Schaefer: Arum is going to wait until Pacquiao is at the end of his career before matching him against Mayweather
January 28th, 2012
By Chris Williams: Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer seems to have completely given up on the idea of Bob Arum allowing his big money fighter WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. in May, June or even in November of this year.
Schaefer told RingTV writer Lem Sattersfield “The only time that Arum is going to put Pacquiao in with Floyd is when Pacquiao is at the end of his career. I think that’s going to be sometime in the second half of 2013. If Pacquiao keeps winning, that’s when I think that fight will happen.”
I disagree with Schaefer on his timeline for Pacquiao retiring, but I agree with the rest of it. Pacquiao seems to like fighting and making the money he’s getting for these mostly mismatches. He’s not going to retire next year with Arum putting him in against beatable fighters. I see Pacquiao hanging around until he starts getting beaten by the Top Rank stable guys that Arum is pitting him against.
When Pacquiao gets beaten by someone like Timothy Bradley, Lamont Peterson, Mike Jones, Miguel Cotto or Antonio Margarito, then he’ll look to get that cash out fight against Mayweather. The fight will make a fraction of what it could make now, but at least Pacquiao will be able to make good money in the other fights until he gets taken down by a young lion that will rip him to bits.
I already see the deterioration in Pacquiao’s game and it’s only matter of time before gets taken down at the back of the herd by one of the smaller lions. But if Arum sees Pacquiao struggle to beat whoever he faces next, you can bet that Arum will put Pacquiao in with weaker guys. I can see him going around the horn again for another fight against Margarito for a nice in house fight and maybe even Top Rank fighter Joshua Clottey one more time.
As far as fights in the welterweight division go, we could see Pacquiao fight guys like Kell Brook or maybe the WBA welterweight paper champion Vyachslav Senchenko. Believe me, Arum will start matching Pacquiao with progressively weaker opposition if he struggles to beat Timothy Bradley and wins another gift decision like the one he got in his last fight against Juan Manuel Marquez.
I do agree with Schaefer on Arum waiting until Pacquiao is at the very end of his career before putting him in with Mayweather. Arum will likely be so nice when that time comes and will probably bend over backwards just to get that last payday for his fighter. It’s going to happen just like Schaefer says it will, I hate to say.
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won’t Chris Williams be happy on this news … when Pacquiao is old .. he can have the luxury of bashing him as much as he wants to now … well .. i guess he is doing it right now anyways .. so this is old news to all …
The scared and coward Floyd Jr is a big,big shame in boxing.It’s also a big insult to the american people especially black americans.Can’t you imagine that they also have a black american who is scared and coward? Never happen before in boxing history.Coward Floyd Jr is the only one who made it.Bwahahahahahaha!
its 2012 yet nothing changes,you still hate,stronger than ever chris.fyi,cannabis and crystal meth are two different things,meth is for addicts,cannabis is for medication.swaggsurfbeezkneezz!
floydPED mayWEEDER shud really really! step up to the plate take the #1 P4P champ PAC’s offer nd he gets to prove the world wrong ’bout how PU**y he is! he gets he’s 50mil PAC get’s 50mil nd then some obviously. And the whole world will be happy like NAVY’s comin’ home from the sea for 2 nd half years sailing!! lol
right! So what is Arum waiting for? pacsteroids is there at the end of his career.
1SmoothDj your one cornball that so far gone is mentioning.
50 greatest boxer fighter at all time.pqcquiao number 16….floyd mayweather number 36…ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha….floydiots what can you say about this…..
what is arum gona do with that money anyway, HE ABOUT TO DIE, DUDE IS LIKE 100
true that pacquiao take the test pu-c and stop looking for catuchwegiht fighters
I’m not sure how Pac supportors can not see what is going on here… whatever the purse say 50/50 Pac receives less than 3% of it… guess who the money really goes too?!? Think?!? Floyd is smart not to take a deal… I wouldn’t want my money going to oil can snake Arnum!
If Pac was smart… he’d leave Top Rank just like previous fighers have… Arnum is almost as bad and Don King!
So Frustrated with this… If PBF offered you 40 million and you’re used to being paid less than 8 million, common sense says get that money and “Let’s Get Ready To Rumble”!! Because you will NEVER see a larger purse based on your pay history with Top Rank!
Cornballs on here comments are longer than article and nobody reads that, Floyd out sold to date way more ppv bouts than faag boy pac
It doesnt help that Mayweather is now trying to get too much money. It has to be 50/50 or itll just be an excuse to not fight.
Schaefer does not understand about why Manny has out sold PPV against Mayweather.
Peoples want to watch Manny fight regardless of whom he fight with because Manny aggressive style.
Manny will be out sold PPV against Mayweather even if Manny lost to Froid. If Froid loset to Manny and then Froid money machine will stop together.
Froid will give bone to Golden Boy if Super-fight is happened.
I thought Floyd even more greedy than Arum. He wants to offer Pac-man 40m and get about 120m…come on any promoter in this world is not fool enough to be fooled. 50/50 is what both deserve. BTW I hope and pray that Chris Williams learns to see things in a holistic manner before penning down any articles. It should never appears as if it is one sided as all the readers knows of every articles he wrote so far that is nothing and nothing negative about Floyd but only and only negative opinions about Manny and Bob. Let’s grow up guys! God bless!!
Pacman should learn how to dodge the white man. Its good for your health. He getting used,,, but he likes it.
Pacman fans want this dude to be president? He dont even run his own life, how the (you pick a word) he going to run a whole country?
Floyd and 50 should run train on pacman girl, put it on worldstar, by next week. Pacman wont have a choice but to fight then.
steroids is the only reason this fight aint happening. Pacman got a bad sack of dope, thats why he struggled with marquez. But I heard that barry bond stuff is back, so he should be straight.
ex-convict lil floyd may consider retiring.
Pacquiao struggled with a 40 year old Jr. Lightweight fighter with back problems. Floyd Mayweather has 10 Times the skill of JMM. This would be the biggest lopsided defeat in PPV history. The fans would then realize how much they were duped by Bob Arum into believing Pacquiao had any kind of skill.
Arum knows this…
im getting tired of these manny and floyd rumors, il beleive it when its confirmed and signed, but im losing interest with this fight everytime negotiations break down
@jeff 41
what’s wrong with you manny fought oscar 3got years after before manny mosely 1or year before manny and marquez 2fight years ago. Which pacfraud tried to wait out. Sorry that’s the facts.
@ BoBoVVanker
Your dementia ain’t getting any better lol.
pacquiao is waiting mayweather to lose before he can decide to fight him
Floyd has waited for all his opponents to reach over the hill and then fought them, such as Oscar, Mosley, Marquez, etc. He’s not fought any elite fighter at his prime. The cherry-picker-in-chief. The problem here is that he’s older than Pacman so can’t do this to Manny.
Pacman will take it over everything from floydie even his very own inner soul. hehehhe
Pacquiao just coasted along with marquez ’til 8rd and from 9-12rd just took it away from him. floidie knows this thats why he’s not fighting Pacquiao.
What deterioration?
Oh. You meant getting exposed by a 40yo lightweight.
That deterioration.
You see Pacquiao’s deterioration but why is it that floidie keep on running?
Floyd has to lose first.
It’s another excuses from the scared and coward Floyd Jr that he doesn’t want to have it 50-50 deal.And if Pacman agrees again for a 40% deal,then coward Floyd Jr will again makes another excuses.Can’t you understand guys? Don’t blame Arum for this failed negotation,it’s all coward Floyd’s fault. coward Floyd Jr is totally scared to Pacman bcoz he knows that he’ll lost to Pacman,ok?Bwahahahahaha!
pac-puppet IS at the end of his career.
this is why people are starting to turn there back on boxing and watching mma, i think pac man knows mayweathers too good for him, and may make him look very silly if they do box.
Show Me the Manny
thats bs all that has to happen for the pac and mayweather fight to happen is floyd agreeing on a 50/50 split period has nothing to do with arum!
arum needs to die thats all
That’s like selling fireworks on the day after 4th of july, who the hell wants to buy them then!
Ped users have a tendency to die young. Don’t wait too long Bob.
you’re absolutey right, it’s all about MONEY ARUM..
yea no doubt… ive been saying this for years before the talks between the first fight negotiation went thru that they wouldnt fight until arum couldnt make anymore money off of pacquiao
pacquiao is being used by pimp c pu-c arum
wow i hate the fact that a greedy old man is the omly thing stopping the biggest fight in history from happening , we all would have wanted to see a prime ali fight a prime tyson and many other fights , for once history has got it right but there is one old man that is just so greedy that he wont let this happen , for once can you just make it about the fans and the fighters and not the money mr arum you already have heaps of money , but people like me fork out to watch ppv fights but then have to do a cash job to pay for my next bill , all i ask is that mr arum stops being greedy