Mayweather-Pacquiao

By Chris Williams: Welterweight star Floyd Mayweather Jr. will be netting from $220 million to $230 million for his 12 round decision win over Manny Pacquiao on May 2nd of this year in Las Vegas, Nevada, according to ESPN.com. This is pretty close to the $250 million that Mayweather is talking about making from the Pacquiao fight.

Mayweather says he’ll make all total over $500 million for 2015. He’s expected to make over $100 million for his next fight on September 12th, and he still has money coming to him for the Pacquiao fight. $500 million is a lot of green.

By Chris Williams: The fans have heard the injury excuses from Manny Pacquiao, and they’re now waiting for him to finish healing up from his one-sided loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr. last May. The time estimate that it’s going to take for Pacquiao to finish licking his war wounds is another nine to ten months.

If Pacquiao’s surgically repaired right shoulder does heal up and respond to rehabilitation, then he’s going to want to face Mayweather in a rematch. Mayweather is saying now that he won’t be giving the Filipino star a rematch, but he might change his mind and fight him again.

By Chris Williams: Floyd Mayweather Jr’s strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza doesn’t see the point in Mayweather facing the 36-year-old Manny Pacquiao a second time if the Filipino fighter hasn’t done anything to overhaul the team that he has working with him.

Ariza thinks that the outcome won’t be any different in a rematch because Pacquiao has the same old tired team around him as before. Ariza thinks that Pacquiao needs to change out his entire team from top to bottom.

By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao (57-6-2, 38 KOs) is said to be only interested in coming back for a fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. and no one else, according to an insider for Philstar.

Pacquiao is still recovering from shoulder surgery on a torn rotator cuff injury that he aggravated in his last fight against Mayweather on May 2nd. Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum is interested in bringing him back next year in a fight in Dubai against possibly someone like Amir Khan or Kell Brook. However, the insider says that Pacquiao isn’t interested in fighting in a Middle Eastern country.

By Yannis Mihanos: In the film industry and especially in Hollywood a sequel is always welcome if the sales are good and the story is pretty solid and inspiring.

In boxing this is common too. Fighters give in to rematches in order to settle their differences for a second time or even more: sometimes they might fight 3 or even 4 times like the unforgettable epic series of Arturo Gatti vs. Mickey Ward or more recently the one of Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez.

By Brickshot: As of May 2nd, Floyd Mayweather Jr. had been declared the winner of the showdown between he and the Filipino star Manny Pacquiao. Usually after a huge event the winner of the bout celebrates his victory and the boxing world sees the truth as it is like any other typical win, but this bout was a little different.

As weeks passed by the boxing world was stirred up with information that was unknown prior to the fight, and the unanimous decision win had now become more of a unanimous controversy.