Why do people think it will be hard to make Matthysee vs Rios/Pacquiao?

[Canelo Phresh]

Arum isnt leting Rios anywhere near Lucas. Rios makes hime money and Matthysse will beat him and doesnt make alot of money anyways. Rios Matthysse is bad business for Arum long term. He doesnt care about good fights just making money.

[-PBP-]

The only way Matthysse vs. Rios happens is if Matthysse beats Garcia, gets the WBC title and Rios becomes the mandatory.

That way the fight would go to purse bid and GBP and Top Rank wouldn't have to work with each other.

[DoktorSleepless]

Yeah, Pacquiao could fight whoever he wants even if they're with golden boy. It's everyone's dream to fight Pacquiao and I doubt Oscar would be such a dickhead that he would deprive one his fighters from fighting Pac over a stupid fued. With the lesser known fighters is more complicated though.

[Ringlife]

I can see a scenario in which Top Rank pays GBP set aside money, gives Matthyssee a 400-500k payday, and promotes the fight solo in order to make Rios vs Matthysse or Pacquiao vs Matthysse.

Why should GBP do that. Go ask Bob Arum to take some step aside money and see what happens GBP doesn't have to do anything like that.

[KnockUTheFukOut]

if you can fukin Make Vanes vs Lara you can make Matthysse vs Rios! Let Top Rank and GBP Bid for it like that did the Vanes vs Lara fight!

[BoxingGenius27]

Arum kept 100% of the revenue and was lead promoter in making Pac/Clottey and Pac/Margarito.

If he makes Pac vs. Matthysse, he would have to pay GBP a go away fee or co-promote the event and share the revenue. Why do that when he can make Pac/Rios, which will do better numbers than Pac/Matthysse, and still allow him to be lead promoter and keep all revenues in-house?

And on top of that, it's a high risk fight. If Matthysse wins, Arum's cash cow takes and L and he receives no benefit of Matthysse's future success. Its like Matthysse would have Pacquiao's name to launch his career but Arum won't benefit from it.

The only way Arum will work with GBP if there is an incentive for him to do it.

Because if he makes Pac-Rios, he loses one of his superstars with a Loss.

If he makes Mathysse-Rios/Pac, sure he splits some of the revenue, but if either of his guys win, he keeps their promotional status in tact.

[Khalid X]

Why should GBP do that. Go ask Bob Arum to take some step aside money and see what happens GBP doesn't have to do anything like that.

They were willing to do it for Marquez and seeing how they would have lost out on millions of dollars, I doubt it would be a problem with Matthyse and the chump change he makes.

This isnt an uncommon practice on boxing, and happens from time to time.