Comments Thread For: Mayweather-Pacquiao: UAE Group Up Offer To Floyd

[SergioMartinez]

Before someone gets burned, I'd say lets just do this the traditional way, promoters, networks, sponsors.

At MGM Grand or maybe Dallas Cowboys Texas. Just saying that all of this sounds too good to be true, which it probably is.

[Grimmer]

Dont under estimate the wallets of these oil rich mutherfrackers. They won a world cup bid without a single stadium that seated more than 10,000 people in the whole country of Qatar.

They are building state of the art 70k seaters with full outdoor air conditioning in towns that have a population of 13,000 people for 3-4 games then shipping the whole thing to Africa for free.

These guys could poo out Floyds entire careers earnings and not think twice about it.

Not to mention the way they changed the Premier League forever when they bought Manchester City and spent 100s of millions of pounds creating one of the best football squads in Europe.

$120million is barely a drop in the ocean compared to how much they've invested in City.

[12TRIBEsRiSe]

Hopefully this "UAE Group" has a plan for Bob. He's been pretty verbal about not wanting to make this fight and prioritizing the Alvarez Cotto fight over Pac's very own demands of being ready to fight Floyd.

lol its like everyone is just ignoring this point

[joesaiditstrue]

Major companies don't want to sponsor someone with Mayweathers image. Anyone that draws big revenue in boxing isn't forced to fight anyone. Look at Pacquiao cherry picking mismatches that really are embarrassing for a fighter of his magnitude.

do you really think Floyd couldn't get an endorsement? lol

[joesaiditstrue]

Who wants the fight to happen in uae

Lol

If the fight isn't finalised in January, the fight will never happen...but I think it will happen....at MGM grand with no uae group involved

sup jas

this fight aint happening ever mang

[NOI]

These guys always make these huge offers but no one ever fights for them. Why do I get the feeling the only way "UAE Group" will release the $200 Million dollar site fees is if Floyd and Manny Moneygram $350 to Nigeria to help them get released from a refugee camp?

I feel the same way.

[bigjavi973]

[QballLobo]

do you really think Floyd couldn't get an endorsement? lol

Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson got dropped from sponsers just with allegations of abuse. Floyd has pleaded guilty and done time for his indiscretions.
When he did and At&t spot a few years back the company came out and said they were not endorsing Floyd but rather a boxing event he just happened to be a part of.
The President invited Pacquiao to the White House during a campaign year, pretended to not even know who Mayweather was in an interview.
No I don't think Floyd would be able to get any major endorsement, he is too toxic and has a propensity to break laws and and have to defend his support of Ray Rice in a major cable interview with Rachel Nicols just days before his last fight. No major company is willing to take that risk. I work in PR, I know that game well.
That's why he resorts to making his own TMT shirts that look like they were printed up at a local mall on a Hanes T.

[tank17211]

The investment group from Abu Dhabi of the United Arab Emirates has confirmed it’s upped its already record-setting offer to Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Mayweather Promotions to fight Manny Pacquiao during the first half of 2015 to an unprecedented $120 million.

“The media has been speculating the offer has gone up $10 million to a guaranteed $120 million, and they’re right,” said M. Akbar Muhammad [who previously worked with Don King], a long-time boxing executive and one of the principals in the Abu Dhabi-based group, which plans to host the event there during the first half of 2015.
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Anyone else get the feeling Floyd just doesnt really want to fight Pacquiao for whatever reason.

[bigjavi973]