By Chris Williams: This question is mostly aimed at non-fans of Manny Pacquiao because I got a pretty good idea that Pacquiao’s loyal fans will buy his fights on pay per view no matter who Bob Arum matches him up against. But is Pacquiao’s fight with Antonio Margarito worth plunking down $50 to watch it?

Keep in mind that Arum will likely have Kelly Pavlik as the co-main event against someone like Peter Manfredo Jr., which is a nice mismatch. Also there’s Guillermo Rigondeaux on the card against a still to be determined opponent. Ricardo Cordoba has been mentioned as a possible opponent for Rigondeaux.

But mostly boxing fans will choose to buy or not to buy this card based on the main event between Pacquiao and Margarito. If you think this is going to be an exciting match-up, chances are you’re going to want to pay the $50 to see it.

But for me, I don’t plan on paying to see it. It’s not that I’m broken up about Margarito having been found with loaded hand wraps in the past. I’m not pleased by that, but that’s not why I won’t be wasting my money on this fight.

The major reason I’m not going to purchase this fight is because I don’t see Margarito as being worthy of fighting for the title. I think he’s on the downside of his career and not someone that should be fighting for the vacant WBC junior middleweight title. I also don’t think Pacquiao deserves to fight for the title.

This fight just seems fake to me. If the title and the catch weight weren’t part of it, I’d feel a lot better about. But having a title on the line and then having it as a catch weight bout, it just seems really phony to me.

I would rather see Pacquiao fight someone like Sergio Martinez or Paul Williams if he wanted to go after a title, not someone like Margarito who got knocked silly by 38-year-old Shane Mosley last year.

That right there makes me not way to pay to see the fight. Why should I pay to see a guy that got beaten just last year by old fighter? And I already saw Pacquiao in a catch weight fight a year. I don’t pay to see him fight at another catch weight against someone from the same boxing club.

I would gladly watch this fight if Arum made it a complimentary free showing. I’d watch it then but that’s about it. I don’t even see this fight as a $5 bout. He couldn’t discount it enough for me to still want to pay to see it. The fight would have to be free, and I’d have to have an open schedule for that block of time because I don’t see the fight as being interesting.

I might watch the fight if they put Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. on the undercard against Pavlik. I’d actually pay to see that fight, but only for the curiosity of how long it would take before Chavez is massacred by Pavlik. But no way would I pay $50. That would be $5 fight as far as I’m concerned.