Comments Thread For: Arum Feels He Can Make Pacquiao-Marquez 5 in Macau

[wardnine]

I think a good compromise here to make Pac/Marquez 5 would be to 1) guarantee Marquez double what he made in Pac/Marquez 4 (in that fight Pac made around $25 million while Marquez made around $5 million; guaranteeing Marquez $10 million seems fair after his performance in the last fight) and 2) have the fight in LA if Marquez doesn't want to fight in Vegas. Pac has a home and trains in LA but Marquez is also very familiar with LA from his early days in boxing and crowd would be guaranteed to be strongly pro-Marquez crowd so seems LA location would be a reasonable compromise...

[big_james10]

Maybe he should make uncompetitive fights against c level Guys like Chino or gur

I don't know who Chino is, but Gurrerro and Maidana were only C-level fighters for Mayweather. For Pacquaio, they would be A-level opponents capable of beating him.

Second, Arum already make an uncompetitive fight between Pacquaio and Rios and if Marquez turns down a fifth fight, Arum will make another uncompetitive fight between Pacquaio and Alvarado, followed by a third uncompetitive fight with Pacquaio/Rios II.

[big_james10]

Great then maybe we can get juan-manny 6 in early 2015 and juan-manny 7 by fall!!!

Don't joke. It will probably happen if Pac wins the fifth fight because Arum has no other fight he can make that will generate significant amount of money.

[JaguaresMx]

PAC never clearly beat JMM at their primes.

At one point does a victory over a boxer in his 40s, career featherweight and lightweight cease to mean anything?

Other than to pac t a r d s what's the point again?

Until Pac finally kos JMM? After 5 fights it won't mean much.

[SaldanaCC]

Bob wants this fight soooooooo bad its funny!!!!!!!!
Jmm dont want it neither does pac not cuz there scared or anything its just that ship sailed an it happen to be jmm who got the final blow in period!!!!!!!
yall saw what the ppv numbers did last time over there why dont pac make a real fight against a real champion coming up like floyd does floyd fights the young CHAMPIONS not guys comin off losses up from 140 or guys he already beat befor go against porter......thurman......hell move up to 154 try canelo like floyd did.........u want ur ppv up ur cred up again pac u cant be choosein the same ol fights while floyd beating the top guys at 2 differant weight classes an u fighting jmm AGAIN!!!!!!!

[turnedup]

Well Macau has way deeper pockets than vegas so anything is possible, thought the money to tempt Floyd to step out of vegas may come out of macau or Dubai but it never did. Tho this poses an interesting situation ppv wise, technically anyone here could set up VPN and assume a chinese i.p. address and pay ten bucks.

[shadow-boxer]

why is nobody talking about pac fighting in macau next?

he did 475k vs rios in ppv buys, yet the total revenue of the fight was more than the 800k it did vs bradley 2

bradley 2 would have done around 60m in total revenue, yet its clear the rios fight made more

I wonder how big the site fees were to fight in macau, it clearly must be a huge huge figure that not only catches up with 800k ppv buys but takes over it

Unfortunately, your math is skewed. Try again. Regarding the tax to be paid by Pac, it may be tax free in Macau but he will be definitely paying tax in the Phil. By the way, FYI, Pac and/or Bob has still to present to BIR any evidence that Bob paid the correct/right tax to IRS, 5 months after they said they will get tax receipts from IRS.

[sdcluser]

Why not make it in Manila or Mexico City?

[A-Wolf]

Regardless. Arum will never see another PPV dollar from me again. Full boycott until he's out of the industry once and for all. I've had it with this prick.

[HanzGruber]

Yea like Juan's gonna go to an all PAC crowd after just beating him. Forget this damn fight