Comments Thread For: Pacquiao Explains Las Vegas/Macau Event Differences

[Francis M.]

PAC is a very insightful speaker, if you can get over the accent when speaking in English.

[twosweethooks]

Marquez felt the same way until he damn near killed Pacquio in the ring had Pacquiao face down ass up like a ********** in front of his family.

Mang !! you sure are hard on Pac, I ,,,,I thou,,,,,I thought you loved the Pacman !

Memo juice shore is powerful stuff, whewwwwwww !!!!!

But

I can see you don't mind it !"peeleft:

[Real Talk85]

Yep Pac said it , he's not illiterate like some, he speaks his language as well and others can translate, its not hard you just have to realize that languages can be translated but many just don't know that

Manny doesn't sound anywhere near that intelligible in any language.

He has trouble articulating himself in both English and his native language and his interviews are kept very simple as a result.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcUICq_zw1c

[Deevel916]

Marketing Manny in Macau was a very smart businerss move by Arum. It's basically a "no-brainer." Pacquiao vs. Rios and Algeri would not do as well in Vegas as it would in China.

Dont you know? Its only "smart business" when it pertains to Floyd.

[Deevel916]

Lies lies lies lol smh Arum and Pacquiao got you all brainwashed

If I'm not mistaken, Pacquiao only pays around 13% in taxes when fighting in Macau rather than almost 40% here in the states.

[IMDAZED]

Yeah, we ship our fights to some back corner of the world because the money is so much better! Shhh, don't tell anyone!

[The Gambler1981]

If you notice the post wasn't in Quotes, it was no doubt translated, not a perfect word for word and yes substance is lost in translation but we got a good understanding of what Pac was saying.

It still reads like something a Chinese person would say and not Manny Pacquiao. I keep up on China so I read lots of their English stuff and it reads exactly like this.

[Deevel916]

Yeah, we ship our fights to some back corner of the world because the money is so much better! Shhh, don't tell anyone!

Its simple math.

U.S tax rate for those making more than $400k/yr - 39.6%

China's tax maximum tax rate for individuals. - 15%.


Pac is guaranteed $20mil per fight.

[Green Hornet]

Arum already gave up on hitting big PPV numbers had the match been held in Vegas. Vegas has high overhead and taxes. Macau is the best location for Pacquiao as Arum can still pay him superstar paycheck; though PPV numbers will be lame. This is a great win-win for Arum and Pacquiao financially. Popularity-wise, it will not help Pacquiao in the US.

Fighting FMJ will be different as the US PPV numbers will just wipe out the tax advantage of Macau.

[soul_survivor]

Manny really said all that?

probably not lol it looks like PR talk to me

But I understand fully why Macau is being tapped by ARum, it makes sense, Manny can still come over to the US and fight a familiar American name and get 700-800k PPV buys but the money isn't the same because of taxes, yet in Macau he gets paid more...less taxes lol Win win for him and his promoter.

Plus, from a boxing fan point of view, it opens up new markets for the sport i love so can't complain. Wish more major championship fights took place outside of las Vegas which is becoming stale