Pacquiao the clout chaser

Your timeline is way off:

March 16 2019: Pacuiao was ring side for Spence vs Mikey. Said he wanted the winner. Spence wins.

March through August: Crickets. Mind you Pacquiao was the WBO champ at the time and it would have been for unification.

September 2019: Spence fights WBC champion Porter and wins. Again, nothing from Pacquiao mysteriously.

October 2019: car crash

December 2020: Spence beats Garcia in a comeback. For the 2nd or 3rd time now Pacquiao calls out Spence.

February or March 2021: Somehow Pacquiao is in talks with Crawford for the 50th time.

May 2021: Crawford fight falls through and Pacuiao finally signs with Spence.

The crash did not have anything to do with Pacuiao remaining silent after the Mikey Garcia win. It hadn't happened yet. The crash had nothing to do with Pacuiao remaining silent after the Danny Garcia win because he had made a comeback and looked good. The pandemic is not a valid excuse either as several big fights had been made such as Whyte vs Povetkin.

It seems pretty clear Pacuiao was probably interested, but his team was displaying weasel like behavior and likely waiting to see if Spence had been slipping using both Garcias as a measuring stick. Before the Mikey fight people accused Spence of being a 1 dimensional slugger, and then he put on a clinic outboxing the supposedly more technically skilled Mikey with his jab. Then it's a coincidence that team Pac said nothing for half a year? Then after the car crash everyone was curious if Spence would be shot and sure enough he beat the breaks off of Danny and all of a sudden team Pac was quiet again. The fight was not made until the Crawford bout fell apart.

So using a little bit of deductive reasoning and common sense, I think Pacquiao was the one who eventually insisted and his team kept trying to steer him away from fights with Spence and Crawford. Remember they didn't even want him fighting freaking Mathyse or Thurman, they were terrified and had no confidence.

 

Yeah, just me and thousands of people who heard Roach and Arum say they don't like the idea of Crawford vs Pacuiao:

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“Arum wants Pacquiao to fight Crawford,” Roach said. “I’m a little bit concerned about that fight. It’s a tough fight. Crawford’s a young guy, coming up and so forth, and Manny probably has seen his best days behind him. But I will still train him and get him ready for that fight, if that does happen. And they’re pushing for it, so it might. But it’s the same situation there. It’s a different generation. We’ve gotta still compete with the younger generation. And I think Miguel will be able to do that, for sure.”

https://www.*******.com/roach-arum-pushing-pacquiao-crawford-fight-concerns-me--122974

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You guys either have selective hearing or you're living under a rock. These interviews and sound bites have been happening for half a decade now. Roach and Arum were petrified of Crawford.

 

He didn't sign because there was no money.


"By Chris Williams: The fight negotiations between Manny Pacquiao and Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford have imploded after the Ab Dhabi investors failed to come up with the money for the fight.



Pacquiao had signed his portion of the contract, but Crawford didn’t sign his part.

But with the money never materializing from the Abu Dhabi investors, it makes it immaterial that Crawford didn’t sign. There was never any reason for him to sign. Oh well, it’s no to the next one for Crawford."

https://www.boxingnews24.com/2021/0...ad-funding-from-abu-dhabi-never-came-through/


Why would he sign a fight with no money?

I give Pacuiao credit for signing to fight Spence. But you're delusional if Pac signing and Crawford not singing is some sort of moral/macho victory. There was no money.

 

What part of there was NO money for the fight do you not understand?

 

The only one who seems to be confused is you. There was no money, therefore no point in signing. It's called "prize" fighting.

WTF does Floyd have to do with this thread? This is why talking to Pacuiao fans is less enjoyable than watching paint dry. You cannot stay on topic even with a gun to your head.

 

There is nothing else to think about genius. There was NO MONEY FOR THE FIGHT. Would you go to a job interview and accept the job after HR informs you that the company has no money?

Who gives AF about what Floyd Sr said? They fought already, your guy lost, and this has NOTHING to do with the thread. You're awfully close to going on ignore, do you have ADD or something? Stay on topic.

 

I'm not the moron dodging questions and celebrating because one fighter signed a contract for an event where there would be no money. Nor am I a moron constantly changing the subject and bringing up Floyd every 5 minutes because Floyd lives in my head rent free.

If you honestly think I'm upset that the best are fighting the best you really are stupid. I'm glad that Pac is stepping up.