Manny rejects LA Staples Center

Pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao won’t agree to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and his adviser Michael Koncz believes Mayweather himself won’t agree to fight there either.

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Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer who called off a planned visit with Top Rank promoter Bob Arum and HBO Sports Ross Greenburg to Dallas, Texas to talk to the owner of the Dallas Cowboys new state-of-the-art stadium – Jerry Jones – at the last minute, announced that AEG had offered a $20 million guarantee to stage the fight at the Staples Center.

Schaefer’s decision forced Arum to cancel the trip which he said was an embarrassment since they hadn’t even given Jones the courtesy of listening to what his offer was. Arum told us he suspected there was something “fishy” going on.

Schaefer’s announcement of the AEG offer appeared to confirm Arum’s suspicion since AEG and Golden Boy Promotions have shared business interests.

When www.insidesports.ph, Standard Today and Viva Sports contacted Golden Boy Promotions vice president and international matchmaker Eric Gomez at 2:00 a.m. on Friday (Manila Time) he said “I have no idea of what’s going on because I have been in Chicago for the last few days attending to the Juan Diaz – Paulie Malignaggi fight and I haven’t had any contact with Richard (Schaefer) with regards to that (Pacquiao vs Mayweather). I know he’s still working on it. I don’t know what happened. I don’t have any information. Just call Richard at the office.”

When we called Schaefer, the operator at Golden Boy got back to us after connecting to Schaefer’s office and said “Richard is not taking any calls from the media regarding the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight.”

Koncz called us at 5:00 a.m. to tell us “Manny is not interested in fighting in LA. I’m going to advocate against it also for the simple reason that it's going to cost Manny an additional $3-$5 million in taxes to fight in LA. I mentioned to Manny that it looks like Staples Center and he said ‘I don’t want to fight in LA. I prefer Vegas and I didn’t even tell him about the taxes.”

Koncz said he would “give Bob Arum the courtesy of a call and if it's true it's Schaefer messing around then I’ll probably give Al Hayman a call and make sure he’s on the same page as us. I believe he is because I know Floyd doesn’t want to pay the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) any more than he has to and then it's time for us to put our foot down. The promoters work for the fighters, the fighters don’t work for the promoters.”

Koncz added ”the bottom line is Manny’s preference is not to fight in California and I haven’t advised him not to do it for tax consequences which is an 11 percent tax plus I haven’t confirmed the amount but there’s an additional special athletic tax for foreigners who take part in sports in California.”

 

Fraud Gayweather didn't want to fight at Dallas as well. :rofl

 

It'll be MGM almost certainly, and I don't think anywhere but Vegas is viable. It's about the money.

 

You left out Manny also turned it down...So whats your point of saying that for?:-(

 

because AEG which owns the staples center, also is the largest shareholder of GB.

 

it's gonna be in las vegas... why did your hero reject texas?

 

Manny turned down Dallas? link please.

 

where can u find out what the diffferences in taxes are in each state?

 

I'm kind of surprised that Pacquaio who trains in L.A. turned the Staples Center Down. He would have more of a home town advantage than Mayweather would.

 

Because I won't be able to get a ticket probably, that's why.

 

Because if they have it in Manilla, they PPV numbers will suffer terribly due to the time difference. Even Pacquiao would reject that idea.

 

Not to mention Manilla is a hole not even worth shitting on.

 

**** off idiot..i bet you never even been there ******

 

Well Staples center would not be a good venue considering higher tax on that place. That's why pac would outrightly rejects that. Imagine pac is not a american and how much was the tax cut on his earning in his fights in vegas, how much more in LA.

At least pac has practical good reason for rejecting the fight in Staples Center.

 

This fight is to big for MGM and Staples Center. I wish it was at Dallas Stadium or the Superdome.