By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao’s personal adviser Michael Koncz is saying that Juan Manuel Marquez was selected not because he brought the most amount of money to the table for Pacquiao after Miguel Cotto bowed out of the negotiations for a rematch, but rather because Marquez was the most entertaining for boxing fans.

Koncz told Blogtalkradio.com “This [Marquez] was the only fight, other than Floyd Mayweather, that’s available to make it entertaining for the fans…That’s Manny’s primary goal, is to entertain his fans. And that’s why we chose Marquez.”

That’s really interested it sounds no noble, Pacquiao fighting Marquez because he was the most entertaining fighter out there and not for the money. But what we heard Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum talking about over and over again wasn’t that Marquez was the most entertaining but rather he brought in the big pay per view numbers with the Hispanic fans that he attracts. I didn’t hear too much about the fact that Marquez is the most entertaining opponent that Pacquiao could find. Instead it seemed to be more about Marquez’s PPV potential compared to Pacquiao’s recent conqueror Tim Bradley, who brought in less than impressive PPV numbers in Pacquiao’s last fight in June of this year. It’s unclear what those numbers are, since HBO didn’t release them for some reason. They must have been dreadful for Pacquiao not to be fighting Bradley again.

But is the real reason that Pacquiao is fighting Marquez because he’s the most entertaining? Has that always been Pacquiao’s main goal in choosing opponents? If so, then why on earth did he fight a shot 40-year-old Shane Mosley last year in May? Mosley hadn’t won a fight in TWO YEARS at the time that Pacquiao fought him. Did Mosley get picked out because he was an opponent that promised to be the most entertaining or was he picked out just because his name was recognizable to casual boxing fans, who didn’t have a clue that Mosley was a shot fighter at that point in his career?

So if entertainment is the name of the game with Pacquiao, why he did he fight Antonio Margarito in 2010? Margarito had recently come off of a year-long suspension and before that he been stopped by Shane Mosley. Although he won a fight after his year long suspension against Roberto Garcia, Margarito looked like a shell of his former self. The power was mostly gone, the little hand speed that he once had was gone as well. Why did Pacquiao fight Margarito? Was that for entertainment too or was it to get a high PPV fight due to the Hispanic fans that Margarito could attract?

If entertainment was the angle than I would have expected that Pacquiao would have never fought Tim Bradley in the first place last June, because Bradley has a rep for turning fights into ugly clinch-filled bouts that are difficult to watch. I know Bob Arum signed Bradley to his Top Rank stable, but who on their right would have ever thought of a Pacquiao-Bradley as a potentially entertaining affair?