Pacquiao-Margarito bout shaping up

[War Dinamita]

who knows. pac and arum prolly has a pact more binding than a contract. Manny looks comfortable being with arum, vice versa. i dont think anyone can promote pac better than arum can.

Arum is taking all his money and he still has to pay Roach and GBP. Manny doesn't need him anymore because he's a superstar.

[maverickuk2]

manny will never fight another fighter who isnt with top rank again...cause everyone else will demand ost's..and he ducking them like the plague..lol

TRUE STORY. and i swear someone said ages ago that arum was the one blocking the pac vs may fight and he got alot of slack, i think he may be right.
BOB ARUM is a d*ck head.

[Sweet Jesus]

hehe 50k fans in attendance and 700k buys later. sounds like hes increasing his fanbase. Pac-Marg will graze a millie buys.

51 thousand Pac fans, not boxing fans. PPV sales for Pacquiao fights fell from 1.25M for the Cotto fight to 700K for the Clottey fight.

Dwindling fans. Pacroid is ruining boxing.

[GT-R]

Arum is taking all his money and he still has to pay Roach and GBP. Manny doesn't need him anymore because he's a superstar.

Floyd dont know **** about pacs and arums contract and percentage cut. noone does.

[War Dinamita]

Floyd dont know **** about pacs and arums contract and percentage cut. noone does.

Arum takes 80% of everything Pac makes.

[GT-R]

51 thousand Pac fans, not boxing fans. PPV sales for Pacquiao fights fell from 1.25M for the Cotto fight to 700K for the Clottey fight.

Dwindling fans. Pacroid is ruining boxing.

too much hate in you brudda.

[Sweet Jesus]

too much hate in you brudda.

Everytime I try to talk boxing nowadays with casuals, they just tell me to shut up unless Mayweather-Pac is happening.

Thanks for the putting the nail in boxing's coffin Pacroid.

[-GDS-]

At least Clottey was a top 5 welter at the time. In the one fight in which we know Marg didnt have loaded gloves, he was dominated every second of every round. Now he's having fighting a B.S. fighter for a B.S. title at 154, and is going to fight Pac. Marg most likely wouldn't beat Cory Sprinks. Certainly not in the past, and probably not today. After Marg, who's next? The great Kendall Holt? This is getting straight up rediculous. Only reason Marg's getting this fight is because he's garbage. They're far better fighters for Pac to fight even if it's not Floyd, like Berto and Bradley, and if Pac's going to fight the likes of Clottey, he really can't say the those guys aren't viable opponents. And if you think Arum's posturing, you're wrong. He'll have a B.S. neogiation for two weeks with Mayweather to save face, then get a fight signed with Marg in two days. The Contracts are probably be written right now. The whole thing is just garbage, and it's no surprise that that his fans are behind it.

[Sutekh uvdabrix]

My interest in watching pac fight has gone completely off the table... since the cotto fight... he just gets lames tossed in front of him by the joo.

Shane and floyd 1 and potentially 2 will smash sales of all packs fights and also both shane and floyds legacies will completely dwarf pacs

[Amazinger]

MANILA, Philippines - A fight between Manny Pacquiao and Antonio Margarito is shaping up even faster than the one between the Filipino pound-for-pound champion and his predecessor, Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Bob Arum, the ageless Top Rank chief, thinks that with all the obstacles standing between Pacquiao, Mayweather and the greatest fight of all time, a fight with Margarito would make more sense.

“I think the chances are very, very good, very, very good,” said Arum during a recent press conference in Los Angeles, announcing Margarito’s May 8 bout with WBC light-middleweight champ Roberto Garcia.

It will be Margarito’s first fight since he lost to Shane Mosley in January last year when he was caught using, without his knowledge as he claims, illegal hand wraps, leading to the suspension of his fight license in the United States.

The Margarito-Garcia fight will take place in Aguacalientes, Mexico, and depending on how Margarito does, a fight with Pacquiao, sometime in September until November, in Nevada, Texas or Florida, looms.

“I think that would be an interesting fight based on how he (Margarito) does in this fight and obviously if he fought Manny Pacquiao it would be in the United States,” said Arum, who also defended Margarito against the touchy hand wraps issue.

“And, if that would be his (Margarito) next fight then we will apply for a license in the state that the fight is going to take place and it couldn’t be in California for the reason that Manny Pacquiao won’t fight in California because of state taxes,” said Arum.

Only three states in the US can host a Pacquiao fight because of friendlier taxes, and they’re Nevada, Florida and the new favorite, Texas, following its successful staging of the Pacquiao-Clottey at the massive Cowboys Stadium last March.

If Margarito beats Garcia, he can stake the 154-lb crown against Pacquiao, and give Pacquiao a shot at an eighth wonder, an eighth world title in eight different weight divisions, with or without a catch weight.

Margarito, who stunned the world when he lost to Mosley, likes the idea.

“I love to get that fight (with Pacquiao). I think everybody’s talking about that. It’s a great possibility. We’re both with Top Rank so the possibility is always there,” he said through Top Rank pointman, Ricardo Jimenez.

Arum said Margarito deserves the fight with Pacquiao.

“Because I think a great injustice had been done and I’m not going to give in to idle speculations that he had to know (about the illegal wraps). What do you mean he had to know? Have somebody wrap your hands and put somebody put something in the (tape) and see if you know before you say ‘he had to know,’” said Arum.

Marv Dumon of The Examiner enumerated the reasons why a Pacquiao-Margarito fight would likely happen, and on top of the board is the great possibility of Mosley, the 38-year-old WBA welterweight champion, beating Mayweather.

If that happens, then Mayweather, 40-0, would most likely exercise the rematch clause stipulated in his fight contract with Mosley. Dumon said it would actually take Mosley two straight wins over Mayweather before he lands on Pacquiao’s lap, and by that time he’d be forty.

Pacquiao said he’s rooting for Mosley.

A Mayweather victory over Mosley does not clear the path for a fight with Pacquiao, a fight that could earn the boxers $40 million each, because of the drug-testing issue and the court case which Pacquiao had filed against the Mayweathers

Pacquiao can get as much as $20 million against Margarito, and that won’t be too bad.

http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx...bCategoryId=69

**** that fight!!! and Arum too if that fight ever happen.