Pac cherry picked thurman or did PBC cherry picked pac?

[ruedboy]

After 2 years away from the sport and an unimpressive win against Lopez, the question was which Thurman would show up.
Thurman showed improvement but he's still not the fighter that beat Porter. That version of Thurman beats a 40 year old Pac, but kudos to both guys for a good fight.

[IceTrayDaGang]

On ESPN post fight, Teddy Atlas said Thurman looked bad against Lopez and that is why Manny picked him for the fight.

this is not about teddy. this is about PBC making the pac vs thurman fight. PBC cherry picked manny because they felt that thurman was going to win. so with a win over manny, when the thurman/spence fight comes around, the fight will be a lot bigger. manny is not a PBC fighter by the way. a win over manny, PBC can now promote thurman to be the next star.

[IceTrayDaGang]

a cherry pick gone wrong.

[QueensburyRules]

there seem to be some talks leading up to this fight saying that manny cherry picked thurman.. but now that the fight is over and looking back at it, was it the other way around???

did PBC made this match up thinking pac was gonna get mopped up? remember now, manny is NOT an actual PBC fighter, he's only on a 2-3 fight contract with them, where as for thurman, he's their guy.

so did PBC made this fight in hopes that thurman will win and have a win over a name like pacquiao for future promotion wise? the reaction from ellerbe, floyd, etc. just seems like they were secretly rooting for thurman.

look at when pac fought broner. in this fight, pac was view as the clear winner even before the fight even started, everyone had pac beating broner. leading up to this fight, floyd showed manny a lot of respect by visiting pac in his locker room, giving him last minute words, etc. because everyone knew pac was gonna beat broner.

but for the thurman fight, manny was actually the underdog at the beginning. this fight was always view as 50/50 with a good chance of pac getting ko'd. it just seems like others was hoping pac would get ko'd because a win over thurman at this point will boost manny's legacy up even more.

this is why for the thurman fight, floyd was nowhere to be found near manny, because if floyd was to be around manny like he was with the broner fight, then it will look like floyd is rooting on manny to beat thurman, the guy who floyd ducked. so this wouldnt be a good look for floyd.

this is why he was nowhere near manny or did zero interview regarding this fight. where as for the broner fight, broner was seen as a chump, so floyd being around manny means nothing since broner is not view as anyone important.

- -How many x you bust yer cherry today?

[KTFOKING]

this is not about teddy. this is about PBC making the pac vs thurman fight. PBC cherry picked manny because they felt that thurman was going to win. so with a win over manny, when the thurman/spence fight comes around, the fight will be a lot bigger. manny is not a PBC fighter by the way. a win over manny, PBC can now promote thurman to be the next star.

This has nothing to do with cherry picking. What you don't get is that Pacquiao pretty much chooses who he wants to fight. When the odds of this fight came out, Thurman was a very slight favorite. If the PBC could have had their choice of opponents, you think they would pick Thurman over Spence? Really? Thurman like I said barely fights and is always hurt. His chance to become a superstar has passed. Only WW with that ability on PBC is Spence.

Why can't it just be this was a very good match up on paper and it ended up playing just as that?

Another thing, PBC is paying Pacquiao 20M a fight. Can you imagine the type of loss they would take in his next fight had he lost and gotten brutally stopped? How do you sell him on PPV then?

[Larry the boss]

there was no cherry pick here period..good fight, good win

[IceTrayDaGang]

This has nothing to do with cherry picking. What you don't get is that Pacquiao pretty much chooses who he wants to fight. When the odds of this fight came out, Thurman was a very slight favorite. If the PBC could have had their choice of opponents, you think they would pick Thurman over Spence? Really? Thurman like I said barely fights and is always hurt. His chance to become a superstar has passed. Only WW with that ability on PBC is Spence.

Why can't it just be this was a very good match up on paper and it ended up playing just as that?

Another thing, PBC is paying Pacquiao 20M a fight. Can you imagine the type of loss they would take in his next fight had he lost and gotten brutally stopped? How do you sell him on PPV then?

because when it was manny geting accused of cherry picking thurman, i dont see the same energy from yall.. but when it's PBC being accused of cherry picking manny! all of a sudden, this was a good match up, no cherry picking, etc.

[IceTrayDaGang]

This has nothing to do with cherry picking. What you don't get is that Pacquiao pretty much chooses who he wants to fight. When the odds of this fight came out, Thurman was a very slight favorite. If the PBC could have had their choice of opponents, you think they would pick Thurman over Spence? Really? Thurman like I said barely fights and is always hurt. His chance to become a superstar has passed. Only WW with that ability on PBC is Spence.

Why can't it just be this was a very good match up on paper and it ended up playing just as that?

Another thing, PBC is paying Pacquiao 20M a fight. Can you imagine the type of loss they would take in his next fight had he lost and gotten brutally stopped? How do you sell him on PPV then?

making pac/thurman first then thurman/spence after (assuming thurman beats manny) will make them a lot money money!!!!

if they made pac/spence first and spence beat manny then the spence/thurman fight wouldnt be as big because who is thurman gonna fight while spence fights manny????

thurman already fought and beat porter!!!! this is why PBC cherry picked manny for thurman so that if thurman wins they can now make the thurman/spence fight a lot bigger.

[KTFOKING]

because when it was manny geting accused of cherry picking thurman, i dont see the same energy from yall.. but when it's PBC being accused of cherry picking manny! all of a sudden, this was a good match up, no cherry picking, etc.

Huh? When did I ever say this was a cherry pick match up either way? Did you not see the initial odds? It was close to a pick-em and quite a few writers picked Pacquiao to win this fight as quite a few picked Thurman to win.

[KTFOKING]

making pac/thurman first then thurman/spence after (assuming thurman beats manny) will make them a lot money money!!!!

if they made pac/spence first and spence beat manny then the spence/thurman fight wouldnt be as big because who is thurman gonna fight while spence fights manny????

thurman already fought and beat porter!!!! this is why PBC cherry picked manny for thurman so that if thurman wins they can now make the thurman/spence fight a lot bigger.

Spence vs Pacquiao is WAYYY bigger than any other WW fight PBC could make. Why do you think Spence was rooting for Pacquiao to win?