Comments Thread For: Arum on Bradley-Marquez, Pacquiao-Rios PPV Buyrates

[big_james10]

Since Arum is predicting up to 800,000 PPV buys for Pacquaio/Rios, that means it will actually do 400,000 (less than the 500,000 for Pac/Bradley). His prediction for Marquez/Bradley is 350,000, which means it wil be lucky if does 200,000.

Of course, Fat Dan Rafael will take whatever number Bob gives him after the fights and run with them as if they were gospel. He won't use his fake sources to get the real numbers as he supposedly did with Mayweather/Guerrerro because that would mean that he will not receive a press pass for future Top Rank fights and will not receive the free buffets and gifts that boxing writers get for doing Arum's bidding.

[iloveboxing2]

Fuq Arum. both fight should be on Boxing After Dark. 200K and 500K are more realistic.

[Reloaded]

Rios will give Pac a tougher fight than Canelo gave Floyd. Even slow an sluggish Cotto gave Floyd a tougher fight than Canelo. Margarito gave Pacman a tough fight, only difference is Pacman didn't wilt under the pressure of Marg he fought through the pain and pushed Margo back, you have to be able to dig deep against a guy like Margo.

Rios is a tough fighter, even Bernard Hopkins said so, why is it so hard to see it? and B hop is a golden boy guy.

You say smaller as if Rios is smaller than Pac, stop twisting it, this is what you guys do you will say oh why is pac fighting a lightweight, hoping people will believe he is really fighting a light weight when Rios is a huge 180 pounder at 5 foot 9 who was draining himself to make that weight.

HaHa , Rios will give him a tougher fight because Rios is not near as good as Canelo and Manny is not near as good as Floyd .

Bhop said Floyd is top 3 ATG did you believe him , or what he says about Rios is truth but what he says about Floyd is lies .

Rios is 180 pounder you say , lol then he is fat slob thats never trained as a top fighter should .

I get the impression the better you can pump up B grade Rios the more you can jump up and down when Manny outclasses the bum .

[Grimgash]

HaHa , Rios will give him a tougher fight because Rios is not near as good as Canelo and Manny is not near as good as Floyd .

Bhop said Floyd is top 3 ATG did you believe him , or what he says about Rios is truth but what he says about Floyd is lies .

Rios is 180 pounder you say , lol then he is fat slob thats never trained as a top fighter should .

I get the impression the better you can pump up B grade Rios the more you can jump up and down when Manny outclasses the bum .

Wait people are actually trying to make Rios credible as a top teir opponent? I admit he's a decent manny opponent, for where manny is at in his career now, but let's be real.

Rios was a bottom 10 guy at 140, lost his last fight against another bottom 10 guy. He's moving up in weight for a fight with a former p4p fighter. He didn't clear out his division he'll he didn't really beat any of the top in it. His boxing is not at a quality level, but he has heart and decent pop. The biggest issue is Rios was a bigger guy at lower weights and that's what he had going for him, a la Chavez. He's losing his biggest advantage moving up in weight..... it's a decent where are you fight for Manny but he should be expected even at this stage, to walk through Rios easily. If he doesn't he's pretty much done on a championship level.

TL;DR version - Rios is not a great fighter, nor will Pac winning be an accomplishment. This fight is a kin to Cotto's last as a hype me up / I still got it fight.

[moonshineman]

Little Floyd Keeps Running From the guy from the Phillipines

Grimgash,


How can you say Little Floyd is much better than Pacquiao, when Little Floyd is too chicken chit to fight Pacquiao?.

[hhs661]

I got this fight at the bottom 3 of credible fights since moving up from 130.. it might just be the worst

[big_james10]

Wait people are actually trying to make Rios credible as a top teir opponent? I admit he's a decent manny opponent, for where manny is at in his career now, but let's be real.

Rios was a bottom 10 guy at 140, lost his last fight against another bottom 10 guy. He's moving up in weight for a fight with a former p4p fighter. He didn't clear out his division he'll he didn't really beat any of the top in it. His boxing is not at a quality level, but he has heart and decent pop. The biggest issue is Rios was a bigger guy at lower weights and that's what he had going for him, a la Chavez. He's losing his biggest advantage moving up in weight..... it's a decent where are you fight for Manny but he should be expected even at this stage, to walk through Rios easily. If he doesn't he's pretty much done on a championship level.

TL;DR version - Rios is not a great fighter, nor will Pac winning be an accomplishment. This fight is a kin to Cotto's last as a hype me up / I still got it fight.

Good analysis. You are right. The top of the 140-pound weight division has Garcia, Matthysse, Peterson. At welterweight, they have Mayweather, Guerrerro, Alexander, Broner and Thurman. All of these guys are better than Rios. Yet Pacquaio is fighting a bottom 10 junior welterweight at 147 pounds. And, yet, these p*****s on this site call Mayweater a coward.