Originally posted by AgainstTheRopes
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Pacquiao could not have "went through" with anything. When Oscar met him at the airport, dragged him AGAINST HIS WILL to a restaurant after ManntP's exhausting 16 hour flight and wouldn't take NO for an answer, he was playing the old Don King crap, the way he stole Hassim Rahman from Cedric Kushner. LOOK IT UP. Poor guy was too polite to tell him to buzz off.
He pushed and shoved MannyP into signing an illegal contract, when the poor guy was falling asleep at the table. His friend and lawyer Gacal said it was O.K. because it wouldn't be legal and MannyP just wanted to get away to bed. He already had a valid contract with Top Rank in which was a clause forbidding him to even discuss a contract with another promoter.
The resulting litigation agreement gave Golden Balls a very tiny percentage of any Pacquiao purse when Pacquiao would be fighting a Golden Balls fighter. That was the deal, I read about, and I'm pretty sure it was the first thing to be cancelled when Oscar retreated to a sanitarium and begged Arum's pardon. They gave top Rank "an undisclosed amount" in compensation. Likely multi-millions.
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