Comments Thread For: Arum, CBS CEO Set Meeting on Mayweather-Pacquiao

[travestyny]

Floydiots will avoid that like a plaque especially BIG DUMB DUNN! lol!

This is about the same negotiations that De La Hoya said were definitely going on, and then changed his mind and said they weren't right?

"Regarding comments he made suggesting that contracts for the mega-fight were close to being finalized, De La Hoya told krikya360.com on July 26, 2010, 'I think I said it because I get the question asked so many times that, obviously, I was fed up and tired of it and I just said like, yeah, yeah, it's gonna get made. So it was a quick answer that I should have obviously thought about. But, obviously, negotiations weren't going on. Nothing was going on.'"



Is it any wonder that Mayweather rightfully so hated De La Hoya. The dude takes Arums side claiming negotiations were ongoing, only to get called on it and have to tuck his tail between his legs and admit there were no negotiations.

[megadeth]

Arum talking to CBS means a lot, Floyd is not his own boss. I'm sure CBS was fine with him having a bad buy rate with Guerrero since he made up for it with Canelo, which bought him a crap rate with Maidana. Since he didn't look good they had to make the rematch, you are truly delusional if you think a BILLIONAIRE(S) who own CBS are going to let Floyd run anything.

Floyd has his daddies at Showtime and CBS that are paying Floyd now because Floyd left Oscar. When he did that he had nobody but CBS left to front the bill for his purse, he doesn't want to fight Manny but CBS is the one with the final say I bet. I still think he'll fight Cotto first just to avoid the Manny fight as much as possible but if whoever owns CBS says Floyd fights Manny or his contract is void, he'll fight Manny.

Arum is talking to Les Moonves, who isn't a Billionaire. Floyd is possibly worth as much or more than he is.

[Evol]

How ironic! You do realize...(or I gues you don't) that this is not unheard of. In fact, Floyd more than likely got the idea of Pac and his team! JMM, Mosley and Bradley all had to leave their promoters and sign with TR to get a fight with....YES, that right, none other than Manny Pacquiao.

so u're fine with floyd acting like arum jr then? thats funny because u guys complain about arum yet when floyd acts like arum then its cool? is floyd fighting pac or is floyd promoting the fight only? because jmm, mosley, bradley didnt fight arum, they fought manny instead.

[QballLobo]

Showtime knows if its any other fighter they lose the May 5th date to Canelo/Cotto.
Floyd's last few PPV numbers haven't been up to par to warrant his guarantee so Showtime may not be giving him any other options.
Personally won't believe it until I see a presser with Pac, Roach, Arum, and Floyd all on the same stage announcing the fight.

[Bronx2245]

No he should not because Al Haymon is NOT a promoter and that would be against the muhammad ali act.

Promoters talk to promoters. Floyd is own promoter. Bob is trying to do everything he can to NOT acknowledge Floyd like he's a promoter, but it won't work. He can call Oscar, Espinoza, CBS, whoever, but in the end Arum NEEDS Floyd, but Floyd does NOT NEED Arum. Arum better start begging Cotto not to negotiate with Floyd for Cinco de Mayo. I hope Cotto does! 2 ex-TR fighters co-promoting their own mega-fight in NYC...Arum's nightmare! It would be truly historic!

[Evol]

Arum is talking to Les Moonves, who isn't a Billionaire. Floyd is possibly worth as much or more than he is.

so this doesnt mean anything since arum is not talking to floyd right? so then why did everyone made such a big deal about espinoza's tweet last week which got deleted by the way.

[bigjavi973]

I was referring to Manny's acceptance. Please, get off NSB and go to remedial reading with Floyd and manny.

They have courses for flowmos???? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

this coming from the guy that says that no one would have been favored against ortiz HAHAHAHAHAHAHa dumbass at least bronx2245 makes sense. stop talking out of your arse.

[HeroBando]

The math behind the million PPV estimate isn't wrong entirely, it just fails to consider many other factors.

The million PPV estimate I assume comes from:
$35,000,000 Floyd guarantee / $70/ppv buy = 500,000 buys * 2 (to recover the network's 50% take) = 1,000,000 buys.

Which as I mentioned above isn't necessarily wrong, just lacking. It fails to consider things such as live gate (any revenues and expenses associated with that), closed circuit (which I believe might go into the live gate, though I'm not entirely sure), the various revenues and expenses involved with having the live sporting event, international broadcasting rights which would be owned by the originating broadcaster, advertising revenue and expenses, etc...

It just fails to consider that Showtime, Las Vegas, and Mayweather himself have their own sources of revenue stemming from him fighting. So it might be in the ballpark, but overstated none the less.

Its in the ballpark alright. There's also expenses including advertising. And the promoter needs to get paid. The network normally wouldn't get any of those extras like international rights, the gate etc

[megadeth]

This is about the same negotiations that De La Hoya said were definitely going on, and then changed his mind and said they weren't right?

"Regarding comments he made suggesting that contracts for the mega-fight were close to being finalized, De La Hoya told krikya360.com on July 26, 2010, 'I think I said it because I get the question asked so many times that, obviously, I was fed up and tired of it and I just said like, yeah, yeah, it's gonna get made. So it was a quick answer that I should have obviously thought about. But, obviously, negotiations weren't going on. Nothing was going on.'"



Is it any wonder that Mayweather rightfully so hated De La Hoya. The dude takes Arums side claiming negotiations were ongoing, only to get called on it and have to tuck his tail between his legs and admit there were no negotiations.

******* is a hell of a drug!!

[bigjavi973]

Thanks for that quote (where's it from?) I never realized that Manny was still trying to get 24 day cut-off. I thought Manny wanted a 14 day cut-off. So not only did he want 24, he rejected the 14 day cut-off too! That's crazy!

thats what the fans confuse about it tho. Ive heard before the same tho that they said manny wanted the 14 day cut off, which is not true floyd is the one that requested it. When manny wanted the 24 day, floyd said no 14 days. That went on toward the mediation, where floyd wouldn't budge from his 14 days. Then not even a week later, he changed his mind to testing up to the fight.