Pacquiao guaranteed $25 million for Bradley fight
February 12th, 2012
By John F. McKenna (McJack): WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38 KO’s) will receive a guarantee of $25 million when he faces undefeated WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (28-0-1 NC, 12 KO’s) at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas on June 9.
In his last fight with Juan Manuel Marquez, Pacquiao received a guaranteed $22 million, plus a share of the Pay Per View (PPV) sales, international broadcast rights and live gate receipts.
“Desert Storm” as Bradley is known to his fans will earn $5 million for the right to take on Pacquiao. The $5 million will be by far the most the 28 year old native of Palm Springs in Southern California has earned. Prior to Pacquiao, Bradley’s largest purse was approximately $1 million.
If the fight against Bradley does well financially Pacquiao could conceivably earn more than his guaranteed purse.
Manny has come a long way from the $40 thousand he earned in his U.S. debut as a substitute in 2001. In that fight, which also took place at the MGM Grand, Pacquiao fought as a super bantamweight at 122 pounds. Since that fight Manny has become an international icon winning championships in eight weight divisions.
Arum reported that Pacquiao will fly to the U.S. ahead of time to take part in a three city press tour which begins on February 21. After a press conference in Las Vegas the tour will travel to Los Angeles on February 21 and then to New York City on February 23.
Bradley has acknowledged that in taking on Pacquiao he is shooting for the stars. Already Pacquiao has been installed as a solid 5 – 1 favorite by the oddsmakers. Bradley exudes a great deal of confidence, which will serve him in good stead for what will be by far the hugest fight of his career.
Pacquiao has come under increasing criticism for taking on opponents who have appeared to be on the downward slope of their careers. Bradley at 28 is in his prime and there are many boxing fans who believe he will give Manny all he can handle.
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take that $25 million and run,pac man.that is until tim ko u,yes he wil ko u,i can see it coming
your gods have abandoned you , look what marquez did to you retire before you loose what you hve gained.
Manny Pac man is over rated fighter. Yes he will lose if he fights Mayweather and he and Freddi roach know it. Look what Floyd did to Hatton. Hatton fights just like Pac man.
Let him get his 25 Million after he fights bradley. He will be done and completed his legacy of being an undefeated fighter. No one loves the game for waht it is.
Lets be real it iall about the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Pacquiao is a bad business man, he turned down a guranteed $40 million dollar payday against Mayweather and is settling for $25 million. This he did even after havint already stated that he fought for the love of his fans and would be willing to fight Mayweather for less money. But when Mayweather called him on it, Pacquiao stalled like he has been doing for the past 3 years. I guess no amount of money can overcome the fear of losing.
@ miguel cotto of australia
catchweight queen is not bad if u understand boxing.if you are not a hater. heavy weghts can never fight another weight division unless u really wanted to get a piece of manny pacquiao.all catchweight was approved by both sides.it was signed,approved and contracted by both teams and the boxing commision.the whole boxing body itself.and the result is sealde in the book of boxing. even klitschko brothers will try to drain themself if they can get 50 million fighting pacquiao.if u want to get a big share ob pacquiaos cake.lose weight or climb up. ok? losers.
@ miguel cotto of australia
he is the only one stayed at the fight venue.crying…because he bet marquez to win,then he lose…tsk!tsk!tsk! cry baby cry…its ok u can just write more of manny here. let it out baby.
not every single pacqiuao fan left the venue but you could see that nearly everyone there knew manny lost and a very big percentage of his fans left when the fight started there was standing room only after the 11th they started going home and the venue looked a lot differant you could notice all the room and see them cueing up to get out . and to anonymous im not a gambler and every aboriginal friends i have dont like manny pacqiuao they all say the same thing he can only win by catchweight and they all like floyd mayweather and anthony mundine bec they both are more skilled then manny.
For financial consideration, this is the wrong fight that Bob Arum chose for Pacquiao. I am a fan of the Pacman, but he will lose this one, big time. This means that this is the second time that Arum is marinating a good fight but at the end, Arum losses. Take for granted Juan Manual Lopez against Gamboa. Arum waited too long. Lopez got KOD by a no-name fighter. For the money, Pacman should fight Cotto first, then, Mayweather, and finally a rematch with Marquez. The, he can retire with at least $100 million more in his already fat bank account. I am talking about business side of boxing, not for the fans, but for the money. Pacman’s manager Konck and Roach screwed up on this one!
BRADLEY HAS A CHANCE OF FIGHTING PACQUIOA. HAS A CHANCE TO BE KNOCKOUT.AND THE REFERE WILL COUNT 1 TO 8 BRADLEY WILL GET UP AND FIGHT.AND BRADLEY WILL BE KNOCKOUT AGAIN THA REFERE WILL COUNT AGAIN FROM 1 TO 8.SO BRADLEY WILL GET UP AND FIGHT.UNTEL THE REFERE WILL STOP THE FIGHT.AND BRADLEY WILL RECIEVE HIS ONE LOSE A GIFT FROM PACQUIOA.IN JUNE 10 BRADLEY RECORD WILL BE 28 WIN 1 LOSE AND 12 KO. TTHE END….BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR.
@ miquel cotto of australia…
All 1200 Filipino did NOT stayed to watch the 12 round? That is just so hard to believe. Come on, not even 1?
PAC fighting the 140lbs champ, it’s catch weight or a smaller man!!
Wow, who’s the real cash cow you say??? Floyd will make more than both Pac and Bradley COMBINED in his next fight with Cotto. Pac take control of your LIFE & stop being a SLAVE!!!!
lol
No place to run, no place to hide. Floyd done “CHEEKENED” out!
@ miquel cotto of australia…
r u sure? you better bet the whole down under to the aborigins then go live in puerto rico with miquel coz, june 9 u will eat ur words like a boomerang coming back at you.
thats the problem on pacman haters…some says bradley is an easy fight for manny bcoz its cherry picked…others said manny will be knockout by bradley. uuhhh…haters…
but all manny’s fans,analyst is consistent that manny will win by knockouts…pity.
When will there ever be constructive comments on here & not a load of Floyd/Manny fans bashing each other and talking nonsense. Floyd don’t want the fight, do your research, as for Arum taking a cut of 25mil? that BS.. that IS Pacs cut after Arum has had his.
After Floyd beats Manny, like he did Marquez, Like Marquez beat Pac again, then Pac-you will go away for good. Then we will see who the real coward is. Just like when Marquez beat Pac recently, most of the pactards went away but returned under new names, most making excuses for Pac… bwahahhahaha
in australia everyone knows pacman is finished the place i watched pacs last fight said it all there were about 1200 filipino fans all there for pacman and after the 11th round they all started going home bec they knew that manny got smashed and really looked like an amature so that said it all before the fight pac fans all saying is a mismatch marquez to old and look what happen pacman looked stupid again !!! tim bradley will END MANNYS CAREER no one will even talk about him after he fights tim bradley
Well,Pacman surely get $25-million for Bradley.But it is much better if Pacman fights the scared and cowardFloyd Jr to earned $50-million and coward Floyd Jr will be knock-out.That’s why coward Floyd Jr is too scared to Pacman.lol
TO THE RETARD BELOW. how can catchweigth queen manny offer $45mill for a fight when hes making $25 mill. duh you dumb pinoy
LETS DO THE MAN HERE FOR MINNY CATCHWEIGHT QUEEN PACQUIAO. 30% to dirty jeu arum, 20% for roach, 40% tax. hes gona be left with a BIG HOLE up his butt cracK and floyd would KNOC minny midget THE F*** OUT.
Why did floidie not take the 45M being offered by Arum? Bec. hes afraid?
@Jenkie
Floyd-$70M / Cotto-$30M??? Where they get the money???
Floyd/Ortiz fight had $78M revenue, HBO took half of it for satellite expenses and promotion. If what you said is true, then GBP will pay Floyd and Cotto $60M out of their pocket, that’s crazy!
For years I wasn’t a Pacman fan, now I enjoy all of his fights. I don’t care about catchweights or anything but seeing him tee off on these guys. JMM came close to beating him, but if you check the punchstats it’s clear he won. Against Bradley, I see Pac having to be 100% on his game, but definitely winning. Bradley is good, not great. I just hope they figure out what is causing Pac’s leg cramps. He needs mobility against a headbutting runner like Timmy.
MANNY IS GETTING WEALTHY EXPONENTIALLY
@ Jinkee
2 of the 8 were held a catchweight, Cotto at 145lb still in the weight limit for a WW 141-147lb. And Cotto is not a ripped WW so the 2lb does not make much difference.
The other Margarito ( not a fight I would of put Pac in ) at 150 again still in the JMW 148-154lb, that being said Pacquiao has not come in heavier than 146lb and was out weighed by 16lb.
You seem to be a hater. At least Pacquiao fights 2 times a year and does not disapear on holiday or retire temporarily.
I look forward to the Cotto Mayweather fight, I just hope it is not boring like Floyds last 3 fights.
@ Miguel Cotto from Oz
You must be in the land of OZ if you think Bradley can KO Pacquiao ( do you know his KO % ) Dum Dums like you and that guy/girl Wins 8th as unrankt cntdr refuses 2 defend evn 1x! know only Pacquiao and Mayweather and google everything else Hahaha
pacman last fight , bradley will knock out pacman in mid rounds in an easy display. i think they should have check pacman a little more thoroughly , he will lose this easyly
If Manny generates enough PPV buys he deserves the money, but that doesn’t make it an interesting fight. I could be wrong but I don’t think Bradley is in the same league as Manny, and Arum is just standing in the way of the main event. It makes me sick to think what a hold that hideous man has on the sport.
@zdrx you are retarded if you believe that.
zdrx haha Ok take care big homie.
pacquiao so stupid, everbody knows now that he’s scared on floyd.. Why he dont accept the $40million offer from floyd? He cant demand a 50-50 split becuse floyd is the cash cow of combat sports and floyd is undefeated. Pacquiao is 8 division world champion but most of it came from CATCHWEIGHTS.. now cotto was guarranteed $30 million and is much bigge than pacquiao’s guarranteed purse against bradley and offcourse floyd will get $60-$70million which is twice bigger than pacquiao’s purse! Floyd is the man for sure, pacquiao and top rank are fake..
BIG NOSE.(D’real Big Nose)…. says:
February 13, 2012 at 1:06 am
@zdrx hey homie and how do you see Bradley-Pacquiao going ? explain
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i can’t explain…because i haven’t seen it yet. but in my opinion…what will happen…will happen.
see my first post below… at 12:33 a.m
CHEPE says:
February 13, 2012 at 1:02 am
@zdrx Do you even like to watch boxing in general ?
CHEPE says:
February 13, 2012 at 1:00 am
@zdrx “Sure” and thats why he didn’t want to give a rematch to Marquez.
KiKi.. says:
February 13, 2012 at 12:58 am
@zdrx then why didn’t pacquiao accept Mayweathers challenge ?
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1) yeah watched boxing even in my sleep.
2) he gave marquez 2-3 chances…why should he give marquez
another?
3) pacman has challenged floyd since time immemorial…why should he accept floyd’s obnoxious offer…when floyd won’t accept his fair counter offer?
@zdrx hey homie and how do you see Bradley-Pacquiao going ? explain .
@zdrx Or are you atleast a boxing fan ?.
YEAH ONLY FINISHED HIGH SCHOOL here in PBI…in antique philippines…and nothing more…well, im fine…just trying to recharge
@zdrx Do you even like to watch boxing in general ?
@zdrx “Sure” and thats why he didn’t want to give a rematch to Marquez.
@zdrx then why didn’t pacquiao accept Mayweathers challenge ?
@ zdrx..
Exactly, If a fighter is confident that he would win he would take a fight that would make him money when he wins.
@zdrx what are you talking about crazy I’m not Maradona ?. Anyways how been?
maradonna…OOOPPS, i mean BUG NOSE…i been abducted again by UFO to planet * at constellation @ having sex with those beautiful aliens. i’m back to recharge. those noise still bugging you?
zdrx??
Now lets talk about being a boxing fan… im very sure if you are a real boxing fan you prefer watching boxers going toe to toe at each other than watching a chess match…
@zdrx Have you graduated from Jr.High ?
brandon says:
February 13, 2012 at 12:39 am
ok, all i read here is pacquio is stupid for taking a 25 million garantee fight for a 40 million fight. You have to rememberTo thin that a paquio mayweather fight is a mega fight, a flat rate of 40 million is not a fair at all to pacquio. do you think that fight will only make 80 million including ppv? you have to think about that first before you make a comment. Taking a 25 million garantee is juat like saying to mayweather that i better take a small fight that be exploited by you…. when you think of it 25 million garantee plus PPV will be so close to 40 million.. lets see how much will he make after this fight..
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and when koncz made a counter offer of 60/40 in favor of the winner…floyd fled and lost his voice…because he knew who will pocket the bigger slice. LOL…LMAO…ROFL…ETC HA HA HA
@zdrx whats up homie how you been ?
@ Wins 8th…
Ah you are Pinoy lol that explains a lot lol Jealous much??
I wait your reply about the wider boxing world after you have googled the infomation you need
ok, all i read here is pacquio is stupid for taking a 25 million garantee fight for a 40 million fight. You have to rememberTo thin that a paquio mayweather fight is a mega fight, a flat rate of 40 million is not a fair at all to pacquio. do you think that fight will only make 80 million including ppv? you have to think about that first before you make a comment. Taking a 25 million garantee is juat like saying to mayweather that i better take a small fight that be exploited by you…. when you think of it 25 million garantee plus PPV will be so close to 40 million.. lets see how much will he make after this fight..
Wins 8th as unrankt cntdr refuses 2 defend evn 1x! says:
February 13, 2012 at 12:26 am
Anonymous, Stop being a tanga/bobo=stupid… smh! and read between the lines! I thought u knew better than that! Now for the last time, get off that manny bandwagon and show me some interest in the wide world of boxing!
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and it seems…you need to learn a lot about the sport…you idiot
Anonymous says:
February 13, 2012 at 12:31 am
wow.. the flomos keeps amaze me….they are the boxing experts, PED experts, Laws and Criminals experts and Promoter experts
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and they are stupid fools like no other
bradley will taste his first defeat…at the price of 5M.
that is something floyd deftly avoided…even at the cost of 100M.
wow.. the flomos keeps amaze me….they are the boxing experts, PED experts, Laws and Criminals experts and Promoter experts
Anonymous, Stop being a tanga/bobo=stupid… smh! and read between the lines! I thought u knew better than that! Now for the last time, get off that manny bandwagon and show me some interest in the wide world of boxing!
@ Wins 8th…
Yeah lets talk about the upcoming fights on a page about Pacquiao and Bradley lmao.
You are right Broner might be an up coming fighter, but the opposition he has faced thus far is not so flattering. His last opponent Vincent Rodriguez record was a 33-2-1 that looks good until you look at who he had faced, so a 3rd KO is not a suprise. I look forward to him fighting a top 10 SFW and not a number 17 ranked Perez, say Ricky Burns or Roman Martinez.
I like Maidana he is a come forward fighter and I see him winning his fight with Alexander. Another fight I am looking forward to is Nathan Cleverly vs Karpency. I hope it is not an easy fight for Cleverly he needs a good showing as his last 2 fights with Bellew and Kuziemski have not helped him get himself out there to the wider public.
What do you think?
@ Wins 8th..
You Said.
Wins 8th as unrankt cntdr refuses 2 defend evn 1x! says:
February 12, 2012 at 9:31 pm
thanks to bob arum for putting manny in against bums or old washed up fighters which pinoy manny fans don’t even realize…arum knew he can make a killing from them!
Yet again you never fail to suprise me. My response was to the above. Yet you fail to accept your own ignorance lmao
This is what we are talking about. I know what fights are coming up in the next few weeks. Try and justify your statement.. YOU CAN NOT.. go back to sleep FOOL
I have forgoten more about the sport than you know.
Pacquiao will get $5 Mil in his rematch with Bradley…
Anonymous, You are wasting your time trying to explain yourself because truth of the matter is if you were really a fan of the “sweet science” you wouldn’t put so much emphasis on how you think about some of us, you call biased floyd fans which we are not rather talk about the upcoming potentially competive fights which will be shown next weeken d on showtime and the weekend after on HBO featuring madaina vs. alexander and on the undercard, potential superstar American, Adrien Broner…Now, get off that manny bandwagon and start paying attention to wide world of boxing!
Why in hell do fans argue and look for excuses depending on who they support. I posted before if these guys (Manny and Floyd) wanted to fight they would have fought by now. They both are at fault. And until they fight, its all just opinion on what would happen. We dont get one penny back for our ppv dollar.. These guys dont care what we want or they would fight. So whats up with calling names and all the BS? Its just boxing dudes. When I say they are both gutless, you guys say boxing has changed from my day. Now they must think of their families first and make all the money they can. So as long as we keep paying for these match-ups, why argue about it? Mannys 25 million comes from people who buy the fight. Same for Floyd. They are rich and they earned it by us paying for the fights they fight. Got over it!
@ Wins 8th..
Your response tells me alot about you and you narrow mindness. I have been a fan and around boxing for 30+ years my statement was in response to your biased opinion. Mayweather and Pacquiao over the last 3 or so years have faced similar opposition eg Mosley, JMM, Oscar and now Cotto
So to point the finger at Arum and Pacquiao is pointing the exact same finger at Mayweather FACT. You might grow up one day and have an intrest in the sport in whole as you are obviously a blind, biased Floyd fan.
Anonymous, pay attention to wide world of boxing and stop being a manny bandwagon jumper, U IDITOT!
Atleast floyds fans are more true to boxing than manny’s!
At Ross,
Tyson wasn’t a congressman at his province/state. big difference. You can also look into Pacman’s financial investment at the phil and tyson’s financial portfolio here in the states before making a comments Otherwise, you’re no better than the fool
Airdukes
The truth is Pac vs Bradley will be more an exciting fight than against Floyd who I’m sure will NEVER stand toe to toe against Pac and exchange blows each round. Floyd will be dancing all night which will be soooo booorrriinngg!
@ Wins 8th……
And Floyd has done exactly the same. You are another IDIOT
@ ROSS
And your boy Floyd will be living in a card board box
I D I O T
$25mil. easy fight for the Pac.
Mayweather offer him $40million and he turn it down for $25million to fight bradley. Who dodgeing who!!!! Manny pacquaio the idiot
Chris Wlliams and fakequiao is now facking each other
thanks to bob arum for putting manny in against bums or old washed up fighters which pinoy manny fans don’t even realize…arum knew he can make a killing from them!
Bradley has no chance unless he gets the TKO! A points decision will be a disaster for him, Arums connections will see to that! The money making Pacquiao machine will roll on regardless!
Look for Pacquiao to come out of retirement in a couple of years. He will have to resort to exhibition matches to pay off his debts. Manny’s gang of l e e c e s will bleed him dry and then abandon him. Manny will be the Mike Tyson of the Philippines. Kind of sad, really.
I guess its all about the money now huh ? I don’t even know whats the point of boxing now.
stupid period.give up 15 mill.amd maybe loose ????
anyways hows Casimiero doing ? XDDD
Poor Ana Julatan she will get hit by a steel chair on her fat azz.hahahaha!
Viva ARGENTINA!
I’m Argentinian and I hope Pacquiao finally mans up and decides to fight Martinez next . The fight should take place in Spain .
But I do think Pacman will somehow come away with a win.
the retard drug user pu-c pac leaves 40 mill to get 25 mill for a fight cause hes scared to fight floyd. PU-C PU-C
25 million is alot but we all know he wont see but maybe 10 million of it. Arum will get the biggest share. Its sad that he keeps letting Arum do this to him. Also, the writer is right…a young Bradley is gonna be a handful. Bradley likes to force the issue and Pacman haven’t seen that in a while. He wont just stand there to be a punching bag. At some point…Pacman is gonna find himself in some real trouble. Its gonna be interesting to see how he responds.
40 million without ppv or 25 million with ppv
bradley aint ever drew ….hes 28 – 0 – 0
Pac and mayweather may not be fighting each other, but at least they both have decent fights coming up.