Pacquiao will make a good opponent for Mayweather if he doesn’t get mauled by Rios

By Boxing News - 05/30/2013 - Comments

pac32By Chris Williams: If Manny Pacquiao can get past his next opponent Brandon Rios on November 23rd and Floyd Mayweather Jr. beats Saul “Canelo” Alvarez on September 14th, Pacquiao and Mayweather should make one last ditch effort to face each other in early 2014. Mayweather offered Pacquiao $40 million in the past to fight him but he was turned down.

Perhaps Pacquiao will accept that money if Mayweather offers it to him again. It’s not as if Pacquiao has anyone else to fight. His promoter Bob Arum pretty much has Pacquiao set to fight the likes of Rios, Mike Alvarado, Tim Bradley and possibly Juan Manuel Marquez the remainder of his career.

At least if Mayweather was inserted there would be a real fight that could attract fans instead of the less thrilling match-ups between Pacquiao and Arum’s stable fighters. Marquez vs. Pacquiao would be a good fight, but I’m not sure that Marquez wants to fight Pacquiao again after knocking him cold last December.

I don’t expect Pacquiao to beat Rios in November though. I think the young lion is going to maul Pacquiao and rip him to shreds in Macao, China in front of a large Chinese and a considerably smaller U.S pay per view audience.

It would be a sad ending for the Filipino if this is his last fight of his career, and if I was his promoter I would never even take the chance of putting him in with a guy like Rios after the way Pacquiao was knocked out last December.

It would be better if Arum took it easy on Pacquiao until he had a really important fight to put him in with like Mayweather or one of Golden Boy Promotions fighters like Canelo or Adrien Broner. This whole Golden Boy – Top Rank freeze is so bad for business.

Those guys should have solved that problem a long time ago so that Pacquiao had better opportunities instead of finishing up his career against the likes of Alvarado, Rios and Bradley. That’s a waste for Pacquiao.

Arum should be looking to cross promotional boundaries and making the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight. It’s obviously not going to be the fight that it could have been but it’s still much bigger than having Pacquiao fight Rios, Alvarado and Bradley over and over again.

I fully expect Rios to put Pacquiao out his misery on November 23rd and that’s such a pity. Like I said, I wouldn’t have made that fight if I was Pacquiao’s promoter. I would have seen that he’s on his last leg and I would have looked for that big cash out fight with Mayweather.



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