By Robert Elmore: Juan Marquez beat the man, the A side, Manny Pacquiao by a vicious 6th round knockout in the fourth encounter. Juan had lost three decisions prior to this bout. Many fans and unofficial judges had Marquez winning the third encounter, but the ring side judges saw otherwise. A fifth fight was immediately talked about even though both fighters said the fourth fight would be the last.
Moreover, talks of a fifth fight hit a snag when it came to it came to money. Marquez said he would entertain the idea of fighting Pac is he got a 50/50 split. Pac refused to accommodate Marquez request because Manny believed he was still the bigger draw. Here’s what Roach told the sweet science on April 13th: “I want Marquez right away. Manny and I both want it. But Marquez wants just about 50/50 split. Manny brings but in seats pay per view wise. Manny is the guy…..I think both guys can ask for more (money) and Marquez deserves something, but not 50/50”. Roach also told that same website that Marquez was asking 20 million.
The problem was Pacquiao lost his A side status when he was knocked out by Marquez. Many believed that Marquez was pricing himself out of the fight. There were two reason fans believed Marquez was asking for so much money. One, there would be drug testing. But Marquez stated before the fight that he was willing to be tested if Manny was. However, there was no testing done before the fight and things moved forward.
Two, they said he was simply scared of losing to Pac. Marquez wasn’t scared of Pacquiao. In his eyes he had done everything he needed to do to win a decision in his previous fights. But as I stated above the judges didn’t so a knockout was needed in Marquez’s eyes. Why do I bring up this point? Pacquiao has asked for a 50/50 split from A side Floyd Mayweather and Floyd has stated it would not happen. Allow me to drop this reality on Pacquiao fans and Floyd haters.
If Floyd had lost his title to Bradley, was koed by Marquez, got his title back from Bradley, fought Brandon Rios and did 470,000 buys, regainec his title by beating Bradley, then fought Chris Algieri and brought in just over 300,000 buys, Bob Arum, Pacquiao, and trainer Freddie Roach, would likely go out of their way to let Floyd and the public know who the B side to the proposed mega would be.
First, Floyd couldn’t fight Algieri and get away with it. The internet would crash from the comments that would fill the blogs. Arum would not let Floyd come anywhere near a 50/50 split. I’m sure Arum would make Floyd take that 40 million dollar offer with 35% upside of the revenue or Arum would go elsewhere.
Pacquiao has said on many occasions that he would take less money to make this fight happen. But when a confirmed 40 million dollar offer with 35% of the revenue was made, it wasn’t enough? So Pacquiao can tell Marquez he doesn’t deserve a 50/50 split nor 20 million dollars and he isn’t ducking or pricing himself out? But Floyd tells Pacquiao he doesn’t deserve a 50/50 split and Pacquiao fans/Floyd haters are saying Floyd is ducking and purposely pricing himself out? How does that work?
Pacquiao gets no sympathy from me nor does his fans until they can explain to me why Marquez doesn’t deserve what he asked for when he CLEARLY earned it. So in the words of Roach and I’m going to add/take away a few words. Floyd’s wants Manny right away. But Pacquiao wants just about 50/50 split. Floyd’s brings in the numbers pay per view wise. Floyd is the guy…..I think both guys can ask for more (money) and Manny deserves something, but not 50/50.
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