Tickets just part of night’s expense

? What would a mega sporting event be without mega-priced merchandise?

A huge table of goods greeted fans at the entrance of the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday night for the fight between Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather Jr.

The lowest-priced items were a teddy bear ($20), T-shirts from $25 to $30 and fleece pullovers and jackets for $70 each.

Towels to wipe away the tears after plunking down thousands of dollars for a regularly priced ticket were $40, and commemorative boxing gloves to punch out your ticket broker for charging such exorbitant prices went for $40 to $150.

But that’s just the start. A cool $250 got you a hardbound commemorative program, and one large (that’s $1,000 in gambling-speak) got you the same program with De La Hoya’s signature.

For $250, you could get a framed photograph of De La Hoya in action, and for $375, you could get a commemorative leather jacket (at least, it looked like leather).

Vincent Coursol, 46, traveled from Montreal to see the fight. He bought more than $1,300 worth of merchandise to take back home to family and friends.

Coursol said he was unable to buy tickets for the fight when they went on sale Jan. 27 – the fight was sold out in two hours. He admitted he paid $10,000 for his ticket, 13 rows from ringside.

“A fight like this happens in once, maybe, 20 years,” Coursol said. “You have to see that, you have to be there.”