Sounds like Pac and Arum arent seeing eye tp eye, theyre definately not on the same page. Im really hoping Pacs getn smarter about his paperwork, thats just too damm bad its this late in the game...thats even if my hunch is true that is. Thatll ne so cool if Pac dropped Arum and signed with somebody or fought exclusively under Pac promos. With Pac global appeal he couldve been so much bigger than he is and he couldve capitolized ob his own brand...but Bob did and he makes more money on Pac than Pac himself, i guarantee that.
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this man will fight again. nobody on the highest level likes to retire off of a loss.Comment
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Retire? For what, being hit with some jabs and picking off most the other punches. I don't remember one hard punch landing on him in his last fight? Did I miss the part where Floyd was pounding the hell out of him and had him on wobbly legs? I still wonder what the hell really happened in that fight besides nothing.Comment
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As long as Arum thinks he can make a nickel off Pacquaio fighting he will fight. Manny does what he's told. He won't be through until Arum says he's done with him which is probably when Pacquaio leaves the ring on a stretcher.Comment
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Manny please go away. You shouldve been better with your finances and this disguisting display wouldnt need to happen.Comment
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I agree, something is different between Pac and Arum. Maybe Pac is starting to understand why Oscar, Floyd, Cotto, Chavez Jr., Rigo, Gamboa, and Mikey Garcia all left Arum. I think Arum never wanted the fight to happen in the first place. Arum's excuses of needles, cuts, stadiums, and finally contracts, were embarrassing, However the "contract" fiasco was probably the last straw. I think the whole shoulder injury thing is ruining the relationship. Arum says Pac is acting unprofessional. Pac says he's healing by swimming in salt water, and Roach says it's all a joke! It's a mess!Originally posted by wlliam View PostComment
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looks like you need to go see a eye doctor. whats wrong? are you mad that your fighter pacquiao threw punches in bunches that missed?Originally posted by chirorickyp View PostComment
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This is a must read for any boxing fan:
Requiem For a Welterweight:
Brin-Jonathan Butler
November 20, 2013:
Marquez was the first person in the world to understand the night was over. No matter how much anyone had paid to watch in the sellout crowd at the MGM Grand or the millions around the world watching on pay-per-view, they had to wait. We'd seen the punch; he'd thrown it. As the referee rushed over to the fallen man, time stood still, postcard-like, while Marquez gazed down at Pacquiao like an anxious, nervous kid staring at Christmas presents under a tree.
One of the oldest sayings in boxing, the first warning every aspiring fighter hears long before they've ever entered a ring, is that the most dangerous punch, the one to fear most, is the one you never see coming. While the cliché is certainly true at the start of a career, it rarely holds up toward the end. This is because almost none of the great fighters in history ever stopped after that punch ***8212; and the history of the sport suggests that few can ever escape it. Pacquiao, despite earning a reported $174 million since 2009 from boxing and endorsements deals, is no different.
Why? Because, of course, boxing's not so well kept dirty secret is that, financially, most fighters can never stop. No matter how outlandish a fortune they've earned inside the ring and out, most greats not only never get ahead, few can even manage getting out from under. They never put much distance between themselves and where they came from. With few exceptions, they all end up desperately needing one more payday. And then another. And then another. Most are forced to hang around so long their endings are consummated by the uglier, more sinister punch that they all saw coming a mile away. Joe Louis, at 37 years old, was never blindsided by the physical punches that Rocky Marciano landed to knock him helplessly out of the ring and the sport. No, the punch he never saw coming and what set him up for Marciano's right hand was debt ***8212; in his case, to the government. Louis owed the IRS $500,000 and had nowhere else to go and get it but back into the ring.
Nearly all the greats were forced to stick around for those last final beatings, the ones that did lasting damage to their souls as much as their brains. If "protect yourself at all times" is boxing's most vital rule to obey, surely the most devastating blow in the sport is the one you do see coming, the one you're simply helpless to escape its impact.
Why is it so many of boxing's greatest heroes ***8212; Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson ***8212; were forced to stare down this last tragic fate and await their inevitable descent into boxing's latest cautionary tale? In the so-called "red light district of sports," the only jungle where, as Don King's biographer Jack Newfield once pointed out, "the lions are afraid of the ****," why can so few great fighters walk away undamaged with any money in their pocket? Will Pacquiao be any different?
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He's gonna be fighting well into his 40s.Comment
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I'd still favor Pac over anyone at welter NOT named Floyd Mayweather.
Pac/Khan would sell, so why not?Comment
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