What Stopped pacquiao From Being A Great Self-Promoter

[GrandpaBernard]

iirc he used to hustle donuts and cigs on the streets.

manny started sales at a much younger age than Ali and Floyd yet doesn't have a fraction of their self-promotion abilities

[Left Hook Tua]

self promotion doesn't always work out.

roy jones wasted his prime that way.

arum or king would have made him tons more.

[MRBOOMER]

Lack of business sense and education. He prbly never thought he'd make it this far in life give him a 30 million pay check to him means he's made it. Why make it more difficult on him self he'd rather let God take the wheel.

[SplitSecond]

I think Pacquiao was just happy to be out of the streets earning enough to make a living.

[Cinci Champ]

well playing the good guy character can only get you so far. you could see ggg in his promotion leading up to lemieux that hes slowly trying to be more ****y cause he knows haters are even better then fans in a lot of ways. Manny tho was always to worried about being the good guy even when we found out later that he was anything but the good guy for a lot of his career. Imo thats why also u got to remember his whole thing was chasing the hated mayweather when you really think about it manny did pretty dam good i mean were talking about guy who was getting 1 million buys so honestly its hard to question how he was promoted cause without mayweather manny probably dont do anything near what he was doing

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

He No SPeaky English

[GrandpaBernard]

He No SPeaky English

Neither did Mayorga

yet he was one of the most socially relaxed and charismatic mofos

[deathofaclown]

Imo thats why also u got to remember his whole thing was chasing the hated mayweather when you really think about it manny did pretty dam good i mean were talking about guy who was getting 1 million buys so honestly its hard to question how he was promoted cause without mayweather manny probably dont do anything near what he was doing

There's some truth in this. For the past 5-6 years, he was promoted as Mayweather's rival and HBO also had a huge hand in his promotion, they even said as much after the GGG fight at the weekend about how they helped promote Manny and now doing the same with GGG.

With Mayweather having his "money" persona, they have to give Manny a counter persona which is the opposite i.e "humble" and religious. Anybody seen the video where the HBO guy goes and tells Manny to pray in the corner after a victory while he's celebrating it so he can film it? it's all part of the show and the production. That's not saying anything bad about Pacquiao, it's all part of the business and that's his selling point. We all know about him impregnating hookers and he has plenty of expensive mansions and expensive cars himself but it's not in their best business interests to show it, it would skew the public perception. I'm not saying he isn't religious, and he probably does a lot of good things but he's clearly not the clean-cut humble guy that is portrayed. In his way, he self promoted himself just as good as anybody. You don't need to be a loud mouth and braggadocio to be a self-promoter, you just market yourself to those who dislike the loudmouth by playing the role of the opposite but in reality it's the same game.

Take GGG for example, his whole selling point is his kind of unassuming guy with his charming broken english and smile who can knock out a horse. It makes for a great character in a story so that's what they will push as his media persona. Is that the real Golovkin? i doubt it, not completely anyway.

In business, any company finds the best way to market their product in order to generate money and boxing is no different. Most of is a masquerade.

[Left Hook Tua]

well playing the good guy character can only get you so far. you could see ggg in his promotion leading up to lemieux that hes slowly trying to be more ****y cause he knows haters are even better then fans in a lot of ways. Manny tho was always to worried about being the good guy even when we found out later that he was anything but the good guy for a lot of his career. Imo thats why also u got to remember his whole thing was chasing the hated mayweather when you really think about it manny did pretty dam good i mean were talking about guy who was getting 1 million buys so honestly its hard to question how he was promoted cause without mayweather manny probably dont do anything near what he was doing

pac had a ppv before mayweather did.

2 of pac's top 3 ppv (aside from may 2) was BEFORE pac-floyd talks.

delahoya and cotto.

the 3rd had nothing to do with floyd as well. jmm 3. that rivalry started before floyd-pac talks.

not everything has to do with floyd, dumb flo mo.

[therealpugilist]

" Tok To Muh Pamother..... Brob Adrum."


Bob wasn't gonna let another cash cow go and plus Manny isn't the sharpest business man