Manny may not be a household name...but really...in each sport theres maybe a handful of "household names" (i consider it a household name when a person not interested in any sport knows one of its players)...soccer has 1 (beckham) golf 1 (tiger)...NBA...maybe about 5...in boxing right now...MAYBE 2 with Roy Jones and De La Hoya...
To people complaining about low ratings....as a person that works for an advertising agency...all i have to say is promotion=ratings.
Taylor is one of my favorite fighters (overall), but I think putting him in with Hopkins now will have the same result as Vargas vs. Trinidad and Reid vs. Trinidad...just not quite ready and was never able to recover.
I think the main reason the ratings are low when Manny fights is because ALLLLL the filipinos (myself included) turn it into a feast and have one big party and watch it in one house.
no u take a look...joppy out jabbed taylor for the first round...taylor got thrown off guard because joppy has that little weird lean back move
Looks like he leaned back all the way to the canvas.
Although I think Manny won (barely) the first fight with JMM...he cannot look past JMM...
That being said, I think Manny will KO Morales judging from how MAB peppered Morales with left hands all night.
Speaking of "sign"...it was Mayweather who did not want to sign...I don't get y...I mean...in my opinion Mayweather should be able to handle him...but why didn't he sign??? Their deadline was yesterday I believe at 4PM...if Mayweather wanted it, it was his.
If you believe that then you believe anything.
There is a reason why Pac doesn't get those numbers GUARANTEED.
Thats because he ain't making that.
Floyds contract guarantees him those huge pay days he gets.
It's in the paper work filed with the commission.
Manny on the other hand got Bob telling the media that pac is guaranteed 25 million but files a contract with the commission saying 6 million.
The reason......because he can't really guarantee those huge purses.
Now if PPV sells are what Bob really says they are( which they are not) then yes manny may get the 18 million but.............
subtract 33 1/3% for Bob, 10% for Roach, Konz %, and manny is left with what?
Mayweather gets 100% of his money and only pays out flat fees to GB/AL/Trainer/Leonard
I already know one of your numbers is wrong. Roach gets a flat fee not a percentage. WIth that said, I don't know if I can rely/believe your other numbers.
Why hasn't any ask Arum what he now thinks about May 2nd since Oscar and Canelo our stepping down from it. Is May 2nd still an issue or not?!!:lol1:
Link pls. where it says Oscar and Canelo are stepping down from May 2. Thanks!
Mayweather is adamant on May 2nd VERY interesting:
Mayweather in the past when they were trying to get a fight scheduled for June, Mayweather said that the date was too close and that "everybody knows it takes 6 months to promote a fight of that magnitude". And now, because he knows that date is taken, he wants to do it on May 2nd (which by my calculation is inside the 6 month time frame).
I believe his second date of choice is February 29, 2015.
Roach is crazy and some of you Pac fans are too. Brandon Rios was suppose to lose and lose by knockout. You know who Rios is? He's a b-level fighter who just moved up to 147 for the first time ever. He's a slow non skilled fighter who apparently has no jab when he fights and lost his last fight before he climbed in the ring with Manny.
You're right, he's supposed to fight someone that jumps up TWO weigh classes like Guerrero did.
I agree with the elevated seating for judges. I also think they should introduce .5s to the scoring system. A guy whooping another guy the entire round but not knocking him down (I'd score this 10-9) should count more than having to give it to one of the fighters in a close round (10-9.5).
Even til this day Manny doesn't have an answer why he refused testing. Manny's main argument was he didn't want to be tested(blood drawn) the day or the day before the fight. So Floyd offered to be flexible on his only demand and offered Manny a two week cut off to insure Manny that he won't be tested on or before the day of the fight and Manny grew feathers and said no bwhahahah.......
Link of your "facts" pls.