Comments Thread For: Arum: Pacquiao Wants Purse for Crawford to be Worth the Risk

[richardt]

??? How does Crawford fight Crawford??

It means Pac will be fighting Indongo, not Crawford. Classic Arum bait and switch.

[richardt]

he is talking about making crawford and indongo and then if crawford wins, it'll be crawford and manny after.

No, it means Pac will be fighting Indongo, not Crawford. Classic Arum bait and switch. He throws out the third name so he can rearrange the equation and make an entirely different fight altogether.

[GhostofDempsey]

Nothing wrong with wanting the most **** for his buck. It's not as though Mayweather would ever fight Crawford, not at any weight and not at any time during his career would he have faced a Crawford, and not for any amount of money.

[WesternChamp]

No, it means Pac will be fighting Indongo, not Crawford. Classic Arum bait and switch. He throws out the third name so he can rearrange the equation and make an entirely different fight altogether.

at this point, i dont think bob has any more tricks. it's gonna be crawford. it's time anyways, manny is on his way out so now is the perfect time to make the fight.

[richardt]

at this point, i dont think bob has any more tricks. it's gonna be crawford. it's time anyways, manny is on his way out so now is the perfect time to make the fight.

That will have to be proven for me to believe since we are talking Arum here.

[North Star]

With Crawford pulling in decent numbers Saturday night, this should make Bob a bit more eager to make this fight happen. Got to strike while the iron is hot.

[MrRolltide91]

Cash out....

[Mike D]

Under Manny Pac. WIKI it's listed as PPV.

I think whomever edited that in his wiki page just assumed it, but in that video Bob says pretty explicitly that it's not going to be PPV...

haymon could use pac as the main event to atract audience for his undercard fights, both sides could get benefited from this, but if it doesnt work like you said then showtime has more chances...

But don't Al & Bob pretty much hate each other? A Pacquiao PBC venture would require them working together for a joint promotion...

And I guess Showtime is a possibility -- but when he says biggest possible (keyword "possible", which I think rules out PBC) platform, then that leads me to believe that it's HBO, because HBO is still the ratings leader for boxing when it comes to the premium cable networks

[thack]

Pac is done and will only continue from Algieri and Horn with easy paydays It wouldn't surprise me if he carries this trend on with glass jaw Khan who is still trying to cash in with his terrible chin and inactivity.

If manny were to step up to the plate with Bud we all know there's only one winner and Manny would be struggling to get much interest after so don't hold your breath for that one.

[Xi_]

Nothing wrong with wanting the most **** for his buck. It's not as though Mayweather would ever fight Crawford, not at any weight and not at any time during his career would he have faced a Crawford, and not for any amount of money.

Pacquiao wont fight him....he'll price himself out. He has never legitimately beat an A level fighter in their prime.