Comments Thread For: Dana White Lashes Out at Arum Over Pacquiao-Marquez

[titan m]

I wont say Pac Marquez 5 is the best fight out there, I personally think Floyd-Canelo or Floyd-Martinez are the two best out there, but I will say that I will pay to see pac jmm 5 and it will do much better business than all of the 3 prior. Lot of questions to be answered for that fight

Marquez answered any questions when he knocked Pacquiao out. Would there still be questions to answer if Pacquiao knocked out Marquez? i somehow doubt it, a fifth fight is pointless. Marquez already crushed Pacquiao but the Pacquiao fanatics just cant accept it, oh well, KO rd 6 is what the records will read forever so get used to it.

[Furn]

Firstly May v PAC was most likely never gonna happen regardless of who Pac fought and secondly if it does ever happen it will still be huge.

Lewis getting koed didn't stop Lewis Tyson being huge.

PAC just needs a good win over someone decent and the hype is back on.

Seriously who here isn't watching if they fight in September next year?

[R-NEAL]

Dana is right to say this was about money. But everyone is leaving out an important fact. Marquez was never Bob Arum's and Team Pacs first choice. They were trying to rematch Miguel Cotto for the same type of money. The only reason the fight didnt happen was because Cotto refused to fight Pac at a catchweight again. He even said it, from the horse's mouth. Arum is even on record saying Cotto was scared to take another beating from Manny. If Cotto had agreed to that catchweight,, this never would have happened to Pac. He would have beat up Cotto again. And we all know there was NO money to be made with a Bradley rematch. The only choice Pac had was to fight Marquez. Besides, Pac needed a money fight to show that he could draw as much as Floyd, so lets be real. Pac wanted that money too.

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[Vasyl’s dad]

Not sure if everyone is just being ****** but Dana White is 100% right on this.. Arum made this fight for the sole purpose of generating money, every journalist said the same thing!!!! What nobody knew was that Manny would get ko cold in front of the world and now the big fight has been completely buried!..

Bob Arum, you ***ed this up.. Big time!

I thought "boxing is a business"? why wouldn't a money making promoter not put on the best money making fight possible?


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[EL ANIMAL]

i agree. i always knew this wasnt a good idea. something just didnt feel right fighting marquez again.

[fitefan]

I am all for hating Bob Arum, I didn't even agree with the fight but criticizing Arum for making a fight because Pacquiao was likely to lose is beyond deplorable. As a promoter it is ****** in the sense that he has ruined his product but that only illustrates what is wrong with the sport.

arum puts pac in with fighters he KNOWS pac won't lose to for the most part

[-Antonio-]

I agree with everything White said here. Manny wanted this fight though. I blame Roach more than Arum.

[Shogunofharlem1]

that is the only reason any promoter makes any fight if you think otherwise you are sadly mistaken

I think he means "quick money" . He lost a lot more than he could have made last weekend.

[millcitymauler]

I'm no fan of Arum, but if promoting is about making money, he's actually the SMARTEST promoter in the history of the world...sadly, what does that say about our sport?