Manny Pacquiao signs extension with Top Rank

[AntonTheMeh]

i stopped reading at scott christ.

what?

[Simply Zyzz]

Manny must be an idiot of astronomical proportions. I bet he used to take candy from strangers when he was a kid.

lookslegit.jpg

manny when he's being handed a contract:

[Light_Speed]

Goddamn! How dumb can Pac be? He doesn't need a promoter at this stage. Now we know for sure the Floyd fight will never happen, not that I'm interested in it but I just don't like the fact that Arum is gonna get paid off of Pac's blood and sweat.

[ronnie_N.]

so 50 cent is now part of Top Rank?...

[CHOWWOKKA]

Goddamn! How dumb can Pac be? He doesn't need a promoter at this stage. Now we know for sure the Floyd fight will never happen, not that I'm interested in it but I just don't like the fact that Arum is gonna get paid off of Pac's blood and sweat.

Bob has his Pac's baby nuts in a jar...

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

Actually, Pacquiao signed this extension some time ago. Not sure why it's being peddled like brand new news.

[elfag]

Are you ****ing kidding me?

He signed an extension with TR to get a fight with floyd? That makes no sense. Shafter could get him a 1 fight deal as a free agent and he would make way more than he can under top rank. Shafter wont charge the 27% that bob does.

[4Corners]

I firmly believe Arum has mind control over Pacquiao.

[elfag]

PAC is probably fed up with Floyd and all his ducking. Arum probably promise PAC 20mill plus every fight so PAC took it knowing his career is winding down.

The guarantees are published by the commission. Pac's guarantees are like 6 to 7 million. Yeah he makes more based on PPV but I am sure TR clouds the math so he isnt getting as much as he thinks he is.

[edgarg]

By Scott Christ

Manny Pacquiao has reportedly signed a contract extension with Top Rank, and a rumored part of the deal is an assurance that he'll face Floyd Mayweather in 2013.

Fight Hype reports this evening that Manny Pacquiao has signed a contract extension with Top Rank, which will carry his boxing career through the year 2014 -- and that a source tells them that it may be due to an assurance that he'll fight Floyd Mayweather in 2013.

From the report:

According to an eyewitnesses on the scene, Dena duBoef, Vice President of Marketing and the daughter of Bob Arum, escorted Pacquiao to a private room where he had a closed-door meeting with Arum, Koncz, and 50 Cent. It's unclear as to exactly what was discussed, however, our source strongly believes that Pacquiao was given a verbal guarantee that, with the help of 50 Cent and Tommy Smalls, an April fight with Floyd Mayweather would indeed take place, convincing Pacquiao to sign the contract extension. "He thinks he has that fight coming, but that fight isn't ever going to happen," our source added.

It's an odd turn in the 186-year saga of "Mayweather vs Pacquiao," arguably boxing's all-time greatest fable where nothing actually happens at any point inside of a boxing ring.

If this is the case -- and it's speculation, but worth noting -- then I can't imagine what the point of promising Pacquiao a fight you have no intention of really making would be, unless the idea here is that Mayweather is the one who won't take the fight, not Top Rank, and given the source, I doubt that's the story being told. Though anything, of course, would have to be on Floyd's terms, and Floyd's terms aren't something Top Rank is willing to do, and Top Rank's terms aren't something Floyd is willing to do, and ... ah, screw it, you know all the rest by now.

It's a rumor, but an intriguing rumor, and could represent a big, weird changing of the guard in this whole tiresome story. If Manny were, for the sake of argument, given a guarantee he'll fight Mayweather, and then he doesn't, where does it all go from there?

http://www.badlefthook.com/2012/10/1...or-boxing-news

You're talkig anti-Arum nonsense, which immediately puts in doubt anything sensible you might say. Top Rak has been trying very hard to make this fight fir the past few years, keeping in mind that Pacquiao was the Fighter of the Decade, and top dog. They can only promote the fight when it's mak=de. The details and agreements are made by the fighter and their managers with advice when asked for, by the trainers. Get ober it. You guys constantly see a monster under the bed which isn't there.

The one to decide if ther'll be a fight is Mayweather. It's all squarely on the shouders of Mayweather...as Keith Kizer said already a couple of years ago. And all of Mayweather's actions and announcements since only have reinforced this comment.

it seems that no matter how blatant the proof is, even from Mayweahter's own over-large mouth, you crazies just won't believe it, probably don't even hear it, being tuned only to deifying Mayweather, like any Maybug.