This has nothing to do with loyalty, Manny is a controlled athlete just like every other and Top Rank calls the shots. He can fly to Vegas and sit down with Floyd for a month, but it wont matter one bit. Why? Because aside from Top Rank's autonomy over Manny, Floyd answers to Al Haymon and then any Haymon decision must be able to work for GBP. If Top Rank or Al Haymon don't want the fight it wont happen. If they do want the fight, but GBP doesn't like the deal it wont happen. The issue this whole time has been Top Rank's ability to run circles around Golden Boy and Haymon in the press which led to dominating public perception. Because of the ineptitude of Haymon and Golden Boy there has never been pressure on all sides to make the bout happen. I'm not saying Haymon & Schaeffer aren't smart guys, but they simply don't have the media manipulation skills or contacts that Top Rank/Arum has. To use another prime example Sergio Martinez couldn't get a fight with Mayweather, Manny or Cotto because Lou DiBella never spent the resources needed to turn him into a star which would've forced Top Rank and GBP to give up their cash cows.

@Intrepid- They are getting him for lack of payment and penalties for the period of 2006 through 2010 according to reports. The IRS feels he either understated income, overstated expenses (along with deductions & credits) or both during that period. Just because Manny filed a return for those periods it doesn't let him off the hook if the IRS feels there are material issues. I don't know what type of agreement the U.S. has with the Philippines, but most major countries have treaties in place to protect them from people shipping money around to avoid repayment. Combine that with local tax issues, Manny is in for a fight he wont win.

If Pacquiao doesn't pay up he may not be able to make any money to help himself or Bob Arum. Even if he does fight government may take all his money. He can't just leave Arum though. Arum would have contractual rights to block the fight if Pacquiao tried to do it outside of him...and Bob would sue him until he lost mote than he could gain.

I just dont know how the IRS can tax a person who aint even their citizen... pac aint american, aint a citizen of the united states nor an immigrant otherwise he cant run and be a philippine congressman, why would he pay taxes to a government that aint his... he did his gigs in the US, the irs can and slready taxed those gigs... so whats this $18M the IRS is suing pac for...

any tax lawyers here?

@cortez

wtf, you must be a tax lawyer, cus i called for one... one question though, if youre justin beiber and an organizer hired you to perform in a concert somewhere in timbuktu, do they tax the concert? the income of the concert? the organizer? can they tax your talent fee?

I mean, how can you tax a foreign performer who flies away after every gig?

@ Intrepid

Are you serious? Do you not know how tax systems work? You pay taxes wherever you make money. Citizenship doesn't matter. If you are going to benefit from a society you have to pay that society back. Fighting in the U.S. made Pac one of the richest boxers in the world. If he never came to America and stayed in the Philippines he would be nowhere near as prominent as he is.

Leaving or staying with Arum makes no difference. Floyd wouldn't fight Pac period. Hell Floyd would give out his belt, shorts, underwear, etc for Pac just to leave the FOCK away.

I was just curious because Pacquiao supposed to be flying to Vegas to talk to Floyd face to face about a fight because it's such a big money fight ,is this due to Pacquiaos dire financial issue? .....Would he leave Bob Arum to make this fight happen in order to stay out of jail?