Where do you think Pac's career would have steered if he had stayed in GBP?

[shadeyfizzle]

Actually. On further thought. Pac's legacy would have been much different with gbp.

We wouldnt be talking floyd-pac because pac never had any intention of going to welter if it wasn't for delahoya.

But on the other hand we wouldnt be talking pac-marquez either. If you recall we had all just about forgotten who marquez was after his loss to chris john fighting a string of nobodies until he filled for pac against barrera. If pac-barrera 2 didnt get delayed that shutout of barrera would have been for the belt and marquez would have retired at 126 unable to land a big fight.

[edgarg]

Pacquiao was never with Golden Balls . He was with another promoter before Top Rank but Golden Balls tried to steal him in the well known well publicized event.
Yet, although no matter how well it's known, there are still many supposedly boxing followers who know nothing about it. So how boxing savvy could they be.

Oscar wanted MannyP. So he waited for an opportune moment to kidnap him. This was when he dragged Pacquiao off from the Los Angeles Airport after he'd just had a 16 hour plane trip, and no doubt had been awake for over 24 hours. He shlepped him to a restaurant even though MannyP begged to be allowed to go to his hotel to sleep. Oscar crammed him with food and drink, wouldn't take no for an answer.

Eventually he agreed just to be able to leave, and Oscar gave him a cheque for $250,000, (it may have been $500,000) and allowed him to leave. He reported this to Arum and the legal feathers started flying. Pacquiao returned the uncashed cheque, and signed a long term contract with Arum. Arum and Golden Balls sued each other but Oscar lost the case.

You see, Arum had also included a clause in Pacquiao's contract where it was illegal for him to even talk about a contract with another promoter whilst still inder contract to him. So Oscar lost out on every front, including expenses. Actually it was mediated where MannyP stayed with Top Rank and Golden Balls got a tiny %age of MannyP's purses when he'd fight a Golden Balls fighter.

This is as far as I can recall, it was confusing and complicated, I may have some things wrong, and I;m sure there must have been more to it, but I don't know for sure.

[Fighting Pride]

He never was with GBP. He was signed to Top Rank and then accepted a suitcase full of cash from sleazy De La Hoya who hijacked him with it when he stepped off a plane.

As for where he'd be if he was with GBP..how many true superstars have GBP built? None so far. Alvarez and Khan are up and coming, but still not there. Pac would likely have stayed the 250K PPV, 1-2 million dollar purse fighter he was before Top Rank got a hold of him. No-one could have done for Pacquiao what Top Rank and Arum did.

[JOM'S]

if he was GBP he would have probably fought Marquez, dela hoya, hatton and mosley (instead of cotto) and probabaly replace margarito and clottey with ortiz and berto then most probably PAC-PBF should have been an old story by now...