Comments Thread For: Arum Explains Why Pacquiao Would Face Margarito, Cotto

[Iceta Lives]

Hell, forget about Clottey. Here's a better example. David Diaz. Fight didn't even do 200,000 buys.

[WESS]

Clottey's been on HBO more than Bradley and has been in bigger fights than him too.

Mayweather only fights popular fighters. Pac fights and takes on challenges. Clearly Clottey who just came off a loss was a bigger challenge over the undefeated unexposed Tim Bradley who hasn't been on HBO as much...... lol

also did Clottey win in those "bigger" fights?

[renren40]

Gag order? What gag order?

they simply discussed business in boxing 101

no negotiation details revealed

[Kilrain]

Hell, forget about Clottey. Here's a better example. David Diaz. Fight didn't even do 200,000 buys.

That was before Pac really crossed over with the Oscar fight, pretty irrelevant info

[Vito Corleone]

You don't remember the last time you paid Pac a $10 million guarantee, Bob? Well, I do.

It was November, 2009 for the Cotto fight. Pac got a base purse of $7.5 million for that fight.

EIGHT MONTHS AGO.

[kingfaze19]

It's funny how when Floyd wouldn't fight Margarito or Cotto because they couldn't generate the PPV money, Arum tore into Floyd perpetuating this whole Floyd is scared mantra. Some fans bought into it clamoring for Floyd to fight everyone from Paul Williams to Devon Alexander, totally disregarding the business aspect of the sport. Now that Pac's team has verbally confirmed that this way of thinking isn't just soley a Floyd thing, maybe some of the hating will calm down.....

haha.. agree

[SluggerFan]

@Vito... You are referring to a base purse but everyone knew it would go way higher. Pacman's purse for the Cotto fight ended up being $22 million. So, even though the base was only $7.5, Pacman accepted because they knew it would go beyond $10 million and it went all they way up to $22 million. So, was Bob Arum lying? Well, strictly speaking, yes he was but I think most people knew what he was trying to say that Pacman will always get way more than $10 million a fight...

[SluggerFan]

@Vito, also you are misquoting that Pacman turned down a 14 day cut-off. Pacman's negotiating team said "We are done, we are going elsewhere" and were already walking out when Floyd threw out the 14 day cutoff. He never turned it down because it was never negotiated....

[goldenglove2]

That is some B.S. by Arum. IMO Clottey is not that much of a bigger name than Bradley in fact Bradley just might be more known than Clottey is. It is just easier for Arum to set all the advantages for Manny against his other fighters than it is for him to do that against another fighter who is not promoted by him.

Man Clottey has fought, Baldo, Cotto, Judah, Corales, and Margarito....dont tell me Bradley is more known ...lol.. I laff.

[badass316]

Arum talking bollocks and he knows it.Pacquiao fought Clottey for $7.5m and the Cotto fight wasnt guaranteed over $10m like he claims.Any fighter Pacquiao fights next apart from Mayweather wont be a guaranteed $10m.

Link?

I thought Pacquiao's guarantee for the Clottey fight was at least 12 million. And from what I remember he was certainly guaranteed over 10 mil in the Cotto fight.