The networld lapped it up when a Mexican billionaire reportedly made Manny Pacquiao an offer nobody in his right mind will ever refuse unless he is Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Now, everybody who reported the offer only have red paint splashed all over their faces.
Not only was the said offer preposterous and outlandish. It is in fact non-existent, after all.
Anybody who offers Pacquiao a US$65 million guaranteed purse fighting a non-bankable fighter can only be described as a hallucinating prick no matter how much billions he has in his vault.
No one in boxing has ever received that amount of guaranteed money and Pacquiao is not about to receive one.
Oscar de la Hoya?s biggest guaranteed purse was US$25 million for fighting Mayweather. De la Hoya, if you care to know, was boxing?s biggest pay-per-view attraction and a true-blue American sports icon. Mike Tyson, for all his troubled boxing persona, never topped the US$25 million guaranteed money.
Of course, both earned more money after proceeds of the PPV sales were added to the upside of their purses. But not the guaranteed prize thing as Ilocos Sur Gov. Luis ?Chavit? Singson told a Philippine reporter who thought he got the biggest scoop of his career.
Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez might be a boxing champion, an undefeated one and a Mexican which make an intriguing sidebar story if he is pitted against Pacquiao as he was reported to be. But that will be all there is to it.
Alvarez is a non-entity in the PPV boxing scene for the moment although, at 21 years old, he is undefeated. He captured the WBC light middleweight crown vacated by Pacquiao by defeating Matthew Hatton, younger brother of Ricky Hatton who was pole axed by the Filipino boxing icon in two rounds.
A Pacquiao-Alvarez fight makes no sense at this stage.
It will not make as much money as Pacquiao?s biggest fight to date. To make one, the PPV sales should top the 2.5 million mark to make money for both Pacquiao and the promoter.
Not even de la Hoya made that much PPV sales although he sold 2.15 million when he fought Mayweather. To date, that historic fight is still boxing?s single biggest grossing event.
Richard Schaefer of Golden Boy Promotions who handles Alvarez bluntly said there was no offer coming from Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim while Pacquiao self-proclaimed adviser Mike Koncz said the talks did not go beyond a letter more than seven months ago which contained no offer at all.
That ?kuryente? of a story will soon be buried and forgotten. But it did serve its purpose. It came when there was dearth of story after it was announced that a third fight between Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez is going to happen in November.
It may also have forced Mayweather to again come out from the comfort of his Las Vegas mansion and fight youngster Victor Ortiz in September.
Now, boxing is alive again because the guy who is pained after he was dropped from the pound for pound list could no longer bear the thought of being ignored by the press.
He wants to continue to be relevant even though he does not intend to fight the man that mattered most.
Maybe Mayweather thought the non-offer was good enough for him to grab from Pacquiao.
Any takers?
