Now that HBO has landed the most gargantuan of mismatches in Pacquiao-Marquez III, Bob Arum is pulling out all the stops, throwing Manny Pacquiao on as many advertisements as possible in hopes of getting the casual fan to tune in. Time Warner’s affiliate channels will broadcast commercials leading up to the fight, Pacquiao and Arum will be guests on “Piers Morgan Live”, and anything and everything will be done to potentially squeeze out as many buys as they can. Arum did this earlier in the year for Pacquiao-Mosley in hopes of smashing Floyd Mayweather’s numbers, but he still came up a wee bit short (we’re still waiting on those official final numbers), which isn’t a good thing considering that Mayweather-Mosley only had the usual four episodes of 24/7 to help promote the bout.
While his methods are a great idea, we have to understand that, just like Pacquiao-Mosley, this is an attempt to get people so incredibly interested in the fight that they’ll overlook how overmatched Marquez is going to be come fight night, and that there is a very real possibility that we’ll have another Mosley disaster on our hands. Pacquiao himself is one of the most mundane people to interview, next to Oscar De La Hoya, due to his seemingly limited English skills, which is no fault of his own, but that means Piers Morgan will more than likely have scripted questions when doing the interview. All in all, it’ll be a fun time for you casual fans, but guys like us on FightHype already have an idea on what’s going to go down.
