Comments Thread For: Pacquiao Wants $20 Million Guarantee To Fight Crawford, Says Koncz

[rathalos]

haha these fluid apologist cant accept that pac is the man!!!

he was willing to fight the real threats in the sports unlike fluid lmao

PACQUIAO fighter of the decade!!! a REAL FIGHTER!!!

[pasawayako]

haha these fluid apologist cant accept that pac is the man!!!

he was willing to fight the real threats in the sports unlike fluid lmao

PACQUIAO fighter of the decade!!! a REAL FIGHTER!!!

But floyd is the TBE. The Best Evader of all time.
oh and i almost forgot. he's the most PEDS experts of all time.

[Sup]

haha these fluid apologist cant accept that pac is the man!!!

he was willing to fight the real threats in the sports unlike fluid lmao

PACQUIAO fighter of the decade!!! a REAL FIGHTER!!!

I'm like 99.7% sure you are Filipino.

Just an observation.

[PunchyPotorff]

Oh, okay. Whatever you say. Yeah, sure, sounds about right, Pac fights for free. I should've known. SMDH

I didn't say it....VisionQuest said it....the people that audited Manny's accounts.

I've seen a few NSAC reports on their site. That's what I go by.

[PunchyPotorff]

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Originally Posted by PunchyPotorff View Post
Fans can complain all they want, but really there isn't anything wrong with Pac's demands. He's made 20 mil in many of his fights... this is nothing new. And Crawford is the name most fans want Pac in the ring with. And if he only wants April, let him have it. Ask Joe Smith Jr how easy it is to juggle boxing with a full time job.

Manny Pacquiao was more than happy to take $4m guaranteed to fight Jessie Vargas, with Vargas getting just under $3m and no upside on the PPV. Why not have a similar structure for a possible Crawford fight? Crawford gets $4m, Pacquiao gets $4m, and then Pacquiao makes up the rest of his own money on the upside of the event.
hilarious

I guess neither of us are Manny's promoters, so basically we're just stating opinions here. One thing I would add... Crawford is a different fighter entirely from Vargas, and IMO, worth more to fight against. And it's the Pac fight most fans want to see, would likely do well in PPV, better than Vargas.

[PunchyPotorff]

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Originally Posted by PunchyPotorff View Post
Fans can complain all they want, but really there isn't anything wrong with Pac's demands. He's made 20 mil in many of his fights... this is nothing new. And Crawford is the name most fans want Pac in the ring with. And if he only wants April, let him have it. Ask Joe Smith Jr how easy it is to juggle boxing with a full time job.

Yes, he did get 20 million, but that was in fights that were in high dem and with big named fighters...paying him 20 million all but ensures that no one else will make anything. I think it's cashing out money. Manny knows that Crawford is the exact style for him to avoid (though Crawford is venerable at times) so it's likely going to be a loss for him. Manny is not fast enough, and has not shown enough power as of late to make him a favorite in this fight...i give him about a 30% chance at best.

Crawford would probably be the Pac fight that the most fans would want to check out, certainly a bigger PPV draw than Vargas. As for who would win, Gamboa dropped Crawford, and Pac can be dropped, so both are vulnerable. Odds? I'd say closer to 50/50. But I wouldn't really care all that much, since it would be a great fight to watch.

[PunchyPotorff]

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Originally Posted by PunchyPotorff View Post
Fans can complain all they want, but really there isn't anything wrong with Pac's demands. He's made 20 mil in many of his fights... this is nothing new. And Crawford is the name most fans want Pac in the ring with. And if he only wants April, let him have it. Ask Joe Smith Jr how easy it is to juggle boxing with a full time job.

Exactly this. Pacquiao has made 20 million dollar guarantees before so why would he not ask for one in one of the most asked for fights in the sport. On top of all that, it's likely TC only wants the fight at 140 so Pac will be giving into weight demands, as well as an American venue...you know, the home of TC not Pacman. If you're going to concede all that, at least you should have some leeway when it comes to the money. Personally I think the fight is a bust and such a guarantee is impossible.

You could be right on the attendance. We certainly saw that with Kovalev/Ward. But it seems to me that most fans want Pac to fight Crawford. Although that doesn't necessarily translate to a big PPV buy.

[PunchyPotorff]

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Originally Posted by PunchyPotorff View Post
Fans can complain all they want, but really there isn't anything wrong with Pac's demands. He's made 20 mil in many of his fights... this is nothing new. And Crawford is the name most fans want Pac in the ring with. And if he only wants April, let him have it. Ask Joe Smith Jr how easy it is to juggle boxing with a full time job.

oh, so since he made 20 mil in the past he should get it now? So Roy Jones can also request to get paid the same way he did in the past because we're basing it on a precedent set yrs ago? Sorry but it's not 2009 anymore, pac is deliberately pricing himself out.

He could be pricing himself out. Obviously too early to tell. But Pac 2017 is no comparison to RJJ 2017.

[PunchyPotorff]

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Originally Posted by PunchyPotorff View Post
Fans can complain all they want, but really there isn't anything wrong with Pac's demands. He's made 20 mil in many of his fights... this is nothing new. And Crawford is the name most fans want Pac in the ring with. And if he only wants April, let him have it. Ask Joe Smith Jr how easy it is to juggle boxing with a full time job.

More or less this. You can call Manny dumb all day, but he knows how boxing works and I think he's even gotten smarter with how the business of boxing works. So he knows they are trying to buy his name on Crawford's resume as much if not more than they wanna make that fight. Or that's the plan, maybe Manny wins. Although I'm less optimistic on Manny's chances since Crawford owned Postol.

It would probably be Manny's toughest fight, no arguments there.

[Bronx2245]

Is this $20 million only for Crawford, or for whomever he faces? The way this reads, it's like it's only for Crawford, which sounds very suspect!