Pacquiao happy that Mayweather is bringing attention to his fight with Margarito

By Boxing News - 09/05/2010 - Comments

Image: Pacquiao happy that Mayweather is bringing attention to his fight with MargaritoBy Dan Ambrose: In Manny Pacquiao’s recent column at Philboxing.com, he pointed out that he was happy that Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been mentioning him because it’s brought more attention to Pacquiao’s upcoming November 13th fight against Antonio Margarito on November 13h. Mayweather recently put together a racist filled video in which he criticized Pacquiao up and down for 10 minutes. The video has gone viral and it’s now all over the internet.

In turn, Mayweather has received a massive amount of criticism for some of the racial comments that he made in the video, and at the same time, Pacquiao has received a lot of support for being on the receiving end of those comments. Mayweaher has since apologized for making the video, saying he didn’t mean and that he was just having fun. Whatever the case, it’s still not been forgotten by boxing fans as they are still talking about it to this day.

Pacquiao had this to say in his column: “I am delighted that even Floyd Mayweather is helping to bring attention to my fight because of his slanderous comments against me and his showcase of ignorance, a more people are noticing my fight. Because I won’t have enough time right now, I will further respond to Mayweather’s racial slurs, which shows his rude nature. I know there will be several people that will criticize his rants from today until my next column.”

Pacquiao has stayed remarkably calm despite the things that Mayweather said about him, and has taken a very mature and adult view on all of this.
Pacquiao’s fight with Margarito needs to do really well on pay per view to put Pacquiao in a good position to negotiate with Mayweather on even terms next year.

If the Pacquiao-Margarito fight only brings in 700,000 or less, he may find himself having a tough time justifying a request for a 50-50 financial deal with Mayweather. Floyd’s last fight brought in 1.4 million PPV buys against Shane Mosley. That’s probably who Pacquiao should be fighting now, not the recently suspended Margarito.



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