Could the Pac shocker be an Arum masterstroke?

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  1. john garfield

    john garfield Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I had Pac winning nine rounds, at worst, MH
     
  2. brando

    brando Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Arum is an smart ass when it comes to making $$$.
    Las Vegas is always the winner.
     
  3. theboss

    theboss Well-Known Member Full Member

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    :patsch This whole planet is bull**** my friend . They fight bogus wars in the name of profit . Do you honisly think its so hard to fix a fight ?
     
  4. SJS19

    SJS19 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Mind if I ask your opinion on the whole 'Pacquaio was un focused because he was issued with divorce papers' thing?
     
  5. Moses Hightower

    Moses Hightower We're related. Full Member

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    I don't think it is as easy as people make it out to be. This isn't the 1940s. It can be done, no doubt, but that shouldn't be the first conclusion people come to after a bad decision.
     
  6. theboss

    theboss Well-Known Member Full Member

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    :smoke I hate to break it to you but its just as easy now as it ever was . people will shut up when threatened or bought off like they always were . And as easy as it is to expose fraud it"s equaly as easy to brand the exposers as conspiracy nuts . it works both ways . Money was stolen last night from betters to fight buyers . This wasn"t an honist product .
     
  7. exocet76

    exocet76 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I think Arum wins whatever happens.

    What is it Charlie Sheen used to say "I'm winning, I'm Bi-winning"

    I was watching the fight again today with a boxing mate of mine, and noticed Arum ****ing creaming over Bradley when the scores were read out.

    I don't do conspiracy theories as most of the time it's just BS.

    I do think Arum took a calculated risk knowing he has options whatever the conclusion of the fight was.

    This is the way business works, it's not about loyalty it's about opportunity.

    I must say this objectively, Bradley lacks the dynamics to be a big draw, he is a decent guy but he is not in the talent bracket of Mayweather or the explosive power of Pac.

    Pac still has a little mileage left, he will need to beat Bradley in a good manner in order to set up the UBER fight with Floyd.

    I think as a boxing fan that fight should have happened 3-4 years ago.

    I reckon Arum went to sleep last night with a nice warm glow in his tummy, the ****.
     
  8. doylexxx

    doylexxx Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    it was a great show promoted well with good theme song

    good fight too pity the judges ripped pac but arum did an excellent job

    stop hating on a man that makes money you welfare receipents !
     
  9. john garfield

    john garfield Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    From the '30s to the '50s, it was easy to fix a fight. Jim Norris, the front for "the boys' was boxing's 900-pound-gorilla.

    Now, it's more subtle. Top Rank generates a king's ransom in Vegas. The powers that be would be less than human if their judgement wasn't colored by that.
     
  10. john garfield

    john garfield Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I'd have to earn more money to be a welfare recipient, d
     
  11. ecdrm15

    ecdrm15 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    :lol:

    but no, seriously...:deal
     
  12. john garfield

    john garfield Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Can only speculate, like you, S. Haven't been with team Pac since the Marquez return.
     
  13. Moses Hightower

    Moses Hightower We're related. Full Member

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    If you're gonna say the fight was fixed, then you'd have to give to damn good reasons as to why. A lot had to be gained by Pacquiao winning controversially. If your best reason for why Arum would fix the fight is because he wants to keep avoiding FMJ, or he thinks Bradley-Pac II would make more money than Pac-FMJ, then...:-(
     
  14. Toopretty

    Toopretty Custom made Full Member

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    Pac/Bradley 2> Pac/Bradley 1. Arum just signed and sealed a huge future payday with people in outrage and Pac looking like a victim. Pac is already doing his part talking tough **** about getting a revenge KO. The general public eats this kind of **** up. Bradley is going to play his part. The only thing that can stop this is a full outside investigation into the matter. I bet my left nut Bob Arum will not support this action.
     
  15. drymarro

    drymarro New Member Full Member

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    Even casual/non-boxing fans who just watch the big fights can tell this was a highway robbery and how Bob Arum is rolling in the big bucks for himself. This is pretty much a shot in the knee for the sport of boxing in the eye of the general public.

    If it wasn't on life support it is now.