By Rusty Nate: So I have been reading the articles, that I am sure you all have, from the bias writers regarding Manny Pacquiao, Juan Manuel Marquez and Floyd Mayweather and more specifically who should fight who and who doesn’t deserve the fight and so on.
The point I just wanted to make is, what’s changed in all honesty?
So Pacquiao and Marquez fought their 4th fight recently and we are all aware of the outcome of that.
Manny Pacquiao was KO’d by a huge counter right hand that he never saw coming and that he was moving in to when it connected. BOOM, it would have had the same result on any fighter it landed on, after all we’re all only human! Full respect to Marquez for a great counter!
Now since that fight the pundits have all been saying how the Pacquiao vs Mayweather fight is no longer looking likely because Pac has lost his last 2 in a row and blah blah blah.
Interestingly Floyd himself has not come out and said anything like “I am not fighting him now” or “what’s the point because he has lost 2 in a row”………
What Floyd did say was “he could have earnt more money fighting me than Bradley and Marquez combined”
This tells me we might just see an offer of substantially reduced numbers come out from the Mayweather camp.
Lets face it, if Manny was paid $25m for the Marquez fight he lost then a rematch would drop his earnings to even as low as $10m for the 5th fight or possibly even a 50/50 split with Marquez. All Mayweather would need to offer is $20m and Pacquiao can earn twice the money. The fight even now would make huge numbers regardless of Pac’s losses!
Any way my main point to this article is this……….
The world wanted to see Pacquiao Vs Mayweather six months ago, does it really matter that Pac has lost 2 in a row?
Yes, Mayweather is the overwhelming favorite for sure now (well many thought he was before anyway) but I for one still want to see this fight happen! Why? That’s very simple, I want to see what happens!
Do we all remember when Tyson fought Lewis? We all knew Tyson had no chance of winning by that stage of his career but the enthusiast in side all us true fans just wanted to see the two figures in the same ring together! And Tyson always had the punchers excitement about him so we paid to watch by the millions! I like to think it was a fight that we paid for because of the “just in case” factor! No one wanted to miss it “just in case” Tyson got lucky!
To be blunt, I am not interested now in a Marquez vs Pacquiao 5!
I am definitely not interested in Mayweather schooling an over-matched Guerrero!
My view would be, let Marquez go toe to toe with Guerrero for 12 rounds and lets get the fight made that we all wanted to see, just to finally know what happens!
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