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THE PACQUIAO-MOSLEY FIGHT: SUCK IT UP PEOPLE, AIN?T NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT! PhilBoxing.com Thu, 23 Dec 2010   LOS ANGELES -- As soon as news broke late Tuesday afternoon that Manny Pacquiao and his promoter Bob Arum has chosen Sugar Shane Mosley as his next opponent for a fight set at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas on May 7, 2011, numerous articles came out on the web criticizing the choice. That was of course expected given the fact that many people thought Mosley was the third choice after Juan Manuel Marquez and Andre Berto. Unfortunately these people failed to read between the lips of Arum or better still forgot to look or rather refused to see at the only reason why fights happen. The old fox from Top Rank has been indirectly saying all along that Mosley may be the chosen one. Why? Simple. Boxing after all is about money. Everything else is secondary. Otherwise they would not call it a ?prize fight?. Hello! Had the Golden Boy Promotions not been too greedy to ?demand too much money to deliver Juan Manuel Marquez?, the fight would have been made. How can they demand cash for Marquez over and above what he made when he fought Mayweather when they themselves did not give that amount to Marquez? The GBP must be nuts to expect Arum, who is their arch-rival to do what they did not! Had Marquez stood his ground and demanded from the GBP to make the fight at all cost, including a reduced guarantee for him, we would be writing about a Pacquiao-Marquez fight today. But, we can not fault Marquez that much all together. He is getting up in age and he knows his days as a fighter are numbered. Thus, he might as well ask for heaven and earth for a fight with Pacquiao so that he will have enough cash left when he retires in a few years. Sadly, the Marquez-GBP tactics back fired. Now they are left outside looking in. In so far as Andre Berto is concerned, it?s a ?no brainer? why he was not picked. The guy is just too unknown to deliver the right number of buns to fill the 17,000 plus MGM Grand Garden Arena. How many people would you think will fly in from Haiti or even the East Coast where Berto is now based to see him fight at Las Vegas? Correct me if I am wrong but from what I heard he can not even fill out an arena in his adopted hometown when he fights locally. Never mind that he is supposed to possess that ?one-punch? capability to knock-out his opponents. With a fight with Pacquiao at 147 lbs, he would not have a prayer regardless of what experts say about his chances against Pacquiao. Mosley on the other side of the coin, made it easier to make the fight happen. He hired J. Prince who did not have any bones with Arum to make the negotiations difficult. And, Mosley himself contributed immensely to the whole event by pulling out from the Golden Boy Promotions. Without Oscar de la Hoya and Richard Schaefer on the scene, Mosley suddenly became a palatable choice. Never mind if he is pushing 40. Never mind if his two last fights were less than scintillating. The fact of the matter is he still has the capability to attract the people to see the fight live and/or pay the PPV better than what Marquez and Berto can put together. Remember the less than 5000 people that came to see Marquez fight Michael Katsidis? In addition, without the GPB in the picture Top Rank can keep all the revenue for the company. There is no need to share some revenue with GBP. But most importantly, Mosley was not greedy. He settled for a reported ?mere $5M guarantee? plus some PPV upside that still would make him earn something like a cool 8M if the PPV hits more than an agreed number. Not bad for his retirement and for his ex-wife Jin. Certainly, that is far less that what Marquez wanted as a guarantee. In addition, whatever Mosley will get from the PPV upside is a hell a lot less than the $5 for every PPV sales over 500,000 buys that Marquez demanded. So there you are people. The best that you can do is just suck it up, lay back and just enjoy the fight. No matter what you say or write, no matter what you do, the die is cast. The Pacquiao-Mosley fight is going to happen. Nothing would minimize the energy Uncle Bob will put on to make this fight succeed as expected. The old fox knows what to do in times like these. Remember what some of you did when Margarito was chosen the last time around? Arum did not budged and made the fight happen. Need I remind you how much money that fight made? HBO has signed -in and will provide a good amount of money to televise the Pacquiao-Mosley fight on PPV. The MGM Mirage people have done like-wise and will pay a huge site fee. And, people particularly the ?Pacnuts? will fill out the MGM Grand Garden Arena and spend money on booze, the tables, the slots and everything else associated with Las Vegas. ?Pacnuts? by the way are not only Filipinos. Pacquiao now has a following across a great spectrum of people- the Asians, Latinos, the African-Americans and what have you. They will all be there. I guarantee you that. Those that can?t will be buying PPV much like they did with the Margarito fight. I would not be surprised if many of those who wrote negative stuff about the fight will be there as well perhaps hoping to see the event flop. Deep within them however, they would really like to see what an ?old man? like Shane Mosley can bring to the table in an attempt to derail the Pacman express. Click here for a complete listing of columns by this author. Click here for a complete listing of this author's articles from different news sources. |
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