Is Arum denying Pacquiao the Marquez and Mayweather fights?
January 16th, 2012
By Ellis Belither: It has become pretty clear over recent weeks that Top Rank CEO Bob Arum is not interested in putting his No.1 fighter and money-maker WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao in the ring against Floyd Mayweather Jr. any time soon. This is probably a wise decision if Arum wishes to continue to gain maximum revenue from Pacquiao’s fights.
Has Arum been super clever and managed to avoid the two fighters his cash cow has a good chance of losing against just so he can gain another purse or two before throwing him in with Mayweather? Because that fight is now looking like an end of year match up, which if Manny does lose, will never make Arum the same kind of money ever again.
In my opinion Arum should of let his fighter have Mayweather this May all excuses aside and cash in on one more big purse from Manny before moving on to younger boxers. Neither Floyd or Pac are getting any younger and I only see this fight getting less appealing to Money, and fight fans as time wears on.
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Let’s go back to when this all began. Mayweather and his team sits down with Arum and Pacquiao’s advisers to negotiate the fight. Arum discusses Pacquiao’s demands. 1)Glove size, 2)Ring size, 3)Pay and 4)Million dollar penalty for each pound Mayweather is overweight. Floyd agrees to this and signs the contract. Mayweather demands 1)Random blood test. This is even before the steroid speculation. Arum agrees and says Pacquiao will sign. Freddy Roach confirms that Pacquiao will sign. They take it to Pacquiao and he says NO, I will not sign. There’s been 2 contracts and only 1 signature on any of them and that’s Mayweather’s. I don’t get how this mess is Mayweather’s fault or how he is the coward. Just saying!
@Anonymous
Pacfraud wanted 10 million for every lb over 1.47. Not new 1to million
Pacquiao demands:
1. whatever Arum says
2. sue Mayweather to avoid fight
3. one million dollars weight penalty
4. must choose ring size
5. must choose glove size
6. run from negotiations to avoid fight
7. won’t take RBT
8. scared of needles
9. claims giving blood makes him weak
10.needs a year to heal from a stiches
11.wants $80 million dollars to fight Mayweather
12.wants a bigger arena to fight Mayweather
13.wants Mayweather to secure guaranteed money,
14.can’t be ready for May 5th if Mayweather, anybody else, yes
15.will only agree to testing in my country
16.whatever Arum says
17.whatever Arum says
18.whatever Arum says
Arum = The Greedy
Roach = The Phoney
Pacquiao = The Fraud
To fight them, you have to be dishonest like they are, willing to put up with stalled negotiations, come to terms and agreements that favor them like almost pushing 40 or a catch-weight fight, and only be willing to hear what Pacquiao the puppet will do through his puppet master Arum.
LMAO at the fact that Filipinos are being told what to think by an 80yo wrinkled WhiteMan.
2x LMAO at the fact that Filipinos are too stupid to realize that they’re even doing it.
keep your mouth shut ,,all of you
PAcquiao is scared to death. its cute
why doesnt mayweather take on Robert Guerrero, the ghost is an intelligent fighter and has great technique he would give mayweather problems.
both Marquez and Morales were/are past there prime and still managed to give pacquiao a boxing lesson.
LOL, Neegropinos in serious denial mode.
LMAO when Fat Dan Rafeal and even worthless Jim Rome are mocking your little Coward Congressman.
I am glad the coward floyd’s hype is OVER.
Arum = The Money
Roach = The Genius
Pacquiao = The Fists
To fight them, you have to be fair, willing to sit down and come to terms and agreements, not just by twitter.
@mozzie,
My friend, joe “the cheater” cortez? AhAhAh…Now we know ONE BIG REASON WHY this fight does not happen. Pacquioa will have to fight both floyd and joe, except with joe Pac cannot use his fists.
sign the contract ape,if u have the balls
Quiet little Filipino children.
The Men are speaking here.
Mayweather demands
1. I want 100 million
2. Pac must train in the US
3. I pick the date and the venue
4. I want RBT that is not requierd by the boxing asociation
5. Pac must enter the arena first
6. 16oz Gloves
7. Big ring
8. Cortez as ref.
9. Did I mention I want 100 million??
10. I and rookie promotions want to promote the fight.
11. No philipino judges
Not much to ask for, I wonder y Arum is not interested!!
Conclusion:
Arum hates Mayweather jr. and Mayweather jr. also hates Arum. They don’t want to talk to each other nor do business together. Period.
What mayweather jr has been doing for the past several weeks was clearly to fight with his MOUTH, not with his fists, to hype up his May 5th fight. Period.
lmao, “the MGM Grand is too small.”
Is that why 5 of Pac’s last 7 fights have been at the MGM Grand?
Ellis Billeir you know why Floyd dont want to fight pacman on may 5 the mgm arena is so small could mayweather get a good pay if the fight in the mgm they need to have a stadium for the mega fight. so floyd choose the mgm so that he cannot fight pacman.
manny is done, manny are doubting him to fight floyd after how marquez embarrased him.. they dotn want to fight floyd right now.t hey waitin for him to get locked up and without trainin so they can try to fight in november, how pathetic
What WhiteMan ™ say, Filipino must obey.
@MsPacman: Of what you’ve mentioned to those bad people in the Philippines, i think the scared and coward Floyd Jr also belong to them.Bwahahahahaha!
Arum starting to make me feel physically sick.
He’s got like 2 fights left after June and none of them are going to be against the dudes yall just mentioned.
@trev.
and rematch with hatton and clottey. after then. jorge arce, david diaz, oscar larios, Fahsan Por Thawatchai, and finaly the retirement fight with morales.
after manny fights bradley and cotto again i hope he has a rematch with margarito after that mosely that would be good aye
singson is drug dealer, bobby pacquiao is a drug user, pacquaio is wife cheater and liar, what else?
philippines president, mother and son aquino killer, gloria macapagal killer, estrada smugglers. what else?
The only chance for the scared and coward Floyd jr is to fight Guerrero ro even Morales.That’s the only way he can earn money now.Pacman would like to apologize to everybody that he won’t fight coward Floyd Jr bcoz he chooses the good,humble,respectable,no trash talker boxers.They really deserve to earn big money rather than the convicted criminal.It’s somewhat a punishment for coward Floyd Jr,ok?Bwahahahahaha!
unca rajah
are you lost your mind? lemme correct your bird brain. mayweather is 10x richer than pacquiao.
The only way to stop Bob Arum from hiding from Floyd is to STOP BUYING
TOP RANK PPV FIGHTS, Let him know that the in house fights that he CONTROL
WITH BUMS FIGHTING BUMS AINT GONE MAKE HIM MONEY, IT WONT TAKE
NOTHING BUT ONE OR TWO FIGHTS FOR HIS MONEY TO CHANGE
Arum is just doing his job…getting the best deal for Pacman. Pacman is richer than lil floyd.
@Keep it 100
what the hell are you talking about. people would pay just to see him lose? are you retarder.
i thought mayweather is boring fighter then why could they burn their money for watching a borign fight?
non-sense straight hater without a fact. just run your common sense.
Hey “the boxer”, Pac may lose to Money but I bet he’ll look a damn sight better in the ring than that sorry excuse for a counter-punching bag Marquez did… Whom by the way Pac beat twice already. Sure the third fight should have been a SD for Pac or at worst a draw but it’s only fair from the TRUE robbery Pac got from the clemens fella who scored the first round of their 36 rounds wrong. Did team Pac protest it? Hell no they took it like champs and went on to beat him the next time around. Morales won but the asian dude’s who KO’d him fought a different Pac…
Bob the Job,is TOP RANK’S(MOB)BOSS. MANNY is the FAMILY’S biggest hustle. Nobody interferes with the FAMILY’S (MONEY) HUSTLE. And i mean,nobody.
Its more of a risk for mayweather. Theres alot of boxing fans that watch floyd just to see if he’ll be beaten not for his fighting style. Pacquiao on the other hand is watched because of his offensive style. Its either try n fight or run. I kno alot of people that would still pay to watch pac after a loss before mayweather after a loss.
Quit running from Mayweather and Marquez. Did u know Pacman lost once to Morales, 3 times to Marquez and got ko’d by a straweight and Mayweather would outbox him WITH EASE.
mannys hype is over..