Boxing fans’ demand and its timing are not random. Indeed, the test must be calculated to exert the deepest anguish these fans have, for “Floyd Mayweather, Jr. versus Manny Pacquiao” must take
place at
the crux of the history of boxing.
“The power of boxing’s appeal to public may dissipate if Pacquiao hangs up his gloves,” said James Williams, a boxing promoter based in Houston, Texas.
“Pacquiao may still have two to three more fights before he finally retires. But, the question is: When will his next fight be?” said Bob Arum, Top Rank CEO and promoter of Pacquiao.
Pacquiao must have been sandwiched by two opposing forces: boxing and politics. In between these two confluences is the pressure to make more money out of boxing, simply to supplement his squandering tendency to indulge with the demand of his elite friends and the politics they offer. Of course, except for his wholesome projects to build livelihood programs and hospitals in his own district and other areas of concerns in the Philippines. Despite the pledge of the Philippine President Benigno Aquino III, Pacquiao may have to squeeze out of his own finances, least to say that his own foundation, Manny Pacquiao Foundation, has been nearly regarded as non-operative and lack of functional structure as reported by insiders.
“He is really not happy when he knew of the condition of his finances . He has a lot of unnecessary expenditures, and I would not mention these things because many could be hurt,” said an insider from Team Pacquiao.
