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Quote Originally Posted by zhubin View Post
Pac has so many great match ups at 130 and 135...but he is wanting the payday of his life.
Ya, and what about that is wrong?

It's called "prizefighting" for a reason. These guys put their life on the line everytime they step in the ring. Pacquiao has every right to want to make the biggest payday of his life. That is, after all, why these guys fight: to make money. They don't fight just for the fun of it.
I have no problems with fighters making as much money as they can...especially in such a brutal and exploitative sport like boxing. BUT, there is a point where a fight enters a circus/joke level. Pac has plenty of money and he can make plenty more fighting guys at his own division. There are certain fighters(and i know ALL fighters want to make money) that almost always take on the best fights available. Pac was certainly one of those fighters and you can even say Oscar was as well. But it gets to a point where you are disrespecting the intelligence of fight fans and the blantant money factor overides everything else. So maybe i am coming from a purists point of view, where i don't need to see ridiculous match ups that reek of just making $$$.