If he keeps this up, they will soon be calling him Whacky Salud.
The Manny Pacquaio adviser seems to have forgotten that his expertise is in boxing and not in broadcasting.
Maybe Salud was only looking to score a few brownie points with Da Pacman with his publicly stated position that Megamanny should be getting a 65-35 revenue split for the May 2 fight against Ricky Hatton.
I see also that Salud revised that and told another reporter that a 60-40 split in Manny’s favor would suffice. Salud keeps repeating that even-steven is unacceptable.
“Manny is the attraction they should know,” Salud spouted.
Hey, Reckless Rex, get a clue. The Floyd Mayweather-Hatton fight did 850,000 USA PPV buys and a phenomenal 1.4 million buys across the United Kingdom.
Do you think that Pacman-Hatton, a Pinoy against a Brit, really has the same impact in America as Oscar-Manny or that Ricky-Manny will come close to the 1.25 million PPV buys the Dec. 6 megabout did here despite a faltering economy?
You may not have noticed but American television prefers having at least one American fighter in the main event.
Wake up and smell the lumpia, my man!
So you may ask why is Salud postulating, profiling and posturing?
Why? Because Salud is in Manny?s orbit and because he wants to kiss the hindquarters of the Pinoy Idol?
A down the middle, 50-50 money split for Hatton-Pacquiao is eminently fair, it says here.
I know the Philippines has a population edge (88 million to 60 million people) but the trillion dollar economy is in the UK.
Hatton has the huge financial strength of UK television behind him. I don?t know exactly what kind of money Filipino TV, which seems to all go into Pacman?s already bulging pockets, pays but it surely cannot match the money from the UK.
What if Hatton demanded that he keep all the UK TV money and let Pacman keep all the TV money from his country? That would not be fair to the National Fist, I admit.
The Solomonic way to settle it is to cut the jackpot down the middle. That’s doing justice to both of these hugeply popular and charismatic fighters.
Hatton cannot be treated as though he is David Diaz or Humberto Soto. This guy is a marketing monster in his homeland and many of his fans go where Ricky goes, their hands full with cash for tickets, beer, souvenirs, beer, fight programs and did I mention beer?
I’ve heard of Canada Dry but the Hattonites could turn Nevada dry.
The fight is going to be held in Vegas and the argument can be made that the ever loyal Hattonites, perhaps as many as 8,000 strong, will make the pugilistic pilgrimage to support their Mancunian hero.
Yes, some would say, but Megamanny thrashed Oscar De La Hoya while Hatton was beating up on the slapper Paulie Malignaggi.
Now you?re mixing up apples and oranges. That?s got nothing to do with how the jackpot should be split between Ricky and Manny.
I don?t want to say I hear Streisand crooning ?people who need people? in the background, but that isd the case right now with Hatton and Pacquiao.
They truly need each other as neither has a bigger match immediately in view.
That shy, retiring guy, Mayweather Jr., can afford to sit on the sidelines and look to return to the ring against the winner.
At some point this year, PBF will scratch that itch and come back to claim his rightful throne as the Pound For Pound Supremo.
Something tells me Mayweather will be seriously cheering for Pacquiao what with his having already beaten Hatton easily.
Now what would be the revenue split for Pacman-Pretty Boy? Here?s where it gets interesting.
I think Mayweather can demand and get a 60-40 split because the jumbo jackpot then might make Manny?s earnings against Oscar look like chump change.
I look forward to Whacky Salud?s fiscal pronounce when and if that situation occurs.
Stick to boxing and leave the ancillary revenue situation alone, my brother.
Leave that to Uncle Bob and Cousin Richie Rich. They might not know a left hook from a fish hook but they do know, far better than you ever will, what drives the bottom line.
You?ve got to know your limitations, my man.
