manny did not seek to join gbp. the story was that gbp/oscar went to kidnap/pickup manny at the airport after flying 16hours from manila. oscar/gbp took manny to a restaurant gave him a suitcase with $500,000 in cash and told him to sign the contract. pac was with only a friend who's his wife's cousin who happens to also be his lawyer that didn't know all of manny's signed contract. gacal did not intervene. pac with only a 3rd grade level education and was still making 300-500k at this time didn't know better than to sign the contract and take the money. oscar's plan backfired, manny was still under contract with tr.
"The figures written a Nevada contract are not necessarily the real number for big PPV guys. They get most of their money off PPV generally. So if Manny's "official" purse is $8 million fine. But he is guaranteed in his contract with Top Rank (which is not something the commission would have or release if it did) something like $20 million or whatever. The money is the money. One of the reasons for the disparity is because Manny is not a US citizen and is often paid a large amount of his money through his Filipino promotional company and deals in the Philippines for things like the television revenue there. So while it looks like a big difference it is not in reality." "So folks can keep on drinking the kool aid. But they dont get how the business actually works when it comes to fighters from overseas. I once covered a world title fight in Vegas with a champion from South Africa in say about 2002. His Nevada contract for a world title fight said his official purse was like $1,000. But he was making more like $50,000 because of the TV money from South Africa. You can do anything with numbers. What is written on the Nevada paper for big time fights isn't worth the paper it is written on," - Dan Rafeal