What does it mean to sign with Haymon for Pacquiao

What does it mean to sign with Haymon for Pacquiao

It's official. The great Filipino Manny Pacquiao himself announced last Monday that he would now work with director / advisor Al Haymon.

Meaning? Well, that means that for the second consecutive fight after the cancellation of Lucas Matthyse, which he dethroned as the welterweight titleholder of the Word Box Association last July through a seventh round TKO, Pacquiao will be dancing on the ring without the blessing of Top Rank, Bob Arum, his promoter a year and a half during his 23 years of professional career.

It also means that the current member of the Philippine Senate will now have the opportunity to face the best and brightest fighters in the 147-pound division, a privilege that Pacquiao did not get under the leadership of Arum since his stint in the welterweight class with Miguel Cotto's 12th round in 2009.

The Hall of Fame promoter faced him in three fights against Timothy Bradley, two fights with Juan Manuel Marquez and one with Mayweather, but before that, the only man to win world titles in eight weight classes could only To get ahead of Joshua Clottey. , Shane Mosley, Antonio Margarito, Chris Algeiri and Brandon Rios to preserve it as Arum's first cash cow.

Until Philippine pride gives up its belt to Jeff Horn of Australia in July 2017.

The formidable list of likely opponents of Pacquiao in the last few months of his career includes owners of welterweight belts, Errol Spence Jr., Shawn Porter, Keith Thurman and former titlist Danny Garcia. These fights would not only improve the profile of these young activists, but also show what remained in the 40-year-old Pacquiao gas tank on 27 December.

To begin under the agreement to be signed on Nov. 7, Pacquiao will face American Adrien Broner on Jan. 19, as proposed, for his WBA crown, most likely in Las Vegas, his first in the United States. United since November 2016, when he recovered the 147 pounds. Plum he lost to unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. the year before.

If Pacquiao was to overtake Broner, the plan was to associate him with Mayweather Jr. in what might be the Mayweather-Pacquiao II blockbuster.

The mere thought of it makes people sigh with a collective groan. And it's hard to blame them. Many believe they have been cheated of $ 100 for ordering the pay-per-view for the so-called "fight of the century" in 2015 after a five-year negotiation in which Mayweather won the medal of the year. gold. He broke all the financial records and both went to their bank with hundreds of millions of dollars in their pockets.

Although the proposed second service is not supposed to draw as well as the first fight, it would still be sufficient for each fighter to generate a nine-digit payroll for the time he / she occupies inside the circle. square.

But this weekend, Mayweather told TMZ that he had advised Haymon to confront Pacquiao with Broner, then with Spence and eventually with Terence Crawford, before the Las Vegas native fights for the first time. against his greatest rival. Some took the news as Mayweather was playing games and once again dodging Pacquiao, considering how handsome he was when he pummeled Lucas Matthysse for that he won by knockout in seventh round in July.

Mayweather is a smart businessman, though. He is more and more interested in making everyone believe that he will not attack Pacquiao anymore. The man says "Money" loves money more than any athlete on the planet and realizes that one last fight with Pacquiao will be the last payday of his illustrious career.

In the end, it all comes down to money. Nobody would admit it, but it's the truth. Under Arum's cut, the only big payments Pacquiao had left were those of Crawford and Vasyl Lomachenko.

Pacquiao is likely to do more with Peter and be confronted in the two best fighters of the pound to the pound of the planet.

Add to this that he will get another very substantial pay day with Mayweather and in a passing fight against Spence. Pacquiao, when he has the right people around him in the final stages of his legendary career, can ride the white horse, a financially sound man for the rest of his life.