Comments Thread For: Temporary Restraining Order Issued In Pacquiao Tax Case

[RawDawgHasSpokn]

Has PAC even made $75m? The taxes they claim he owes doesn't make sense to his career earnings.

He made more in endorsements.....

[jas]

michael konsz needs to be fired!

[RlCKY]

"Manny gotta get his tax situation in order before he can fight Floyd Mayweather"

They just gave him his next excuse for the fight not to happen. He got Marquez problems and Uncle Sam problems.

[Xi_]

even with endorsements the guy hasn't even sniffed that much money, wtf is the Filipino gov't try to do and why are they taxing him so much??? oh well lol, pacquiao is a ****** person in general and he has no one to blame but himself because he surrounded himself with incompetent people like kconz.....plus he resigned to a guy like arum.

[billeau2]

This whole situation is insidious. The mere fact that a state, i.e. quasi-state (depending on what you believe) can demand such sums of money from any private individual is troubling. It is arrogant to say the least.

Why do people make assumptions about Manny? Frankly? I would not be suprised if he had paid... Anyone who would demand the kind of money being asked for has some criminal aspects. The IRS shakedown here is almost unprecedented.

[The Big Dunn]

Manny did take cash illegally from ODH so its possible he has been getting cash/checks from Arum and the companies he endorses in an attempt to circumvent tax rules. I hope this isn't the case.

If manny did anything illegal he deserves to be punished to the full extent of the law. He also needs to ask Koncz exactly how something like this could happen.

[shadow-boxer]

Pac already showed them the documents saying he paid those takes to the U.S.

The U.S. and the Philippines have a treaty that says you don't gotta pay taxes for both countries

This is dirty politics but ain't nothing new if you know about history

This idiot here. He showed nothing up to this date despite Arum's promise last Dec, 2013 that they will provide proof within 3 months that Pac paid his taxes to IRS.

Anybody with knowledge of taxation knew that. Don't bother pretending to be intelligent.

He is also a dirty politician, with his massive vote buying and lies. Hate to say it but he lacks the intelligence to know that he is being used by people who could not win an election to become congressman through him.

[Bronx2245]

Manny did take cash illegally from ODH so its possible he has been getting cash/checks from Arum and the companies he endorses in an attempt to circumvent tax rules. I hope this isn't the case.

If manny did anything illegal he deserves to be punished to the full extent of the law. He also needs to ask Koncz exactly how something like this could happen.

Check out this article:

"Joe Louis, at 37 years old, was never blindsided by the physical punches that Rocky Marciano landed to knock him helplessly out of the ring and the sport. No, the punch he never saw coming and what set him up for Marciano's right hand was debt — in his case, to the government. Louis owed the IRS $500,000 and had nowhere else to go and get it but back into the ring.

Nearly all the greats were forced to stick around for those last final beatings, the ones that did lasting damage to their souls as much as their brains. If "protect yourself at all times" is boxing's most vital rule to obey, surely the most devastating blow in the sport is the one you do see coming, the one you're simply helpless to escape its impact.

Why is it so many of boxing's greatest heroes — Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson — were forced to stare down this last tragic fate and await their inevitable descent into boxing's latest cautionary tale? In the so-called "red light district of sports," the only jungle where, as Don King's biographer Jack Newfield once pointed out, "the lions are afraid of the ****," why can so few great fighters walk away undamaged with any money in their pocket? Will Pacquiao be any different?"

http://www.sbnation.com/longform/2013/11/20/5119180/manny-pacquiao-vs-brandon-rios-fight-2013-profile

[The Big Dunn]

Check out this article:

"Joe Louis, at 37 years old, was never blindsided by the physical punches that Rocky Marciano landed to knock him helplessly out of the ring and the sport. No, the punch he never saw coming and what set him up for Marciano's right hand was debt — in his case, to the government. Louis owed the IRS $500,000 and had nowhere else to go and get it but back into the ring.

Nearly all the greats were forced to stick around for those last final beatings, the ones that did lasting damage to their souls as much as their brains. If "protect yourself at all times" is boxing's most vital rule to obey, surely the most devastating blow in the sport is the one you do see coming, the one you're simply helpless to escape its impact.

Why is it so many of boxing's greatest heroes — Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson — were forced to stare down this last tragic fate and await their inevitable descent into boxing's latest cautionary tale? In the so-called "red light district of sports," the only jungle where, as Don King's biographer Jack Newfield once pointed out, "the lions are afraid of the ****," why can so few great fighters walk away undamaged with any money in their pocket? Will Pacquiao be any different?"

http://www.sbnation.com/longform/201...t-2013-profile

yeah man, I read this a while ago. Good article. This is why I support fighters getting higher purses and feel Al haymon, for all his negatives, is a positive in the sport for making sure his fighters earn more.

Unfortunately, Floyd (having dropped out of school in like 10th grade) couldn't properly articulate the themes in this article on camera. instead he ranted about rich coward etc etc.

Imagine the response to Floyd (also Iverson and his practice interview) if he were better able to communicate this a "non keeping it real way" if you can understand my point.

[mrjax]

75 Million? Damn, those steroids musta been expensive.