Pacquiao vs Mayweather: Arum Will Make a Deal With Floyd For a Share of His Revenue

I guess that’s why he’s The Boss.

True, but how many other sports stars do you know that can cut those type of deals? Thats what makes it unique.
Think Urijah Faber makes hot dog money? I doubt it.

Yeah, I thought as much about the guarantee spiel. This fight isn’t exactly going to struggle at the gate or on PPV…

Mayweather Promotions can co-promote

I’m not certain that they really can. They’re not actually a registered promotional company. And I really mean I’m not certain — I mean, obviously he can put the name on the poster like always and take some money, but would Bob fight that?

We need to rabble some more apparently.

I never had a clue what the terms were for Clay/Liston I or II…but loved the drama arong the fights.

Nor did I care much about the money trail as it grew larger and larger through closed circuit (Frazier/Ellis up through Leonard Hearns etc).

I just paid what i had to and salivated waiting for the nights when I could watch the fights.

But everything today is so much more transparent. We have so much information, most of which is noise. The cable networks and 24/7 365 news cycles to blogs and so on, every word is transmitted and dissected.

Most of the time, it is pretty obvious that what is reported and discussed has little and/or real resemblance to the actual facts and/or ‘truth’. As a New Yorker for most of my life (born Philadelphia, now LA), I was startled at first but am now innured to the reality that even Page A1 of the ‘paper of record’, the NY Times, not only gets itwrong but the get it so late that anyone and everyone who is in the business not only already knows the story but they know far more than what has been reported.

Numerous profiles and articles on subjects in my field (artists, museums, etc) are written for a general audience that are intelligent but so cursory tothe insider they are almost meaningless short of the publicity the provide for the industry.

Back to this story. Boxing more than almost any other sport is more of a business than a sport. It is about entertaining fans who pay money to watch fighters fight for money; thus the term Prize-Fighter.

Far too much of this story in particular is being played out in public but both Arum and Mayweather are great promoters sowho am I to say that theb ‘nonsense’ may not just be today’s way of promoting BIG money fights. In fact, it probably it.

Hell, Kim Kardashian has no substance (she’s a nice pretty and ambitious girl for sure) but look at her empire.

The fact is that these guys are paying chess in pubic but the deal, if it is struck, will be in private. No one has expressed that more than Floyd himself. To dates, he wants no middlemen. ’We can work this out between us. No Middle Men. Just you and me".

Unless that has changed, I still think that if he and Manny decide that they can really make more money fighting each other (by far) than by fighting other people, this fight wlll get made. Between Mayweather and TR’s duBoef.

Let’s look at the progress that has been made lately. I think we are getting close® than ever.

Which we can discuss…….

Not when the cn leverage other people’s at far less risk.

That is what all the third party ‘investor’ noise has been about. Floyd, Koncz, and to a lesser degree TR have been surveying the lanscape, listening to the crazies and the more real third parties propose what the can andare willing to do.

Obviously, no one has thus far put forward a realistic proposal lest their would be more action…or a bite at least.

TR has the resources to guarantee the money but they want and will demandtheir cut. So would anyone…certainly any private equity third party.

I dont know why, if GB wants to play (promote Floyd) this time around, they have not lined up finacing on their end to put some ‘skin in the game’ toguarntee their participation.

Floyd may or may not have is own cash money but he is a celebrity star athlete and no celebrity is accustomed to and/or willing to pay for anything that other people have paid for them in the past.

From the time burgeoning superstars are working/playing, going to school/college (ie football, basketball, etc), some one else is picking up the tab.

Floyd aint picking up his own unless there is no one else to do so. That is how smart and shrewd he is and has been.

I think someone will but I think it’s a tougher go than we think. Banks and Fund Managers have been burned by the Entertainment moguls (Goldman Sachs, Weinstein Brothers) and there is less liquidity than befiore for these kind of ventures.

We shall see.

I think someone steps up….but I would also not be surprised that if withing the next six months, Floyd lets TR promote this fight. They are after all the best in the business…… with the deepest pockets

I mean, sure they could, but then the fighters get less money because the third party would need to take a cut in addition to every other cut already getting taken. It would be wasteful.

One further point I believe is now operting powerfully is that Floyd must fight on May 5 or therabouts unless the DA is willing to reserve justice and re-schedule his incarceration again.

Get some rest. And enjoy the summer.

Maybe if he buys himself out, for a LOT MORE than Floyd bought himself out for years back.

Why?

Cotto Chavez. Stay tuned. If everyone does their jobs you may very well see it