Because if Arum is going to claim not enough people know who Andre Berto is in order to make a fight with Manny then Arum needs to go back and explain why he made a fight with Joshua Clottey. Berto has been fighting on HBO for years. He's had plenty of exposure via that network. As of today, Pac-Berto would exceed 700k buys, probably by a good margin. And let's talk about well known Shane Mosley. Let's talk about his dismal 100k pay per view buy rate in September, with a full HBO PPV behind him. Once again proving that Mosley is nothing but B side material. Mosley does have more name recognition than Berto but either way it's Manny selling that fight. I think an increase # of buys for Mosley instead of Berto would be negligible, if at all. But the premise that Berto isn't well known enough is laughable.
Clottey had fought zab judah,cotto,margarito,Corrales,Margarito,Baldomir.Berto has fought sweet **** all and deserves a pac payday as much Jan Zaveck or Vyacheslav Senchenko (here is a great idea about berto fights a top ten ww)
I don't know if those tough European fighters would agree losing their time with someone like Emanuel Pacquiao.:think You should ask Herbzg.
it's not about who's deserving. It's about name recognition. You appear to be arguing that Clottey was more known in March than Berto is right now. I don't agree with that. I'm aware of who Clottey has fought.
I dont know if it has come to your attention yet but pac only fights guys who are weight drained shot or catch weight, and even now pac can make 142/141 easy as he eats 7000 calories a day yet fredie said he has to fight at 147 ifr he wants to fight manny. Can you idiots not see they will not fight unless a serious and ovious advantage is in their favour.
jan zaveck has a bigger name then berto gets bigger tv ratings, gets bigger gates and has a whole country behind him
How hard would it be for Berto to unify with Zavek or Senchenko? Instead of fighting guys like Hernandez or Urango, he could've unified the division by now and had some clout. Arum should insist Berto take a fight with Clottey before he even be considered for fights with Pacquiao or Cotto. Margarito says he wants to fight in March, how about Berto-Margarito at 150-154?
If Pac was black, you'd be all over his nuts too. You probably wouldn't even like Mayweather then. That's ****ing sad :-(
He made a fight with Clottey because people demanded that Pac should fight Clottey rather than Cotto because many thought Clottey won that fight. Berto hasn't had a single major fight and you want his very first step-up to be against none other than the best and P4P#1?
I don't think that most novice boxing fans, who rarely follow the sport would know who Berto is. I of course, think that he's a very good young fighter, but he's no match for Pac.
Clottey is more well known. He gained fans in the Margarito, Judah, and Cotto fights. Berto also has no story other than being a whiny little girl with a temper. The guy was disqualified from the Olympic trials and boxed for Haiti instead. He was put on his ass by Cosme Rivera and his corner decided he needed a glove change and took a very long time to do so. He complained about the Quintana knockdown. He's been deducted multiple points for holding.