Comments Thread For: Pacquiao, Top Rank Extend Contract To December 2016

[Pacquiao'd]

Well, Pac wants the fight and Floyd doesn´t. The Arum excuse is just ridiculous, if you want to fight just shut up and fight.


And Pac is a great boxer, but he is not the smartest person in the world. He should have left Arum many years ago.

Not according to roach and Ariza but keep trying

[AntonTheMeh]

ima state the obvious, mayweather vs pacquiao will never happen.

[HanzGruber]

thats like 5 more fights??? pac wtff man you got maybe 2 left.... **** my worst nightmare is pac becoming a roy jones, fighting way past his expiration date

I've been sayin for a hole now bob is gonna turn him into the next toney

[Beercules]

I think Freddie Roach knows what time it is. This statement was made after Bradley II:

***8220;Manny Pacquiao ***8211; he***8217;s not a great puncher at 147 like everyone thinks,***8221; Roach said to maxboxing. ***8220;Everyone says he***8217;s not getting the knockouts like with Hatton and those knockouts were at 135 and 140. I***8217;m going to ask him if we can fight at 140 because that***8217;s a better weight for him. He has no trouble making 140***8230;he***8217;s fighting these bigger, stronger guys. Bradley was at least 160 going into that ring.***8221;

Read more at http://www.************.com/2014/04/...LChEyqcdoKo.99

Roach don't want Manny fighting those fighters @ 147 with GBP.

No no, Manny did it for his family doe

[lutenco]

really, Come on Bob and Oscar, work together to get this guy good fights.

yes,exactly my thoughts;ARUM + OSCAR will give us some new fights of MANNY!!!

[IMDAZED]

NSB: Where the year 2009 was immediately followed by 2013.

[RR_1988]

Pac vs Marquez 5,6,7. Pac vs Bradley 3,4,5 coming soon

[Divine Hammer]

but fights still can be made with golden boy considering arum and oscar have decided to end the cold war. the only person in the way is schaefer.

[ThePrince]

Iole's article, Arum just threw Khan's chinny chin chin in the hat for Macau this fall:

Manny Pacquiao agrees to extension with Top Rank through 2016

Manny Pacquiao signed a contract extension with Top Rank on Tuesday that will likely keep him with the promotional company of the remainder of his illustrious career.

The deal that Pacquiao signed will take him through Dec. 31, 2016, when he will be 38 years old. Top Rank CEO Bob Arum told Yahoo Sports that the contract will continue "as usual," meaning two fights a year, including one in the spring and one in the fall.

Pacquiao plans next to fight in November in Macau, China. Juan Manuel Marquez, coming off of a big win over Mike Alvarado on Saturday, will be offered the fight. If he declines, Top Rank plans to pursue Ruslan Provodnikov.

"These guys are like family to me," Arum said. "We had discussed this for a while and I was always sure it would get done. Now that it's been signed and is formally signed, it puts a wrap on it and it feels good to know we'll be together for another two years."

Arum said he remained open to making a fight with pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather and said the contract with Pacquiao does not preclude it. He said if the fight occurs before the end of 2015, it could be on both Showtime and HBO, as was the 2002 pay-per-view match between Mike Tyson, who was then exclusively with Showtime, and Lennox Lewis, who was exclusively with HBO.

Mayweather is under contract with Showtime and has three more fights remaining on the six-fight deal he signed with the company in 2013.

"I'm not going to worry about something I can't bring to bear," Arum said of a potential Pacquiao-Mayweather fight. "We want to fight him and we're willing to discuss it at any point. There are two ways to go here. One is to do a Mayweather fight with both HBO and Showtime involved, as they did with Lewis-Tyson, as I understand Mayweather is under contract to Showtime through 2015. The companies could come together and put on the show.

"Or, the other alternative is, if Floyd wanted to fight Manny in 2016, he could return to HBO and we could do it there."

A difficulty making the fight obviously is the relationship between Arum and Mayweather and Arum and Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer, who has repeatedly said he will no longer do business with Arum. Mayweather has worked with Golden Boy exclusivley since 2007, but said he is loyal to Schaefer and not the company.

There is a rift between Schaefer and Golden Boy president Oscar De La Hoya, which could result in two separate companies. Arum recently mended fences with De La Hoya.

"I could work very easily with Oscar and we could put on fights together with guys who are under contract to him and Golden Boy," Arum said. "I never said I wouldn't deal with Schaefer; he said he wouldn't work with me. But that's one guy. One. I can work with Oscar no problem."

As an example, Arum said that if it turns out that Amir Khan winds up under contract to Golden Boy run by De La Hoya, Khan could be a possibility for a Pacquiao opponent as soon as this year.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/manny-p...173625144.html

[Stark777]

Not according to roach and Ariza but keep trying

They are talking about the past and I am talking about the present, keep trying




Uhhh Red bar, troll detected.