Freddie Roach wants Pacquiao-Mayweather bout to take place in Dallas or Dubai

boxon123 · Jan 14, 2012

bballchamp11 said: ↑

cool story roach

let's not forget you and your entire crew are against the best American fighter. why don't we make the biggest fight outside of America too while we're at it?
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The US is Broke anyway so what does that matter. Satellite travels anywhere. Ever heard of Zaire? **** people are dumb on here. Whats the chance of you buying a ticket anyway?

Farmboxer · Jan 14, 2012

I agree with Roach.....................

bballchamp11 · Jan 14, 2012

boxon123 said: ↑

The US is Broke anyway so what does that matter. Satellite travels anywhere. Ever heard of Zaire? **** people are dumb on here. Whats the chance of you buying a ticket anyway?
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Big fight helps Vegas. Money gets multiplied. Vegas apart of the broke US. Not as dumb as your mother when she was unable to find the directions to the local abortion clinic. dumb ramblings of a dumb American. simple thoughts of no ideas simple man

timmyjames · Jan 14, 2012

iceman71 said: ↑

let freddy roach work on game plans and not where he wants fights to happen at
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probably a good idea, since khan and pac both looked like **** in their last outings

RobertV77 · Jan 14, 2012

I'm surprised someone from that camp would throw up a roadblock like this!

RSBonos · Jan 14, 2012

Cowboys stadium would be an easy sell out. Dubai would suck.

dendy · Jan 15, 2012

Maybe cowboys stadium would be a good idea, however for me time has ran out and May 5 at the mgm should be the date.. Starting to float around multiple ideas at this time smacks of dodge manoeuvres of the highest order, coupled with the inconsistencies of late leads me to believe top rank are negotiating with someone else and have never taken mayweathers offer seriously.

CYoungblood95 · Jan 15, 2012

Vegas is the fight capital, end of story...all of this posturing is to deflect the attention from the fact that Bob is blocking the fight. And some people are gulliable enough to agree with this nonsense. Now if it was Floyd's team saying this you'd see pictures of ducks everywhere and people claiming he's moving the goal post. But I guess whatever suits the agenda.

danw1117 · Jan 15, 2012

it has to be in vegas because floyd got his senance delayed due to the money it makes for vegas. Just another duck

Phat_Ass_Dude · Jan 15, 2012

KarlBrandt said: ↑

Roach wants Pacquiao-Mayweather bout to take place in Dallas or Dubai

January 14th, 2012

By Chris Williams: Freddie Roach wants to see the Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight happen but not on May 5th and not at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Roach prefers that the fight take place later on in the year because Pacquiao and Arum are already negotiating a fight with another opponent that Roach wont say the name of.
When the fight takes place, Roach prefers that the venue be either the huge Cowboy stadium in Texas or in Dubai. Roach likes the Cowboys stadium because it can fit 100,000 fans and he thinks a fight of the magnitude of Pacquiao-Mayweather would actually fill the stadium. Dubai would be a terrible venue for the American public. Maybe it would be good for Pacqquiao but what about all the U.S fans? It would self serving fight venue for Roach, Pacquiao and Arum but a lousy ones for U.S fans to have to fly to and deal with the tremendous cost and hassle of airline travel in a bad economy. Good for Pacquiao, Arum and Roach, but bad for U.S fans. Speaking with AFP, Roach said Dallas would be the best place to put on that fight in the U.S. because you could get 100,000 people in the Cowboys Stadium, but Dubai is the best moneywise.
Roach likes Dubai because of the tax situation and supposedly there is a group of investors in Dubai that would put up a huge chunk of money to have the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight take place there.
I dont know that Mayweather would be on board with having a fight in Dubai and it wouldnt be fair to U.S fans to have to fly all the way to Dubai to see that fight.
In this economy, we might see only the wealthiest and/or most devoted of Pacquiaos fans willing to travel that far to see the fight. I cant see a lot of Mayweathers fans being willing to pay all that money to travel to Dubai in great numbers. The audience could be mostly people from Dubai and Pacquiao fans. I can see a lot of empty seats in a fight in that venue.
As far as the Cowboys stadium, Mayeather has reportedly been against fighting in that state and prefers to fighting in Las Vegas where he lives. I cant see him changing his mind about just because Roach, Bob Arum and Michael Koncz want to squeeze as much money they can out of the fight. I also dont think 100,000 fans will come all the way to Texas to see it.
Maybe Pacquiaos fans would but I cant see a ton of Mayweathers fans being willing to come all that ways. My guess is the crowd would be lucky to reach 40,000 to 50,000. With those kinds of numbers, it would be completely stupid to put the fight in Texas. Youd have a half empty stadium and Arum and Roach would be unhappy about it. The Antonio Margarito vs. Pacquiao fight took place in the Cowboys stadium in 2010 and brought in only 41,000 fans.
This comes after Arum had been talking about it possibly drawing 70,000. He really overestimated how many fans would be interested in seeing that fight and I suspect it would be the same for Pacquiao-Mayweather. The location would be all wrong. You wouldnt be able to get a large Hispanic crowd to come to that fight unless Arum packed the undercard with nothing but Mexican fighter like Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. But I still dont see it even breaking 50,000. Roach would look foolish afterwards given his 100,000 fan prediction.
I think instead of getting greedy and dreaming of stuff that has little basis in reality, Roach and Arum need to put the fight in Las Vegas and stop making excuses for Pacquiao needing more time. Theyre thinking too about making as much money possible and its resulting in the fight not getting made. They want it to be perfect so that every last nickel can be squeezed from the boxing public but then fight cant happen because theres never enough time when youre dealing with someone that has to have it exactly perfect before theyll agree to fight. I think Mayeather should steer clear of the whole lot of them because its just not worthy it. Too many headaches with this bunch. Let them keep putting Pacquiao in with Arums fading Top Rank stars of yesterday until he retires.

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Clarky Cat · Jan 15, 2012

By the time this fight is made the venue won't matter because NO-ONE will give a **** anymore.

KO-KING · Jan 15, 2012

they will get a lot of money in Dubai

oli · Jan 15, 2012

Laughable ****.

Cool story Roach. How about you and pacquiao get serious about making the fight happen.

Badbot · Jan 15, 2012

Pacquiao sold 45 000 tickets against Clottey and Mayweather still pulled more cash against Mosley at MGM.
I think it was around 12 000 tickets.

garymcfall · Jan 15, 2012

Dubai get the **** outta here, this is yet another bit of bull**** thrown into the mix by Pacquiaos team, honestly these people are going to blow the richest fight in boxing history for everyone. I'm starting to hope one/both of them get knocked out in their next fight so that everybody involved in this fiasco can kiss goodbye to their payday.

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