Comments Thread For: Mayweather: Pacquiao Had No Choice, He Needs Money

[Spacey1991]

Pacquiao still hasn't had his day in court. Most of that 75 million is in late penalties and other fees. He will likely end up paying much less due to the fact he only originally owed 18 million to the u.s. Either way pacquiao is one of the richest athletes in history. He has made nearly as much as mayweather, and would easily be able to pay it whether its 18 million or 75 million. Manny was making over 20 million a fight regardless. He didn't need to fight Floyd. Floyd needed to fight Manny to prove to the world hes not a coward. He just couldn't deal with the public pressure anymore. I mean think about it, pacquiao made a damn foot locker commercial and #fight pacquiao was trending on twitter. How would it have looked if Floyd backed out again. He was still scared all those years, and realistically Floyd was the one forced into fighting pacquiao, not the other way around

I don't know anything about his finances or his taxes (nor do I really care, it doesn't effect us) but I highly doubt if it came down to it Manny could "easily" afford to part $75 million.

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Mayweather kills Pacman again.

[junior gong]

Is floyd capable of even uttering three words without sounding like a complete moron?

[jjsmyth87]

I don't know anything about his finances or his taxes (nor do I really care, it doesn't effect us) but I highly doubt if it came down to it Manny could "easily" afford to part $75 million.

Well I do know he owns 5 multimillion dollar mansions, which he just sold one. He also just donated 8 million dollars after the algieri fight to build a church. I highly doubt he would be doing that if he was truly worried about his tax bill. Plus hes made probably 100"million since he originally got hit with that tax bill. Hes had alot of endorsements lately. He also owns a lot of businesses in the phillipines, so yeah Im sure 75 million would definitely hurt him having to pay, but he could easily afford it. Hes still got a few good years of boxing left. He makes around 60 mill a year. Hes not going to be in the poor house if he did have to pay 75 million. He will still be a rich dude.

[Skip Bayless]

same could probably be said about floyd. they both had no choice, they needed each other

[Daddy T]

haha here we go!

[The Big Dunn]

I don't know if floyd is right but it's hard to figure out why manny walked away from 50% ppv split and the 24 and 14 day cutoffs only to end up accepting 40% ppv split and no cutoff.

[jjsmyth87]

I can't believe i have seen a couple bone heads these last couple days saying "thank you Floyd mayweather". Your thanking him for not running scared from 120 million dollars? Hes called himself TBE for years and still hadnt faced pacquiao. How can you not fight the best in your division and call yourself the best ever?. Floyd has faced top ten guys yes,but still never faced pacquiao, who was pound for pound champion for alot longer than mayweather. He shouldn't be thanked for doing what the world has been dying to see the last 6 years, he should be criticized for ducking, and booed by the masses may 2nd. I truly believe if Floyd wouldn't have been booed and harrassed on social media, he would be fighting cotto right now.

[Elroy1]

I don't know if floyd is right but it's hard to figure out why manny walked away from 50% ppv split and the 24 and 14 day cutoffs only to end up accepting 40% ppv split and no cutoff.

Because obviously there was a little bit more to the story than your narrow focussed publicity stunt is trying to sell.

I'm in the bridge business. Wanna buy one?

You should be more focussed now on how you guys are going to get your boy Floyd out of this one looking good

[jjsmyth87]

I don't know if floyd is right but it's hard to figure out why manny walked away from 50% ppv split and the 24 and 14 day cutoffs only to end up accepting 40% ppv split and no cutoff.

Floyd originally wanted a 14 day cutoff, and then moved the date around. He was playing games like he always does. He accused pacquiao of making a career out of calling mayweather a chicken. Then he says things like "Manny pacquiao your next" and then a couple days later changes his tune and says he never said that. Seems like mayweather has been dangling the pacquiao carrot over everyone's head all these years. He said right before the Chris algiero fight he would fire his trainer Floyd Sr. If he mentioned that he should fight pacquiao again. He went on to say he would rather fight 2 bums. The drug testing hasn't been an issue for years. Floyd has been the one running scared, and proved it with that bogus 40 million dollar offer with no ppv split. Now pacquiao has lost twice and hes getting double that? Sounds like mayweather never made a serious offer in the first place, that is so easy to see, yet you mayweather knucklheads are too dumb to see through his b.s., and believe everything he says like its gospel.