square-foot mansion in Beverly Hills. In addition to the $12.5 million asking price, he threw in four tickets to his bout against Mayweather to close the deal, according to Martin Rogers of USA Today.

"No doubt it helped," said Pacquiao's realtor, Elsa Nelson, according to Rogers. "The sellers are great fans of boxing and of Manny, so it was a big deal." 

The Filipino boxer and congressman knocked out two other bidders for the opulent pad that, according to Melissa Allison of Zillow (via Yahoo), was originally owned by Sean "Diddy" Combs.

Here is a look at the fully furnished mansion:

Pacquiao will undoubtedly be more comfortable while he is not in the gym training, and he'll have plenty of space to spread out. Rogers details how much Pacquiao likes to host and entertain guests while he's preparing for fights: "For while Mayweather largely shuts himself off from the world during training camp, surrounded in Las Vegas by only his devoted entourage, Pacquiao loves the myriad of distractions that infiltrate his daily life and claims to be energized by them."

Perhaps Pacquiao's investment of over $12.5 million will turn out to give him the edge he needs to finally put a blemish on Mayweather's record.