Comments Thread For: Arum: Pacquiao vs Marquez Will Be at 147 or No Fight

[hitking]

But Manny overlooks the top fighters to take on fighters on the down slide with names.

Exactly. Mayweather fights P4P elites that are on winning streaks and coming off signature performances. Pac fights solid welterweights that are coming off loses, rebuilding from loses, or coming off lacklsuter performances against lesser fighters.

Morales I- Morales coming off loss to Barerra

Morales II and III- Morales coming off being completely outclassed by Zahir Raheem. Why didn't Pac fight Raheem?

JMM II- JMM rebuilding from loss to Chris John

de la Hoya- coming off a lackluster performance against "2 Pound" Forbes

Hatton- dman near KO'd by Lazcano (who couldn't punch at lightweight) two fights prior to fighting Pac

Cotto- coming off a KO loss to Margarito and lackluster performance agaginst a B Class fighter in Clottey

Clottey- Coming off a loss to Cotto who Pac had just KO'd

Margarito- coming off being completely outclassed and KO'd by Mosley

Yeah, as I look at, its nothing to criticize here. Just an ATG doing his thing.

[AndyShitHot]

**** off Bob, don't even talk about Pacquiao-Martinez at 147, how about you start talking about Pacquiao-Marquez at 140.... nah wait a minute just take the easy route of Pacquiao-Berto at 147. Wait a minute actually we better make sure even Berto is drained, take it down to 144lbs

[brown mamba]

i dont know how people can forget pac fought barrera, morales, and marquez all in their primes. morales was on his way down, but still fought him at a reasonable time.

[LeadUppercut]

Pac makes all boxers fight at catch weights that benifit him but wont budge 3 or 4 pounds to fight little marquez? Pac is really acting like a *****! Makes everybody starve to fight him n now wants marquez to blow himself up so he could be easy pickens!Pac with his fake tittles is full of it!

duckers ***** he has never weigh 147 he weigh 144...it aint roach or ariza even arum its pacroid the ***** he dont wana face fighters that present threads cuz he will get exposed or ko again

if it wasnt for catchweights he would never be where he is. i think is a bunch of bs, pac can make the fight at 142 at least. pacman knows that if he fights lower then 140 he would loose the fight.

But Manny overlooks the top fighters to take on fighters on the down slide with names.

They need to make a special weight division for Manny Pacquiao, and also craft a new "diamond belt" to honor these special events.

The new weight division will have no upper or lower limits. It will look somthing like a lottery ticket, where Manny can just fill in his opponents name, tick the check-boxes that apply, and then hand the card to his opponent so that they know what weight they are allowed to make.

The new "diamond belt" could, of course, only be won by Manny.

[LeadUppercut]

**** off Bob, don't even talk about Pacquiao-Martinez at 147, how about you start talking about Pacquiao-Marquez at 140.... nah wait a minute just take the easy route of Pacquiao-Berto at 147. Wait a minute actually we better make sure even Berto is drained, take it down to 144lbs

He was actually talking about Marquez at 147, but you are correct.

[LeadUppercut]

i dont know how people can forget pac fought barrera, morales, and marquez all in their primes. morales was on his way down, but still fought him at a reasonable time.

Folks are mostly complaining about the rubbish during the last 5 years, not the 5 years before that.

Since Marquez, Manny will not fight a skilled boxer / counter-puncher, and he will not fight anybody who is on top of their game.

[TheMexHurricane]

WBA/WBO lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez is pushing very hard for a third fight with Manny Pacquiao. The three division champion from Mexico would like the fight to take place at a max catch-weight of 144-pounds. Top Rank CEO Bob Arum, who promotes Pacquiao, is not going to budge on the weight. Arum, along with Pacquiao's trainer Freddie Roach, are taking a hard line with Pacquiao's next fight taking place at the full welterweight limit of 147-pounds.

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147 only? Arum's demands about Pac's opponents' weights are like a **********'s panties--- up and down, up and down, up and down.

[hitking]

i dont know how people can forget pac fought barrera, morales, and marquez all in their primes. morales was on his way down, but still fought him at a reasonable time.

Pac fought Morales in the middle of a 1-5 streak. Sandwiched between Pac's wins over Morales, Morales was outclassed by Zahir Raheem and beat convincingly by David Diaz. Can't see how beating a guy losing convincingly to C Class competition are great wins for an ATG.

[tudedude]

if this happens jmm better not try to add any pounds that will slow him down..his chances depend on him being at his optimal weight. And yeah, hell no he deserve's 50/50.

[check hook]

I know Bob Arum did not just say that, "it is ****** to ask the welterweight champion come down or starve himself down below the welterweight limit." I guess the old man forgot that he asked the then welterweight champ Cotto to come down to 145 And Roach asked then welterweight champ Mosley to come down to 142. These guys are hilarious. The only thing worse is the Pacwh*res who buy into this bull****.

great summary. Now i can just co-sign this. CO-SIGN!