AGAIN, not to brag but I knew it would happen. Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather are going to fight as this was, like or not, written in the stars. No one can ever stop it from happening, not even Mayweather.
Mayweather had tried his best to stop it?but only for show.
In truth, he just merely wanted to haul in more money, rake it in as the greediest of the greed in our midst love to put it. Delay is a business trick, too, you know.
He is called The Money because he loves the lure of money.
Man is by nature weak. Poison he loves. Template was Adam.
Cleopatras roam the Earth forever. Eve triggered that.
Mayweather is no exception. He?d be the last to discard that cloak of pretense.
How can one resist $120 million in, at the most, a 36-minute job atop the squared, roped, ring?
That?s what Mayweather is going to pocket even before he faces Pacquiao on May 2. Boxing is gambling?s second home that the cardinal rule is, money down first before a deal is sealed.
So enormous is the fight money that it would absolutely go to the record books as the biggest steal ever in Las Vegas. For both fighters (actors?), it?d be the jackpot each of a lifetime in Sin City.
Like all those steeped in the machinations of boxing, Pacquiao also knew all along he could clinch this fight. Once he dropped his guard and surrendered every detail of the fight?from gloves to blood-testing to choice of venue?to Mayweather, his dream date was on.
What? Pacquiao?s $80-million take is peanuts compared with Mayweather?s $120M?
Are you nuts?
Convert $80M to pesos and Pacquiao will easily laugh his way to the bank?perhaps his rolls of laughter crispier than Mayweather?s.
Know why? Mayweather will spend his fortune as it is: In dollars.
Spending it in peso, Pacquiao?s loot may last him, maybe, four lifetimes?that is, if he has truly junked gambling, boozing and excessive doling to mendicants. And, of course, don?t forget the so-called sword of Damocles dangling over his head, courtesy of Kim Henares the no-nonsense Tax Chief.
Whatever, and remember, this is just Fight One. Imagine how much money they could yet stash away once a Fight Two is held. As the only certified superstars in the business, the sky?s the limit.
