Comments Thread For: Arum: You Can't Compare Big Events From Different Eras

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LOS ANGELES - Next week's fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao is expected to be the most lucrative ever in boxing but that does not necessarily make it the biggest of all time, veteran promoter Bob Arum told AFP.

The heavily anticipated megabout in Las Vegas on May 2 is projected to become the sport's top-grossing showdown, pulling in close to $500 million (329.46 million pounds) in pay-per-view, but Arum says it is impossible to rank contests from different eras.

"It's different," the 83-year-old Hall of Fame member told Reuters in a recent interview while his boxer, Filipino southpaw Pacquiao, was preparing for yet another sparring session at the Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood, California.
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BoB: "... Oh, but the money's better. That's fo damn sure."

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Not many will Post here because they don't get it.

When you were 10 or so years old and the BIG FIGHT was on the radio then you were Glued to it. You didn't get the news from anywhere else but maybe the papers or Gillette Friday nite fights.

BIG BIG fights took place like ARUM SAID, the fight itself proved worthy to be great or not, and they are too numerous to mention.

May and Pac KNOW this is for all the marbles, its left up to them to make this a great event or a flop.

IF JR will come out trying to KO PAC and PAC the same it will be a great fight to end all the talk about who is the BEST.

IF JR is content to stand back and pot shot and Pac is hesitant to attack, it will be the biggest flop of ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL TIME !!!!!!!!!

Jr will have his legs, if he needs to get out of dodge cause Pac is bringing too much heat he will leave the scene and Pac will be chasing running all nite long and may run into a check hook. IN MY OPINION if that is the way JR wants to GO OUT, FINISH HIS LEGACY, then it won't be long he will be always remember that he had the tools but too scared to use them. He will NOT BE HONORED as The Best Ever, but only by biased fools.

They both need to bring the heat and whoever wins can claim they were the best ever in their generation at 147.

Pac's legacy is secure without this fight. NO ONE has done what he has done.

Jr has ducked the prime elites too long and fought those will problems so all these years his competition had something lacking and he NEVER WHETTED his SWORD against the BEST of the BEST,

SO

We just don't really really KNOW what he has ,,,,,,,,,,DO WE ??????????!!!!!!

I hope JR is NOT lying again, when he says he wants to KO PAC, he has said that about every fight but ends up holding back.

This great event may not be the biggest, its the biggest money but it like Arum said is not comparable, its not happened but after we will know.

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A lot of the kids on this forum should listen to what Bob's saying here and learn something.