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 Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 12:24 am Post subject: Floyd or Not, Pacquiao to retire after Nov. 13 bout |
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Manny Pacquiao wants to be remembered plainly as "Manny Pacquiao" when he retires after his November 13 bout this year.
The seven world division champion has signified his intentions of hanging up his gloves whether or not he faces the undefeated and thrash-talking Floyd Mayweather Jr. in November.
"I don’t want to retire as a washed-up boxer. At the back of my mind, I've already contemplated on retirement as early as last year," said Pacquiao. "I don’t want to retire from the sport at a time when I'm feeling pains on my body."
Expect popular ring announcer Michael Buffer to add "The Fighting Congressman from the Philippines" to Pacquiao’s growing list of monikers in his ring return this year after the People's Champ won a Congressional seat in the lone legislative district of Sarangani, his wife Jinkee's home province. This page requires a higher version browser For the latest Philippine news stories and videos, visit GMANews.TV And Pacquiao could very well be the new "Lord of the Political Ring" in Sarangani as he became the only professional boxer ever elected into public office after the Filipino boxing icon knocked out the Chiongbian political clan.
But nothing is certain yet for the boxing bout every fight fan wants to see since Top Rank's Bob Arum is still negotiating with Richard Schaefer, his counterpart at Golden Boy Promotions.
Negotiations are now on going for the biggest fight ever since Muhammad Ali and Joe Fraizer went at it at the start of their epic trilogy in boxing almost four decades ago.
"I haven't talked yet to Bob. He's the one negotiating with Mayweather's camp," said Pacquiao. "But I'm sure he's doing everything to make the fight to happen. Everyone wants to see this fight."
According to Pacquiao, the blood test won't be an issue anymore as both camps have already agreed on the terms but there are still other details needed to be ironed out – like the fight purse – but the pound-for-pound boxer declined to give specifics. This page requires a higher version browser For the latest Philippine news stories and videos, visit GMANews.TV Before giving the go signal for Arum to negotiate with the Mayweathers, Pacquiao needed to overcome one hurdle. Convince his mother, Dionisia, who said that she wants Pacquiao to retire or she'll gatecrash her son's match if he doesn't stop fighting.
Surprisingly, Dionisia, whose popularity grew with her champion son, allowed Pacquiao to climb the ring for the last time announcing it during her 61st birthday celebration on May 15.
Perhaps, "Mommy D." knows best that there's no better fight available left for his son than to mix it up with Mayweather Jr., whose mouth is as fast as his fist when he demolished "Sugar" Shane Mosley recently.
"My mom doesn't want me to fight anymore. But I convinced her, to give me one last fight. (After that) I'm already thinking about retirement," said Pacquiao, who said that he wants his last fight to take place either at the Dallas Cowboy Stadium again or at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. – JVP/Rey Joble, GMANews.TV |
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| Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 12:26 am Post subject: |
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P.S. Rumors have been flying around that Floyd has changed his stance about the 50/50 split. Hes gunning for a bigger piece of the pie but the blood tests are no longer an issue.
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| Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 2:43 am Post subject: |
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| P.S. Rumors have been flying around that Floyd has changed his stance about the 50/50 split. Hes gunning for a bigger piece of the pie but the blood tests are no longer an issue. |
Give him the bigger piece of the pie and just get into the ring! 52-48, 55-45 max, not much of a difference. If team Pac are really confident that they'll give Mayweather his first professional loss, that should taste sweeter than any amount of money they recieve.
And in all fairness, when it comes to PPV numbers Mayweather has statistically been proven the bigger draw. But who cares, just fight already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 3:25 am Post subject: |
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No doubt Mayweather will want a 60/40 split. BR with Mosley was around 1.5m, the BR with Pacman-Clottey was 700k. Theres a big difference there.
Although Pacman is an attraction, Mayweather is more of a household name. He is a marketing genius.
Last three fights
Mayweather-Mosley = 1.5m (revised up form 1.4)
Mayweather-Marquez = 1m
Mayweather-Hatton = 850K
Total: 3.35m
Pacquiao-Clottey = 750K
Pacquiao-Cotto = 1.2m
Pacquiao-Hatton = 900K
Total: 2.85m |
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| Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 5:28 am Post subject: |
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In all fairness, Mayweather-Mosley was the most advertised bout in the history of boxing and GBP were predicting 4m buys, but didn't do much more than Pac-Cotto. 52-48 is fair. no way is Pacman gonna accept 60-40, no wayyy
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| Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 5:50 am Post subject: |
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Kaspa I agree it should be along the lines of 55/45, but I know for a fact Mayweather will try and be greedy. GBP must of felt like the advertising was a failure, which it was.
I think they spent most of the $30m they made on advertising  |
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Yes as a youtube boxing analyst by the name theboxingvoice has said in defense to pac vs cotto that didn't really advertise that much and it did so much buys already and GBP used like around 20 - 35$ million in advertising.
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| Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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A Pacquiao fight advertises itself.
What really advertises Mayweather´s fight is people´s desire to see him lose.
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| JR.VILLEGAS wrote: |
A Pacquiao fight advertises itself.
What really advertises Mayweather´s fight is people´s desire to see him lose. |
Can't say it any better! Except for the part that Mayweather uses his trashtalk too!
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| Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 1:15 am Post subject: |
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55/45 split with the Winner getting the bigger split??
would that interest Mayweather?
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| dicky69 wrote: |
55/45 split with the Winner getting the bigger split??
would that interest Mayweather? |
I like this idea the most. Everyone put their money where their mouth is! |
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