Manny Pacquiao paid cutman Miguel Diaz $50,000

[FromAfrica]

Under the heading of “nice work if you can get it,” we now file the position of cutman for Manny Pacquiao.

Miguel Diaz, who was fired by Miguel Cotto after the Boricua ****er after he lost to Antonio Margarito, landed on his feet in Pacman’s corner as the stop the bleeding if any expert.

I’ve learned that the kind and generous Pacquiao paid Argentina native Diaz a cool $50,000 for his services during his 12th round TKO over Cotto Nov. 14 at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino.

It should be a cushy Christmas in the Casa de Diaz in Las Vegas.

Any way you view it, it’s a princely sum for a job which can only take 11 minutes of actual work time (cuts can only be treated between rounds). And Pacman was not cut in his demolition job on Cotto.

As you probably know, head trainer Freddie Roach went home that night with a check for $1.1 million.

Based on Pacman’s purse of $7 million—and not including the PPV TV revenues to come—that is a nice percentage, even above the traditional 10 percent trainers get paid.

I’d like to report to you what chief Cotto trainer Jose Santiago got paid but there were no fight night deductions taken from the boxer’s purse.

In Nevada, a boxer has to authorize separate checks to be carved out of his contract purse. If the fighter doesn’t do this, trainers and cutmen then have to be paid directly by the fighter.

(mlcmarley@aol.com)


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[FloppyDiskz]

Pac also pays some dude at Wild Card $200 a week to wash the car he rolls in.

[Heru]

He's actually getting paid less than what he should get. Boxers probably have a set limit as soon as they reach a certain point, but cutmen usually get 2-3%.

Extremely hard to get to that level of a cutmen though. You see the same 2 cutmen (Diaz and Santiago) working pretty much every corner.

[Bretty Poy32]

how much did miguel diaz suppose to get?

[Left Hook Tua]

He's actually getting paid less than what he should get. Boxers probably have a set limit as soon as they reach a certain point, but cutmen usually get 2-3%.

Extremely hard to get to that level of a cutmen though. You see the same 2 cutmen (Diaz and Santiago) working pretty much every corner.

2-3% of $22 million is $440,000-$660,000.

he's not paying no cutman that kind of money.

[Left Hook Tua]

how much did miguel diaz suppose to get?

queloque is right. usually a percentage. 2% or so.

[Bretty Poy32]

queloque is right. usually a percentage. 2% or so.

probably if pac got cut, hes gonna get paid more?

[Khalid X]

You do know that paying these guys all this money and/or all these expenses such as the rented mansion cotto paid for doen't really hurt them when you think about it.

Earning as much as these fighters do, they are more than likely gonna get ****d as far as Taxes are concerned. By paying all these guys this money and also paying for all these expenses actually is a good thing because they can use that as a Tax right off. I'd rather see people around me (that contribute to my success) get paid than having to fork it over to the government. Anybody who knows about the tax system, knows exactly what Im talking about.

[Heru]

2-3% of $22 million is $440,000-$660,000.

he's not paying no cutman that kind of money.

Lol. Yeah, but you would count it at the 7 mil base fee, not the total with the extra ppv percentage. It'd still be 140k+, which is ridiculous for 11 minutes of circumstantial work.

[Left Hook Tua]

probably if pac got cut, hes gonna get paid more?

nah..... whether you get cut or not doesn't effect how much you get paid.