Roach wants Mayweather & Marquez for Pacquiao

By Boxing News - 10/12/2013 - Comments

roach4523By Chris Williams: Trainer Freddie Roach doesn’t mind looking past Manny Pacquiao’s next opponent Brandon Rios (31-1-1, 23 KO’s) for a much hoped for mega fight between Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2014 and a 5th fight against Juan Manuel Marquez. Roach wants both of those fights to take place in 2014, but it’s not looking good right now that Pacquiao will get either of those fights for a variety of reasons.

The immediate thing that could stop Pacquiao from fighting those guys is him not being able to get past Rios on November 23rd. You can’t ignore the fact that Pacquiao is coming off of a terrible knockout loss to Marquez from last December, and while Roach can talk until he’s blue in the face that the knockout is just part of the sport, there’s a chance that Pacquiao may not be the same fighter.

Even if he is the same fighter, he didn’t look great against Marquez before the knockout and he definitely didn’t look good against Tim Bradley in his fight before that.

Roach said to RingTV “Mayweather has a contract that calls for high pay-per-view fighters to make a lot of money that Showtime signed to pay him. So that’s a possibility…It’s a fight we want.”

Pacquiao could get a fight with Mayweather, but he’d have to likely agree to a smaller cut of the revenue than what he usually gets for his fight. Pacquiao isn’t going to get 76 percent of the revenue against Mayweather, and he’s probably not going to get even 50 percent. I think Mayweather would agree to fight him if he were willing to take 35-40 percent. That would still give Pacquiao the biggest payday of his career, and who knows? Pacquiao and Maywweather could end up facing each other more than once if the fight were a competitive one. I don’t see it happening, but there’s a possibility if Pacquiao doesn’t get dominated.

Roach said this about Marquez “That’s a fight we still want back.”

Pacquiao and Top Rank can probably make the Marquez rematch easily if they agree to give him a 50-50 deal, but I don’t think they’ll ever agree to that. Marquez got a much smaller slice of the pie in their last fight in December, and I don’t think Pacquiao will agree to letting him get half of the money. At this point, Marquez should be getting a 50-50 deal, because he’s not the one that wants the fight.



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