Rod Nazario, business manager of International Boxing Federation junior featherweight champion Manny Pacquiao demanded and received $200,000 for Philippine TV rights for Pacquiao?s planned Nov. 15 battle with featherweight king Marco Antonio Barrera plus the southpaw?s next two fights, no matter what the outcome of the first fight may be.
Nazario also astutely leveraged the interest shown by ABS-CBN Studio 23 and Viva Sports, which had telecast several of Pacquiao?s fights through the years to get the rights holders ? Solar Sports ? to support his weekly boxing show ?In This Corner? which airs over RPN-9 at 2 p.m. on Sundays.
