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DE LA HOYA SAYS BARRERA GOT $3 MILLION
By Ronnie Nathanielsz PhilBoxing.com Mon, 22 Oct 2007

With all the fuss about WBC super featherweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez supposedly asking for too much money to defend his title against Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya has revealed that legendary Mexican Marco Antonio Barrera was paid a guarantee of $3 million for fighting Pacquiao by Golden Boy.
In an overseas telephone conversation with Viva Sports/Manila Standard Today, De La Hoya said the pay-per-view numbers was 350,00 adding ?it might be a little more, it might be a little less but its around that number.?
He said ?I don?t know exactly how much Manny Pacquiao did make at the end of the day but I do know that we paid Marco Antonio Barrera a guarantee of $3 million.?
Keith Kizer, executive director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission earlier disclosed that both Pacquiao and Barrera each got the same amount of $2 million as purse.
This meant that although Team Pacquiao continues to claim that he is the draw Barrera, whom he demolished in November 2003 and had a hard time against Rocky Juarez before losing to Marquez, Pacquiao received the same purse as Barrera.
It has also been pointed out that in contrast to Barrera, Marquez is the reigning champion who beat Barrera and held Pacquiao to a draw in their first fight and these factors have to be taken into consideration in negotiations for a possible Pacquiao-Marquez rematch.
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