arum, given his decades of experience in the industry, and jmm who were gettin close on beatin pac on every rematch, while pac was losing focus on boxing being a politician and a tv host, arum knew jmm will eventually get pac... why didnt arum blocked the way so the 4th fight wont happen if he doesnt really want his top cashcow to lose??? but hey, he got other cashcow prospects, arum is always ready... and the best loss if pac should lose must be against mayweather...
every coconut head will think this is elementary....
i just dont know how flomos can complicate it w/o looking like a fool
I think there was three primary reasons why the Mayweather v Pac fight didn't happen:
1) Greed - Both parties wanted the bigger share of the pie. Floyd correctly stated that he was the PPV king, and team Pac countered with their guy was the reason that this would be the biggest fight ever staged. Neither camp was prepared to drop their stock to make the fight happen.
2) Drug Testing: This is a grey area, an area saturated in smoke and mirrors... Floyds camp wanted regulated dope tests right up to the fight date (If this can be believed?), the Pacman camp wouldn't allow testing in the run up to the actual fight due to superstitious reasons, although they were open to testing immediately after the fight.. (Again, it depends if you want to believe this storyline...?). I have always considered the whole doping test scenario as nothing more than a smoke screen...
3) Risk of losing - Without a doubt, Pac was well matched at the time for Floyd, he would have gave him a difficult nights work. This was not your usual run of the mill contender - Pacquiao was a real threat to Mayweather and his legacy. If Floyd was putting all on the line - he wanted paying properly for it.
As far as Bob arum is concerned.. I don't think he ever considered that Marquez could defeat Pacquiao, it was never an option in his mind. Arum was merely keeping his man busy, as the same time as raking in a few dollars too...
As a businessman, and as a boxing realist... Arum knew that a fight with Mayweather was a sink or swim fight... If Pac won, there was untold riches to reap in a rematch.... But if Pac got beat.. The golden goose would stop laying, dollar bill wrapped, golden eggs right there and then...
Arum was protecting himself from a future loss of earnings... That's why he wouldn't sell out to the Mayweather camp.
The Marquez defeat can be managed... It was a flash in the pan, an annomoly so to speak. Arum can rebuild Pacquaio's reputation again, and keep increasing his stock - especially with opponents like Rios. ( A Mayweather defeat could never be retrieved.)
If the Mayweather fight did take place, and Pacquiao was defeated - There is nowhere to go. Bob Arum collects the last Pacquiaio check and rides off into the sunset...
As things stand, Bob Arum will collect on the Rios fight, probably another two paydays after that, and then the last fight for Mayweather would have the fans screaming / demanding a Pacquaio fight!!
(At which point, Arum realises, that both boxers are shot at, and couldn't care less who wins, as the real winner is...... Bob Arum!
It's an ego thing, both Arum and Mayweather are so full of themselves their ego's eclipse both boxing and business. Amazing to see such stupidity at the top levels of the boxing business, but it's glaringly obvious to any who look at it that it boils down to a personality conflict between Arum and Mayweather. On some level it might just be that Arum doesn't like Floyd, much like Larry Merchant doesn't like Floyd. The whole hip hop/thug image turns off a lot of older White males, and whether you call that bigotry or just a dislike of a particular attitude, it is real and it effects behavior.
Arum is in the business of making money. He tried to make the fight and Mayweather refused. It was not Arum or Pacquiao. They agreed to all of Mayweather's demands and he still refused to sign the contract.
A promoter is not afraid of his fighters losing as long as he gets paid.
you know flomos have small logic...
well according to some floyd nuthuggers here, arum doesnt want pac to lose against mayweather so he blocks the fight from ever happening?
i cant find any proof arum is guilty of the charge... cant help but use logic
logically:
both floyd and arum are professed businessmen....how come they cant set aside their personal grudges against each other for the biggest payday of their careers? arum and delahoya worked together .....and between floyd and arum, it's arum who's been in the business for so long and must be the most profit oriented between the two, in other words, arum is more to "money" than money-may... he makes fights happens for the sake of profit
can anybody please enlighten me cuz logic seems to block the way for me to understand why arum is to blame for the fight not happening. i always blame floyd..=(
