Comments Thread For: Arum: HBO Abandoned Pacquiao After Sucking Him Dry For 10 Years!

[Can'tHoldMeBack]

Crawford isn't a ranked welterweight and his resume isn't impressive at all though... but I agree it would've been a more competitive fight. HBO had the Rios and Algieri fights distributed by them though. Vargas at least has a title and is better than Rios. Don't get me wrong... Manny is gonna crush Vargas and it's a **** fight for ppv. I think Manny deserves a light touch fight like this coming back after retiring from the Bradley win until his schedule is better suited to fight a better opponent. He has given HBO a lot of good #'s throughout the years.

Why do y'all keep saying manny retired when he just fought in April and returning around his regular time he usually do his second fight of year?

[bigdunny1]

This ppv is going to flop regardless who top rank suckers into distributing it. My guess is top rank produces it themselves. But arum has spent all year fighting with hbo and I think they are getting sick of him and that's why other younger fighters who don't have a loud mouth promoter are getting the prime dates on hbo instead of top rank fighters. And haymon owns showtime so he has nowhere else to go. He needs hbo more then they need him. Arum should of gave a better fight or moved the ppv date so it don't conflict with ppvs hbo already had. Instead he acting like stubborn child.

[puga]

spoken like a true hypocrite

[puga]

pacquiao should just headline the newest pinoy pride event

[My Low Place]

Crawford isn't a ranked welterweight and his resume isn't impressive at all though... but I agree it would've been a more competitive fight. HBO had the Rios and Algieri fights distributed by them though. Vargas at least has a title and is better than Rios. Don't get me wrong... Manny is gonna crush Vargas and it's a **** fight for ppv. I think Manny deserves a light touch fight like this coming back after retiring from the Bradley win until his schedule is better suited to fight a better opponent. He has given HBO a lot of good #'s throughout the years.

crawford has took to a level fighters 0's, traveled with win a belt, and 140...also would have unified 135 if the belts would have been secureed down there, but they were not at the time he was champ.

he's not even reached 30 yet...

[Jubei]

A ton of dumb people in this thread.

The choice of Pacquiaos opponent has nothing to do with putting up the PPV or not, they simply can't do 2 PPVs back to back in November.

[richardt]

If Arum and Pac had got their sht together and made a decision and reserved November before other PPV's took that month, they would have had everything locked in. Early bird gets the worm!

[dc3383]

Arum is funny acting like this was a shock and it's not what he wanted. Last week he said HBO wouldn't be involved.

[bambam182]

arum, shut the hell up. you are doing the same but longer which is worse.

[Emi66]

Crawford vs Pax would do better than Vargas. Lets not overrate the Mexican fans. They dont give a **** about Vargas whos about to be a punching bag. Lots of hardcores would have bough Crawford vs Pac.. Hardcores arent even buying this garbage

Vargas is going to be heavily promoted to the Mexican audience and they always jump to watch a Mexican fighter challenge a big name.