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Marquez KO'D Pacquiao Harder LMAO!! Anyway Paradigm can't touch his Money in Phillipines Banks but they can take earnings from MP Promotions in USA!
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The headline of the article shows that boxing scene are PAC haters. Dudes didn’t talk about his exhibition bout but plaster every headline when Floyd fights lolComment
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Oscar was Champion, coming off a win by TKO of Mayorga! If he was shopworn @ 154, in 2007, what was he @ 147, in 2008? Who gives a f-k about cheating-ass Margarito? The goal was Oscar!
Floyd says he should get credit for making the fight
May 4, 2007
Dan Rafael
ESPN
The first serious step toward making the fight came in April 2006, when Mayweather exercised a clause in his contract with promoter Top Rank. For $750,000, Mayweather could leave Bob Arum's company, a necessary step, given the rancor that exists between De La Hoya and Arum, also De La Hoya's former promoter.
Mayweather anted up and became a free agent. Had Arum remained involved in Mayweather's career, it is doubtful the fight would have happened.
"I wrote a check. 'Someone take this over to his office.' I need to be free," Mayweather said.
Now he heads into what is poised to become the biggest grossing nonheavyweight fight in history without any contractual ties to a promoter or network.
"I'm such a great businessman, I don't got ties to nobody. Nobody," he said.
After Mayweather agreed on financial terms -- a purse of at least $10 million that will probably increase to between $15 million and $18 million once the pay-per-view numbers are tallied -- he gave in to De La Hoya on every point just to get him in the ring.
Gloves? De La Hoya wanted Reyes brand, the "puncher's glove." Even though Mayweather always wears Winning brand, which better protects his brittle hands, he agreed.
"I can't wear the gloves I want to wear, but he can wear the gloves he wants to wear, so he said, 'Let's put that in the contract.' So I said, 'OK, no problem.'"
Then there was the weight. Mayweather preferred to fight at welterweight (147 pounds), where he is champion. De La Hoya, who holds a title at junior middleweight (154) insisted that Mayweather come up to his weight. Again, Mayweather agreed.
The fight is one Mayweather says he has wanted his entire career. In fact, Mayweather said, he remembers seeing De La Hoya win a 1992 gold medal and thinking someday they would fight. Mayweather was still four years away from receiving an Olympic bronze medal.
"There was only so long he could duck me," Mayweather said. "There was only so long he could dodge me. In 1992, I knew this was going to happen.
"I knew this was going to happen when I signed with Top Rank. That's why I never got close to Oscar, because I knew we were going to fight."
Mayweather said he can't stand that De La Hoya gives him so little credit for the success of the promotion of the fight.
"I make a fight like this. I'm the one selling this fight," Mayweather said. "I need a good dance partner, he needs a good dance partner."
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I wonder does Pacquiao even have $5M dollars left from his boxing career?Comment
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Manny has already come back. He is fighting exhibitions and he has another one planned for July.Comment
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