Showtime exec says he'll reach out about a Pac May fight. It's TIME!

[Spoon23]

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-pacquiao-mayweather-showtime-20131126,0,3476896.story#axzz2lnCFiqL2

By Lance Pugmire

November 26, 2013, 2:49 p.m.

Achieving the impossible has to start somewhere, and after so many failed tries to make a Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Manny Pacquiao super-fight, there's an olive branch being extended.

Showtime Executive Vice President Stephen Espinoza, whose premium network has four fights remaining in its exclusive deal with the unbeaten Mayweather, said he plans to reach out this week to Pacquiao's promoter Bob Arum to gauge interest in the bout.

Despite Arum's denials, Espinoza said he had made repeated efforts to talk to Arum on the telephone.

"But I haven't tried in awhile," Espinoza told The Times. "I will call Arum. This is an enticing enough opportunity to do it."

Although Mayweather seems headed to a May date in Las Vegas against England's Amir Khan, Pacquiao revived his stock with a convincing unanimous-decision victory over Oxnard's Brandon Rios over the weekend in Macao, China, after a brutal knockout loss to Juan Manuel Marquez in December.

Espinoza was clear that if the bout could be made it would be on Showtime pay-per-view, citing Mayweather's exclusive deal that started with unanimous-decision victories over Robert Guerrero in May and Saul "Canelo" Alvarez in September.

"HBO, for whatever reason, doesn't have an exclusive deal with Manny Pacquiao, so there's no reason it can't be on Showtime," Espinoza said.

Mayweather's advisor Leonard Ellerbe and promoter Richard Schaefer, the Golden Boy Promotions chief executive who has assisted in the promotion of all of Mayweather's fights since 2007, did not immediately return telephone and e-mail messages left by The Times Tuesday.

Arum, working Tuesday to repair Pacquiao's tax issues that saw the fighter's bank accounts in the Philippines frozen Tuesday, said "I know of no calls" Espinoza "has made to me or my secretary in two years," and that the promoter doesn't want to engage in discussion of Mayweather-Pacquiao in the newspaper.

But Arum added, "My idea is to go back to the model that was used in the" Mike Tyson-Lennox Lewis "fight, where both networks did it.

"Let's ... everyone be adults and put the ... fight on," Arum said. "Whoever wins in the ring, wins in the ring. But talking about it before we do anything is ******."

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-pacquiao-mayweather-showtime-20131126,0,3476896.story#ixzz2lpchLh7j

[Spoon23]

Floyd is tied with showtime contract. He has to agree if Showtime wants it. Hope has finally come. Can't walk out on this one Floyd. Show time wants it.

Originally Posted by RockyIV
I thought about this too but what you got to remember is there isn't another canelo at goldenboy that Floyd can make that kind of in-house money with. A rematch isn't lucrative either.

There's no way a fight with khan brakes a million buys, I'd guess it might even do less than the Guerrero fight. Let's estimate it at 800k.

So if Floyd next fight does 800k buys, and a mayweather pacquiao fight does over 2 million, even a 50-50 split generates more for Floyd. Expect a split to be about 60/40 or 70/30 though. Lots of money to be made!
Good point.

This means-
Showtime wants PAC, coz money wise that's the way to go.

The better deal to take for showtime and Floyd to profit is the Pac fight. I read somewhere that showtime didn't make money for both guerrero and the Canelo fight. He has a 300 million deal with showtime and 6 fight contract. Showtime of course needs to make money not only floyd. In that case, Floyd must concede if the numbers points to Pac. This is defintely a good sign. Floyd even if he wants to duck Pacquiao, he actually cant coz it takes 2 to tango and the other guy who can create a good ppv event is Pacquiao.

Floyd only has 2 options khan and pac. Pac is the logical choice because it will give him better numbers. If he goes for khan. That is obviously an instant duck coz there is more money to be made with pac.

[Canelo Phresh]

**** HBO like the article says Manny doesnt have an exclusive contract with them. I hope so but its still an extremely unlikely possibility.

[The Problem Child]

If this happens... "Mayweather breaks Showtime deal; Signs 100 year contract with Nickelodeon".

[Jam Jars]

Pacquiao doesn't have a contract with HBO but Arum has a deal with them doesn't he? Which is basically the same as Pacquiao having a deal with them.

[Jloro]

lol lets get to it

[Vasyl’s dad]

I smell a vacation on the horizon. "I-I need to sp-spend some time w-with my kids."

[Phenom]

"Espinoza was clear that if the bout could be made it would be on Showtime pay-per-view, citing Mayweather's exclusive deal that started with unanimous-decision victories over Robert Guerrero in May and Saul "Canelo" Alvarez in September."
Arum "My idea is to go back to the model that was used in the" Mike Tyson-Lennox Lewis "fight, where both networks did it.



Yeah its not going to happen but it will get you interested enough in Pacquiao next fight in April since Mayweather name is tie to it

[Spoon23]

Everyone knows its too much of a big money not to be made. Show time exec knows it. Strike while the iron is enticing enough to do it.

[Jloro]

Watch Mayweather lose to Khan in April after agreeing to fight Pac in september lollolol