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Try to make ends meet Try to find some money then you die." The hit song by British band The Verve is playing on the car radio as we drive into Pazardzhik, a small town just over an hour from Bulgaria's capital city Sofia. The lyrics are poignant because we're here to interview a man who's no stranger to life's ups and downs -- a former Olympian who was on top of his game a year before "Bitter Sweet Symphony" was near the top of the charts. Heading into Atlanta '96, his third Olympic Games, Serafim Todorov was at his peak as a boxer. Supremely confident, talented and experienced, the 27-year-old cruised through to the featherweight semifinals, where he faced a teenage American. Todorov says he underestimated his opponent and quickly realized that Floyd Mayweather was a "really good" boxer. Still, the Bulgarian won by a point in a controversial decision that sparked U.S. protests -- and the referee initially raised the American's glove. ...

No? Ah, well then you might have a problem.Yes, while most of the tickets for the highly-anticipated clash have sold out, there are still some floating around on secondary sites with ringside seats going at crazy money.A ticket at ringside will cost you $180,000 -- a knockout price which might have you seeing stars.As of lunchtime Friday, the most expensive seat on sale through the StubHub website, was retailing for a mammoth $128,705 but has since skyrocketed.Tickets were released last Thursday, just eight days before one of the biggest fights in history after legal wrangling between the two camps.However only around 1,000 were available to the general public, the rest of the estimated 16,500 tickets split between the fighters' camps and the casino as well as promoters and sponsors.Not long after some were made available on resale websites at a mark up that could only be dreamed about even by the sharpest financial trader.Those at the lower end of the eye-watering scale -- priced ...