Comments Thread For: Arum: Manny Pacquiao Wants To Fight Again, Not Sure He Can Yet

[WesternChamp]

Pacquiao's wife has been wanting him to retire for some time now, going back to 2012, and most definitely after the Marquez KO!!! I know guys who retire very nicely in the Philippines on 50K a year. Money should not be a problem for Pacquiao...EVER!

http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id...wife-to-retire

Jinkee Pacquiao told USA Today Sports this week that she was frightened when her husband was sent face-first into the canvas by one punch from rival Juan Manuel Marquez in the sixth round of their bout Dec. 8 in Las Vegas. Manny Pacquiao was given a CT scan, the results of which were negative.

"It's the first time I've seen him like that, lying on the canvas, and I was scared,'' she told USA Today Sports. She said she began screaming and crying, and was comforted by promoter Bob Arum.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2631928-bob-arum-comments-on-manny-pacquiaos-retirement-decision

"He's torn," Arum said, per Wallace Matthews of ESPN.com. "His wife wants him to retire. He's running for office, and if he wins, which he will, there will be tremendous responsibilities that go with it. However, a big payday is something he might require in the near future."

he just answered your question. if pac is still getting $20+ mil a fight, why would he stop fighting?

remember what you said about canelo? --

if he's still selling out arena and his ppv is high, whats the rush to fight triple g for? so ---

if pac is getting $20+ mil a fight, why is he gonna stay retired for?

money should never be a problem, but when you're making $20+ mil a fight, money is never enough.

[Bronx2245]

he just answered your question. if pac is still getting $20+ mil a fight, why would he stop fighting?

remember what you said about canelo? --

if he's still selling out arena and his ppv is high, whats the rush to fight triple g for? so ---

if pac is getting $20+ mil a fight, why is he gonna stay retired for?

money should never be a problem, but when you're making $20+ mil a fight, money is never enough.

How about when your family asks you to retire?

"Marquez was the first person in the world to understand the night was over. No matter how much anyone had paid to watch in the sellout crowd at the MGM Grand or the millions around the world watching on pay-per-view, they had to wait. We'd seen the punch; he'd thrown it. As the referee rushed over to the fallen man, time stood still, postcard-like, while Marquez gazed down at Pacquiao like an anxious, nervous kid staring at Christmas presents under a tree.

One of the oldest sayings in boxing, the first warning every aspiring fighter hears long before they've ever entered a ring, is that the most dangerous punch, the one to fear most, is the one you never see coming. While the cliché is certainly true at the start of a career, it rarely holds up toward the end. This is because almost none of the great fighters in history ever stopped after that punch — and the history of the sport suggests that few can ever escape it. Pacquiao, despite earning a reported $174 million since 2009 from boxing and endorsements deals, is no different.

Why? Because, of course, boxing's not so well kept dirty secret is that, financially, most fighters can never stop. No matter how outlandish a fortune they've earned inside the ring and out, most greats not only never get ahead, few can even manage getting out from under. They never put much distance between themselves and where they came from. With few exceptions, they all end up desperately needing one more payday. And then another. And then another. Most are forced to hang around so long their endings are consummated by the uglier, more sinister punch that they all saw coming a mile away. Joe Louis, at 37 years old, was never blindsided by the physical punches that Rocky Marciano landed to knock him helplessly out of the ring and the sport. No, the punch he never saw coming and what set him up for Marciano's right hand was debt — in his case, to the government."

http://www.sbnation.com/longform/2013/11/20/5119180/manny-pacquiao-vs-brandon-rios-fight-2013-profile

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If they work as little as US senators do, he'll have time.