Pacquiao could make $20 million if Mosley fight reaches 1 million PPV buys

By Boxing News - 01/09/2011 - Comments

By Michael Lieberman: Manny Pacquiao is going to make a killing from his May 7th fight against 39-year-old Shane Mosley regardless of whether it does good numbers on pay-per-view. If the fight does less than 1 million PPV buys, Pacquiao will make no less than $15 million, according o news from philstar.com. However, if the fight does better and goes over the 1 million mark like many of Pacquiao’s have been recently, he will make as much as $20 million for what appears to be a horrible mismatch against the shot-looking Mosley.

Pacquiao, his promoter Bob Arum and trainer Freddie Roach don’t think Mosley is shot and still claim he’s a dangerous opponent, capable of winning. Obviously, it’s in their best interest to try and sell this fight and make it appear more competitive than what it appears to be on paper. It is nice that Pacquiao will get a huge payday even if the fight turns out to be a dreadful fight to watch from a fans perspective.

If you look at Mosley’s last two fights against Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Sergio Martinez, there’s nothing there that would suggest that Mosley will be dangerous or even competitive with Pacquiao. Against both Mora and Mayweather, Mosley looked tired and old, missing often and just looking gassed at times. These were fights in which Mosley really wasn’t pushed in any real way, yet he still looked like he had run marathon very early in the fight.

Mosley looked too small to be in the ring with Mora, and you have to lay some blame on his matchmakers for putting that fight together in the first place. But Mosley still looked tired and old in that fight, and not like a fighter that still has his skills intact. So now that Mosley is fighting Pacquiao, we’re supposed to assume that Mosley has suddenly found the fountain of youth and will have the chance to beat him? I don’t think so. This fight seems more like a big payday opportunity for Pacquiao and a chance for Mosley to get a golden parachute to go into retirement and ease his financial debts.



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