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  • Money99
    Hall Of Fame
    • Sep 2002
    • 12695

    #1

    Bob Arum - "Mayweather asked for $100M to fight Pacquio"



    Arum's a notorious liar so who knows if this is true.
    I'd like to hear from a reliable source first.
  • fistofrage
    Hall Of Fame
    • Aug 2002
    • 13682

    #2
    Re: Bob Arum - "Mayweather asked for $100M to fight Pacquio"

    Originally posted by Money99
    http://www.eastsideboxing.com/news.php?p=27454&more=1

    Arum's a notorious liar so who knows if this is true.
    I'd like to hear from a reliable source first.
    I'm sure he's said it before.....Even if it was in jest.

    Hey Money, how much would it take for you to fight PAC Man?

    Hundred Million Dollars........
    Chalepa Ta Kala.....

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    • Vast
      MVP
      • Sep 2003
      • 4015

      #3
      Re: Bob Arum - "Mayweather asked for $100M to fight Pacquio"

      For a 100 Million dollars i'd fight Pac, Mayweather and all of Top Rank boxing at the same time!!
      "I'm addicted to Video Games, and i chase it with a little OS." -Winston Churchill

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      • hickhitchell33
        Banned
        • Mar 2011
        • 75

        #4
        Re: Bob Arum - "Mayweather asked for $100M to fight Pacquio"

        I don't believe he'd fight him even for that figure.

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        • randombrother
          Banned
          • Oct 2009
          • 1275

          #5
          Re: Bob Arum - "Mayweather asked for $100M to fight Pacquio"

          Originally posted by Vast
          For a 100 Million dollars i'd fight Pac, Mayweather and all of Top Rank boxing at the same time!!
          For that money I'd fight them all at the same time too, wake up the next day and fight them all again.

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          • Flightwhite24
            Hall Of Fame
            • Jul 2005
            • 12094

            #6
            Re: Bob Arum - "Mayweather asked for $100M to fight Pacquio"

            Originally posted by Vast
            For a 100 Million dollars i'd fight Pac, Mayweather and all of Top Rank boxing at the same time!!
            Hell for $500 million dollars I would think about it.
            The poster formerly know as "FLIGHTWHITE"

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            • fistofrage
              Hall Of Fame
              • Aug 2002
              • 13682

              #7
              Re: Bob Arum - "Mayweather asked for $100M to fight Pacquio"

              Originally posted by randombrother
              For that money I'd fight them all at the same time too, wake up the next day and fight them all again.
              Probably wouldn't wake up the next day, but at least you'd have the money to cover your hospital costs...Well maybe not, after King and Arum took their cuts.
              Chalepa Ta Kala.....

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              • acts238shaun
                MVP
                • Dec 2005
                • 2714

                #8
                Re: Bob Arum - "Mayweather asked for $100M to fight Pacquio"

                Especially King. The guy that portrays his character in Lights Out - B.K. Word - has him dead on, minus the hair.

                The fact that Gerald McClellan is in the shape he's in financially is one of the reasons I won't shed a tear when King is dead. I'll feel for his soul, but karma is a train that always shows up on time. The fact that he is losing fighters to Arum, Golden Boy, etc. is an indicator that he doesn't have the stable of fighters or the pull he once did.

                I read somewhere yesterday that Mayweather told Don King for 100 mil he'd fight PacMan and a few others - a package deal for 20-25 mil a fight.

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                • fistofrage
                  Hall Of Fame
                  • Aug 2002
                  • 13682

                  #9
                  Re: Bob Arum - "Mayweather asked for $100M to fight Pacquio"

                  Originally posted by acts238shaun
                  Especially King. The guy that portrays his character in Lights Out - B.K. Word - has him dead on, minus the hair.

                  The fact that Gerald McClellan is in the shape he's in financially is one of the reasons I won't shed a tear when King is dead. I'll feel for his soul, but karma is a train that always shows up on time. The fact that he is losing fighters to Arum, Golden Boy, etc. is an indicator that he doesn't have the stable of fighters or the pull he once did.

                  I read somewhere yesterday that Mayweather told Don King for 100 mil he'd fight PacMan and a few others - a package deal for 20-25 mil a fight.
                  I won't shed a tear for Gerald McClellan, he was a rotten individual, so I guess Karma caught up with him.

                  But back on topic. Mayweather needs to get busy or he's going to end up broke with with legacy being of ducking good boxers in their prime only to fight them on the back end of their career.
                  Chalepa Ta Kala.....

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                  • acts238shaun
                    MVP
                    • Dec 2005
                    • 2714

                    #10
                    Re: Bob Arum - "Mayweather asked for $100M to fight Pacquio"

                    Originally posted by fistofrage
                    I won't shed a tear for Gerald McClellan, he was a rotten individual, so I guess Karma caught up with him.

                    But back on topic. Mayweather needs to get busy or he's going to end up broke with with legacy being of ducking good boxers in their prime only to fight them on the back end of their career.
                    I honestly wasn't aware of that. You've always been a straight shooter on here, no bull, so I will take your word for it. That being the case, you might just be right on that.

                    As far as MoneyMay, you are saying what people have been telling him for the last five years. He needs to fight Cotto, Margarito, Paul Williams, Sergio Martinez as well as PacMan. He beats all these I have him right there will the all time WW's. Of course no one in his entourage will tell him that, they are just yes men I am sure.

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                    • tyreeii
                      Rookie
                      • Dec 2006
                      • 138

                      #11
                      Re: Bob Arum - "Mayweather asked for $100M to fight Pacquio"

                      Originally posted by fistofrage
                      I won't shed a tear for Gerald McClellan, he was a rotten individual, so I guess Karma caught up with him.

                      But back on topic. Mayweather needs to get busy or he's going to end up broke with with legacy being of ducking good boxers in their prime only to fight them on the back end of their career.
                      I would not go that far as to say the man deserves his current ailments. Yes, he may have done some rotten things but I don't think he raped anyone or violated their basic human rights. Come on, you gotta think before you go that far. I would not wish his ailments on my worst enemy, nobody wants to be 80% deaf, have no short term memory and unable to speak clearly. You should also think abt the people who have been impacted by this (his family) and how much they gave up to care for him. At least be considerate of their loved ones regardless of your disdain for the individual. I highly doubt you know him personally so the information you heard was probably secondhand.

                      On the Don King front. The guy is a crook and I despise what he does BUT how many CEO's do much worse than him and they get away scott free??? That being said he did settle out of court with Terry Norris when they threatened to read the fine print on the contract he gave Terry. He basically said, "there is not need to read that, I will pay him the $28 million dollars he wants." That tells you how crooked he is!!!
                      The ultimate goal of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.
                      - Leontyne Price

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                      • Mr5000
                        Banned
                        • Dec 2010
                        • 335

                        #12
                        Re: Bob Arum - "Mayweather asked for $100M to fight Pacquio"

                        Originally posted by tyreeii
                        I would not go that far as to say the man deserves his current ailments. Yes, he may have done some rotten things but I don't think he raped anyone or violated their basic human rights. Come on, you gotta think before you go that far. I would not wish his ailments on my worst enemy, nobody wants to be 80% deaf, have no short term memory and unable to speak clearly. You should also think abt the people who have been impacted by this (his family) and how much they gave up to care for him. At least be considerate of their loved ones regardless of your disdain for the individual. I highly doubt you know him personally so the information you heard was probably secondhand.

                        On the Don King front. The guy is a crook and I despise what he does BUT how many CEO's do much worse than him and they get away scott free??? That being said he did settle out of court with Terry Norris when they threatened to read the fine print on the contract he gave Terry. He basically said, "there is not need to read that, I will pay him the $28 million dollars he wants." That tells you how crooked he is!!!
                        I suggest you find and read "War Baby:The Glamor of Violence" by Kevin Mitchell. After I read that,what sympathy I had for McClellan went out the window. Remember how evil everybody felt Michael Vick was for doing what he did,well Mr.McClellan bought a labrador retriever, taped it's mouth shut and let his pitbulls maul it to death. Why did he do this? Just so his pitbulls could get a taste for blood. Like fistofrage said, McClellan is a rotten individual and I don't feel bad for him at all.

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                        • Money99
                          Hall Of Fame
                          • Sep 2002
                          • 12695

                          #13
                          Re: Bob Arum - "Mayweather asked for $100M to fight Pacquio"

                          Originally posted by Mr5000
                          I suggest you find and read "War Baby:The Glamor of Violence" by Kevin Mitchell. After I read that,what sympathy I had for McClellan went out the window. Remember how evil everybody felt Michael Vick was for doing what he did,well Mr.McClellan bought a labrador retriever, taped it's mouth shut and let his pitbulls maul it to death. Why did he do this? Just so his pitbulls could get a taste for blood. Like fistofrage said, McClellan is a rotten individual and I don't feel bad for him at all.
                          YIKES! That is a horrible story!

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                          • Mr5000
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                            • Dec 2010
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                            #14
                            Re: Bob Arum - "Mayweather asked for $100M to fight Pacquio"

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                            Nigel Benn's 1995 world title victory over Gerald McClellan brought all the contradictions of boxing together in one moment of clarity. It was beautiful and ugly, thrilling and frightening. And in the decisive round, those who saw it knew the intensity had gone too far. This is the real story of the night that left a fearsome fighter irreparably brain-damaged

                            Kevin Mitchell
                            Sunday 4 November 2001
                            Observer Sport Monthly


                            In Las Vegas in 1994, when Gerald McClellan was preparing for his rematch with Julian Jackson, the one-eyed hitter he'd stopped the year before to win his world middleweight title, he was in his hotel room. He was bored, anxious. He got a video out and slipped it in the machine. The fight was only a few hours away. It was the biggest of his career. There was nobody about and the world champion settled down to get his kicks.As the tape rolled, Stan Johnson, McClellan's coach, knocked on the door.
                            'He's some guy,' Stan recalls. 'I think he'd be in his room before a fight, gettin' a little ***** or somethin' before he go to the fight ...well, Gerald be in the room this time watchin' tapes of dog fights. I thought he be watchin' a sex movie. But I goes into the ****in' room, Gerald's got a tape of himself watching the dogs with a stockin' over his head where you can't see who he is - in case somebody find the tape no one know it's him!'
                            This is how Stan saw Gerald and the whole dog thing: 'So he got this black Labrador, just went to the dog shop, told the man, "I need a dog to take care of, I'll take this Labrador home," and the man say to the dog, "Yeah, you got a good home now," and Gerald takes the dog home. He takes the dog down his basement and tapes the Labrador's mouth, takes his pit bull Deuce and says "Get him!" He lets Deuce start eatin' the dog up while he's timing it on a watch, see how long it would take his dog to kill this dog. And I said to Gerald, "Hey, Gerald, this Labrador wouldn't beat Deuce, no way, so why did you tape his mouth shut?" And he said, "Coz I just wanna see how fast my dog would kill him, for one, and, for two, my dog's a championship fighter and you don't need no dog scratched up and bit up by no dog, by no accident. This is like sparrin' for my dog, this is like my dog need to taste blood every day. My dog need to kill somethin' every day, Stan. Just like a fighter need to spar every day, he don't need nobody bustin' him up when he got a big fight comin' up. He just need to bust somethin' up hisself. Right?"'
                            It was impossible not to be mesmerised by the rhythm of the telling, and by the tale itself. It was a kind of rapping, old-style ghetto cool-speak, all mixed up like a cheap stew, bits of profanity chucked in to pepper it up. Comfort language served up by a badass dude.
                            Gerald got his comfort between the sheets. Any time of the day or night.
                            'It was nothin' for him to get some ***** just time afore he go in the ring, even, you know? So that was the main problem with Gerald, it was girls was his problem. But Gerald had a dark side to him, because he was a violent, violent, violent, violent, violent person.' I had to check: that was five 'violents'. Stan was just making sure.
                            'His whole life was about fightin' and all, pit bull dogs, he pay lotsa money on dog fights, he took money from his fights and he bet. It weren't nothin' him go down the projects in Chicago and bet $10,000 his dog beat your dog. And a bunch o' gang bangers with guns and drugs all come down to watch...'
                            Donnie Penelton, the Black Battle Cat, he remembers the dogs. He was there too on those dark nights.
                            'Yeah, Gerald's my first cousin. We grew up together. I'm older than him, and from the age about three, four, he hangin' around buggin' me from about then, yeah. He was a nice, young scary kid. He was a maniac with the pit bull dogs, man. He was like one hisself. Very aggressive. Very crazy. He had like a yard full of pit bulls. We'd mostly take 'em to Detroit with us, to the camps. I didn't like watchin' them dogs fight like that, I guess ...Kinda difficult, but them dogs, they goin' to fight naturally anyway. You know what he say, though? He always say, "Goddam, if I gotta fight for a livin', I be damned if them dogs ain't gotta fight for a livin' too. I gotta buy 'em their food. If it's a big fight and they win, they oughta be buyin' their own damn food."
                            'He brought Deuce down to fight this guy's dog in Chicago one time, and me and Donnie, we went down there with him ...Gerald was drivin' his Mercedes Benz, a green car with caramel-coloured seats and he had this big, beautiful truck behind where he carried his dogs in cages. So Deuce, he winnin' this particular fight and all of a sudden the dog got on him and he started rippin' Deuce's throat out. So I'm kinda, like, lookin' at Gerald and I was seein' the 'spressions on his face, you know, and just as his dog was gettin' beat, Gerald told the dude, "Stop the fight!" And the dude said, "No, man. No, man, you started the fight." And Gerald says, "You stop this mother****in' fight! Stop the fight! I quit, here your money."
                            'Gerald had a nice green leather suit on, he picked his bloody dog up, threw his dog across his shoulder, blood run all down his ****in' coat. Instead o' puttin' him in the truck, in the cage, he put him in the back seat o' the Benz, mad as hell, rubbing his dog, cryin' up and down the road, tellin', "I ain't never gonna do this **** no more, I don't know why I did this, I keep a mess o' snakes afore I put a dog through this again." You know?
                            'Yeah, Gerald he had some companionship about this particular dog. He'd raised this dog, and this dog, he'd killed a few. This ****ing guy, man, once his dog lost a fight and he was $7,000 down. He turns around, he looks at me, and the other guy says, "Hey, you want to wash your dog off before you put him in your truck?" Gerald just pulls a nine-millimetre out of his back pocket, aims it at the dog's head, busts a cap to the dog's head, and says, "Put that mother****er in a plastic bag. I don't need 'em if they can't fight no better than that. I don't need no mother****in' dog that can't fight." This the kinda guy he was...'
                            I knew before I started that some of this story wasn't going to make easy listening, but this kind of information was confusing. It was not just hard-core boxing stuff; it was the sound of streets I didn't really know. But Gerald and Stan felt at home there. So did Tyson. Listen to Iron Mike's angrier outbursts: he is shouting at the largely white world and he is saying, I'm going home to the streets and you can't come. It's the place that Don King calls home. He's another big hitter comfortable with the argot.
                            Gerald wasn't a million miles from Don King in his attitude to humanity. King had brought grief - and money - to a lot of lives. He was cold too. Gerald hadn't killed anybody, as King had, but he had that streak in him, an icy vein of ruthlessness. He had to have it. He knew what was demanded to survive in the 'baahxin' bizness'. If you didn't have a hard outside, they'd eat away at your insides and spit you out. That's one thing he learnt from King.
                            Gerald was not shy of conflict. Used to go looking for it, often. It was part of his protective shell. Getting in the ring and throwing his well-schooled punches for three, regulated minutes per round was a run in the park for Gerald - after all he'd seen outside boxing. His personality was not informed by his trade, but by his life at large. The boxer is just the product. A celebrity. Television packages him and sells him. The G-Man. The Dark Destroyer. Iron Mike. The Hit Man. The Beast. Midnight. Vicious. The Black Battle Cat. Nightmare. All names invented to disguise the man underneath, not describe him.
                            I could only wonder what else they got up to. Stan, unsurprisingly, had a million stories.
                            'We in Florida one time,' he says, 'we in trainin', just before we go to fight Nigel Benn. Gerald says, "You wanna go to the mall to do some shoppin'?" So we go to the mall with the champ to do some shoppin', and we come outta the mall, and in Florida you got these pretty little pelican birds, what you call 'em? Flamingos, that's it. They just walk around the mall tryin' to make it look pretty. But Gerald comes out, and says, "Right, watch this, watch this!" And there's this flamingo walkin' around on the road. Gerald gets close and makes a dip with the car, he speeds the car up real bad and - boom! - he hits the damn flamingo! And the flamingo flies up all over the grille! And Gerald, he's laughin', like it's all in Disneyland, and he goes flyin' round the block and he looks at the grille and he looks at the bird feathers and he pulls the bird feathers and pulls the bird outta the grille, and, it's like, "Damn! Did you all see that? Did you all like that?" And then he was on his way out - and you know, you can go to jail for doin' that sort of ****, you know? That's a state bird! You know what I mean?'
                            I know what you mean, Stan.
                            'So then Gerald goes around again! He already run over a couple of pelicans and then here come another pelican and you know, like, this mother****in' pelican must be wonderin' what's goin' on here, like? He must be like a brother or sister, like, they all busted up. And then Gerald, he says, "Look at this nosy sonofabitch, watch this." And - bam! - he rammed over that one. I said, "Gerry, you gotta stop this, man, we gonna go to jail." And he tried to make it look like it's an accident, that the bird was there, like ...The kid was a violent kid. He loved killin' ****, he loved dog fights, like it was evident, he was want to go out like he went out...'
                            Like Deuce. Except he made Deuce quit.


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                            some guy, isn't he

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                            • tyreeii
                              Rookie
                              • Dec 2006
                              • 138

                              #15
                              Re: Bob Arum - &quot;Mayweather asked for $100M to fight Pacquio&quot;

                              Originally posted by Mr5000
                              I suggest you find and read "War Baby:The Glamor of Violence" by Kevin Mitchell. After I read that,what sympathy I had for McClellan went out the window. Remember how evil everybody felt Michael Vick was for doing what he did,well Mr.McClellan bought a labrador retriever, taped it's mouth shut and let his pitbulls maul it to death. Why did he do this? Just so his pitbulls could get a taste for blood. Like fistofrage said, McClellan is a rotten individual and I don't feel bad for him at all.
                              5000, I see your point on that and I am not denying the type of twisted mentality it takes to participate in dog fighting. But what I do know is that (unlike Vick) Gerald stopped fighting dogs after one of his favorite dogs was savagely beaten. I read that, through tears, he had them stop the fight, picked his dog up carried it out and put it in the back of his Mercedes, cried all the way home, stitched the dog up himself, nursed it back to health and said he would never fight dogs again and he didn't. I guess he got his comeuppance? The real tragedy is that he cannot tell his son or other young impressionable kids not to participate.

                              I am not saying he is any less of a savage individual but I am saying he came to his senses on his own, unlike many other criminals, and that in itself deserves a good deal of credit.

                              Lastly, I would hate for anyone to live like that, even Hitler, I do not receive any joy out of someone's extended misery; brief misery, yes, but it gets old after a while. But like I stated before, I feel bad for his caretakers, they have lost a lot over the years. I am not saying I am holier than thou, it is just how I feel. Frankly dog fighting is horrible but I would rather they focus on ppl who have (or potentially) kill humans via DUI or DWI, that represents total selfishness and a disregard for life.
                              The ultimate goal of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.
                              - Leontyne Price

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