Comments Thread For: Pacquiao-Thurman Deal Can Be Done Quick, Says Gibbons

[WholeSoul75]

I wonder if this is still the game plan as Floyd says.. broner/Spence/ let the fight build then pvm2?

"I think the best fight for Pacquiao.... I told Al Haymon that the best fight for Pacquiao is probably the Adrien Broner fight. And then we got Errol Spence. They are talking about Spence or Crawford.

"We are not doing that [rematch] right now. We have to let that fight build and then down the line let that fight happen."

[Bronx2245]

yeah, i'll match my fighters against his and clean out his whole stable! that's how you "get back". instead of having fans make excuses 'oh oh haymon feelings hurt oh oh".. is haymon 16? this is business! haymon will be making money is he not?

I'm sure he would match his fighters against theirs...on Showtime or Fox!

A Booming, Divided Boxing Business in 2019
ESPN
January 9, 2019

Every major broadcast entity that is now involved in boxing is currently aligned with a promoter. They are now, in essence, tied together at the hip. By signing with a Top Rank, for instance, you are basically signing on with ESPN. Currently there is an arms race of sorts as rival factions look to strengthen their own stables and their programming lineup...

Every network has the services of at least one marquee boxer, and with the investment they've made in that boxer, they will obviously frown upon them performing on any other stage but their own. Exclusive deals that have tied down boxers to a specific network have been around for years, and this isn't a new dynamic. What's new is that there are now more players involved, jockeying for their place in the pecking order...

"We've been around long enough to know the politics will always stop certain fights from happening when there's cross-network politics. So when you're talking about in the past, it was no different with HBO and Showtime. Now it might be DAZN, ESPN or ESPN+ or Fox," said Hearn, who in the past has been willing to do co-promotions, though that was before his association with DAZN.

"I do like to think that we have a reputation for making more fights with other promoters than anybody else," he continued. "But of course, everybody's strategy is the same: Deliver the biggest names and the biggest fights to your platform, your broadcaster. It's not just that one's nasty or vindictive, that's just the name of the game. If I've got Oleksandr Usyk or Anthony Joshua and I'm putting him on ESPN, well, what's the point in DAZN being with us and giving us a budget if we can't deliver our big names to their platform..."

"It's not that anyone's really trying to scuff up the sport or be difficult, it's just their jobs," Hearn went on to say. "Haymon's got to deliver for Showtime and Fox, I've got to deliver for DAZN, Bob's got to deliver for ESPN.

"So they won't move their talent, nor will we."

http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/i...-business-2019

It is what it is! Grow the f--- up!

[Nightfall]

Pac-Man vs one-time 🥊💰

[Lefty0616]

Pacman should play his cards right....and continue to call out Mayweather. Any other fight for him seems unnecessary at this point. He should only look at other matchups after he fights Floyd.

[SHOOTALLCLOWNS]

I wonder if this is still the game plan as Floyd says.. broner/Spence/ let the fight build then pvm2?

"I think the best fight for Pacquiao.... I told Al Haymon that the best fight for Pacquiao is probably the Adrien Broner fight. And then we got Errol Spence. They are talking about Spence or Crawford.

"We are not doing that [rematch] right now. We have to let that fight build and then down the line let that fight happen."

then the rematch will never happen. if pac cleans out the whole stable froid is definitely not coming back he'll be to scared to lose LMAO.

[SHOOTALLCLOWNS]

Pacman should play his cards right....and continue to call out Mayweather. Any other fight for him seems unnecessary at this point. He should only look at other matchups after he fights Floyd.

true that's the biggest money fight for both of them. pac is really only looking for that one last mega pay day before he calls it quits.

[thack]

OK. but whoever was to win wouldn't prove much. Manny's about done and Thurman even given his long lay off looked terrible.

[Bronx2245]

Bob Arum admits he killed Pacquiao-Crawford fight, didn’t want to see Manny take damage
Bad Left Hook
Will Esco
January 29, 2019:

On if he has any concerns about Pacquiao taking on young champions in their prime

“Well all I would say is that I just hope that he doesn’t get hurt. You know, when you reach a certain age it becomes more dangerous than when you’re younger, because the cranium doesn’t enable you to absorb blows if you’re older than if you we’re younger. When you’re younger it has a lot more resilience than when you’re older. Now that’s not invariably the case, that wasn’t the case with George Foreman, but pretty well it’s been the case. So you just have to hope that — Manny Pacquiao’s a wonderful person, he’s brought lot to the sport, he does a lot for his country, and you wouldn’t want to see him get hurt.”

[B]On if he would have any reservations of making a fight between Pacquiao and Terence Crawford:/B]

“Well I killed the fight. Yeah. [I wouldn’t want that for Manny] because I know how it would end...Not that I knew that it would end in serious disability for Manny — that I wouldn’t know — but as a fight it would only end one way.

“Forget my emotions, I wouldn’t wanna see him take that kind of damage because it might affect his future life — quality of his future life.”

https://www.badlefthook.com/2019/1/2...ny-take-damage

[IceTrayDaGang]

I wonder if this is still the game plan as Floyd says.. broner/Spence/ let the fight build then pvm2?

"I think the best fight for Pacquiao.... I told Al Haymon that the best fight for Pacquiao is probably the Adrien Broner fight. And then we got Errol Spence. They are talking about Spence or Crawford.

"We are not doing that [rematch] right now. We have to let that fight build and then down the line let that fight happen."

lol.. if pac fight spence before floyd and beat spence then aint no need for a floyd rematch anymore.

[Bronx2245]

Roach on Pacquiao: If we can’t get Mayweather rematch, Thurman my second choice

https://www.badlefthook.com/2019/1/2...-second-choice