Comments Thread For: Roach: Not Sure If Pacquiao is Mad at Me - I Haven't Been Paid

[bigjavi973]

finally pac is getting mad at being screwed over....

wasnt that his last fight with top rank?

[Bronx2245]

and pac came from the slum, look at where he's at now. im sure he didnt do all this by himself? you think?

Floyd came from the slum too, as have many fighters who have worked for Arum (and Don King). Mike Tyson should be grateful for the money he made under Don King, but doesn't he have the right to be mad when he finds out he's been charged $10K a month for towels? It's a 2-way street. Arum makes money off of Manny, the same as Manny has made money from Arum's deals.

[jhacen]

Roach was saying how he was surprised at how much money Manny gave him for the Floyd fight and how he asked Manny whether he was sure about giving him so much

Now he's complaining about money when its probably just a matter of time before he gets paid

I remember that statement from him too! Roach was not doing his job during the Horn fight! He should not get paid! LOL!

[GodLike]

Salty......water

[BucaRican]

Ever since becoming a Senator Manny has not been the same guy. His focus is just not 100% on boxing. Combined with the fact that he is older, its just not the same. It's time to hang em up.

[WesternChamp]

Floyd came from the slum too, as have many fighters who have worked for Arum (and Don King). Mike Tyson should be grateful for the money he made under Don King, but doesn't he have the right to be mad when he finds out he's been charged $10K a month for towels? It's a 2-way street. Arum makes money off of Manny, the same as Manny has made money from Arum's deals.

floyd came from the slum??? you mean to tell me his pops and uncle wasnt pro boxers?????

and to the last bolded part, um, of course thats how it works. so once again you turn this into a haymon vs arum thing, and you were just talking about how pac fan's be defending arum but look at your last post, "i wonder how manny would have done with haymon".

i can tell you pac wont accomplish much with haymon because haymon aint gonna stick around with pac like how arum did. hate him or love him but you cant deny the fact that arum built and molded pac into the star that he is today, i dont think haymon or oscar would have done the same with manny nor put in the time and effort.

[iloveboxing2]

That's guilt right there!

[Steven Mccowan]

Hahaha to the ppl on here that compare the poor guy from bfe in phillipines to a guy from a college town in the midwest. Ppl really need to have more awareness of the world

[champion4ever]

He probably doesn't have the money to pay Roach. It's possible that he can't afford it at the moment because we don't how much money he has cleared since that fight. Bob Arum could have taken back most of the money that he guaranteed him.

[Bronx2245]

floyd came from the slum??? you mean to tell me his pops and uncle wasnt pro boxers?????

and to the last bolded part, um, of course thats how it works. so once again you turn this into a haymon vs arum thing, and you were just talking about how pac fan's be defending arum but look at your last post, "i wonder how manny would have done with haymon".

i can tell you pac wont accomplish much with haymon because haymon aint gonna stick around with pac like how arum did. hate him or love him but you cant deny the fact that arum built and molded pac into the star that he is today, i dont think haymon or oscar would have done the same with manny nor put in the time and effort.

His father and uncle were boxers, who didn't make a lot of money. Add to that, his father was NOT a good father! You might want to do your homework:

Floyd Mayweather Jr. found himself staring down the barrel of a *******. There were tears, then an unabashed wail that only added to the sense of foreboding that something bad was about to happen in his Grand Rapids, Mich., home.

Floyd was not quite two years old.

According to Rolling Stone, at the other end of a potential tragedy was a man known to all simply as "Baboon." Tony Sinclair was his given name, and a brother of Floyd's mother, Deborah. More importantly, to this story at least, Baboon was a business associate of the toddler's father "Big" Floyd, a small-time drug dealer and the first of three Mayweather brothers to rise toward the top of the fight game.

That Floyd Sr. never made it quite as far his younger brothers was the least of his problems on Jan. 21, 1979. Baboon had come into the house, not to threaten a child, but to settle things with Floyd Sr.

According to family legend, business had gone badly between the two men. Only one of them, however, was an accomplished enough pugilist to have taken the great Sugar Ray Leonard to a decision just four months earlier.

Floyd Sr. grabbed Sinclair by the throat at a local roller rink and sent him scurrying. When he returned to find "Big" Floyd in the home where they both lived, Sinclair had a 20-gauge friend and death in his eyes. Floyd Sr. had nothing but his young son, who he held by the ankles in front of him as the world's tiniest human shield.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1...aped-money-may

Who is this enigma, though? What has made him the phenomenon he is? In the most reflective interview he has given in a long time, Mayweather spoke this week of the pain that made him, for better or worse. "It was never a stable home," he said of life with his father and sometime trainer, Floyd Sr, who infamously once held baby Floyd by the ankles in front of him, a shield against the attentions of a gun-toting relative. "I would go back and forth between New Jersey and Michigan. Sometimes I would stay with my grandmother who would clean up offices and hotel rooms.

"My dad? I would see him when it was time to go the boxing gym or to run errands with him and, because he was a hustler, things could get a little wild sometimes. I had a rollercoaster ride and basically I raised myself. It was my older sister who made sure I got up every morning and went to school.

"I had three pair of pants, three shirts and one pair of shoes. The running water we had was cold so we would heat water on the stove. We never had a key to open the door and we would pop the lock with a butter knife. There were no lights in the building. It smelt of urine to outsiders who came in, but to me it never because I was used to it. People would say 'Oh, what is that smell. But I was used to it.'

"They built a hotel across the street and I would go and do back flips for $1 on the grass outside. I had a friend called James Brown and, when we had enough money from flipping, we'd go to Burger King.

"Every weekend I would go to another family member and I could call other relatives because [his grandmother] had a phone. I then went back to Michigan and my father would beat me for anything I did, even if I hadn't done anything. I used to pray for the day I could become an adult and get away from it. I got tired of getting beat.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/bl...contradictions

I bring up Haymon because many fights fans, after the Arums and Don Kings of the world, actually hate Haymon for how well-paid his fighters are! That's insane! Floyd's career took off like a rocket AFTER leaving Arum! Arum is a snake! I guarantee you Manny would've been better off leaving Arum for Haymon, before he fought Bradley the 1st time, definitely before he fought him the 2nd time!